Media Poatan comes out against Wall and Stall

[KO Shotz]

Poatan is right, literally rewarding someone hugging someone else

I'm a Pereira fan, but it's not fair to say Ank was just walling & stalling to a victory. He was touching Poatan up & outstriking him.

 

[BarbellzNbacon]

Love alex, but he knew the rules going into the fight that he AGREED on by signing on the dotted line

 

[JustOnce]

Agreed. Especially when Poatan was walking backwards the entire fight.

Hopefully he backs up this talk the next time around..chama is chama! go hard or go home!

 

[Hezekiah]

The guy's talking about damage when he was frozen stiff in that fight, despite his opponent standing with him for the vast majority of the fight.

 

[Hymen Crusher]

It's boring as hell but rules are rules. Can't just stand there either

 

[Trabaho]

Faking a mma fight into stand and bang cause you lost to a superior grappler

There should be no stand ups

 

[Motivated BJ Penn]

But Poatan you lost on damage too.

If this is his attitude hes gonna get rekt even worse in the rematch

 

[VinceArch]

You lost Pereira. Accept and move on.

 

[StanTheMan]

he earned the ability to do nothing for 5 of the 25 minutes in the cage because he spent the other 20/25 minutes backing you up, landing dozens of punches and dropping you lol

Spot fucking on. Too many oblivious.

 

[mangokush]

Alex should just go back to kickboxing where the competition is easier if he cant handle the grappling that is involved in MMA

1st time Alex fights a well rounded MMA fighter like Ank and Alex has no idea what to do except back up and allow himself to clinched against the cage, showed no footwork or pivots to get his back away from the cage

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

Faking a mma fight into stand and bang cause you lost to a superior grappler

There should be no stand ups

he didn't even get taken down. they literally spent 100% of the fight on the feet and pereira couldn't do shit

 

[ElLunico]

He did nothing the rest of the time they were in the middle of the Octagon, He got hit with the bigger/better shots and even got hurt. He lost the striking battle. WTF is this dude talking about?????

Even without the wall n stall, he was losing the fight so wtf is he crying about?

Literally majority of the fight was Ank outstriking him lol.

 

[bigfootsbreath]

he earned the ability to do nothing for 5 of the 25 minutes in the cage because he spent the other 20/25 minutes backing you up, landing dozens of punches and dropping you lol

Alex never got dropped. And that strike only counts for 1 round. If Ank was winning the standup, why was ANk so insistent on crotch sniffing? And Alex was the main one landing strikes while Ank was walln'stallin.

 

[Mmmmmmma1234]

I agree in principle but it's not a good look for him wall and stall lost him a round not the fight. This wasn't an Aldo vs merab situation.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Bring in yellow cards, imo

 

[BEATDOWNS]

I believe that one is in Chapter 5 of the Big Book of Brazilian excuses..

 

[Söze Aldo]

Bring in yellow cards, imo

The Asian promotions have it right.

Could be applied to low action stand-up point fighting, as well.

 

[wrb]

I Think Alex had the least amount of head strikes of anyone in any championship fight according to the stats. lol, I should probably look that up first as it sounds weird when typing it.

 

[L0ki]

Agreed with yellow cards.

I didn't see rounds 4 and 5 but the majority had Alex winning round 5.

I had Poatan winning 2-1 going into the 4th.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

Alex never got dropped. And that strike only counts for 1 round. If Ank was winning the standup, why was ANk so insistent on crotch sniffing? And Alex was the main one landing strikes while Ank was walln'stallin.

if it would have been a knockdown had the cage (or ropes, in boxing) not held you up, it's a knock down. he knocked him down, by definition. alex wasn't landing any strikes the entire fight outside of baby taps to the leg. he was running for dear life.