Media Poatan comes out against Wall and Stall

[Söze Aldo]

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Exactly! Stalling ≠ winning

 

[F15]

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

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

 

[Kwic]

I feel my boy Alex but at the same time he let another grown semi naked man hold him against his will against the fence and he didn't do anything about it.
So even if Ankalaev were to be given 0.2 points for holding Alex there it's still better than 0 points for being held there.

I love Alex but he blew it.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Cool. But it doesn't change the fact that he lost at every aspect of the fight.

 

[Natural Order]

Alex making lamo excuses like all of them…sad!

 

[Joshua Judd]

I get it, but it’s hard to convince people you’re winning a fight when you’re being controlled in place for a considerable amount of time. This isn’t like McGregor elbowing the piss out of Chad Mendes head from a position he was being controlled in. At the time I had pereira edging the fight but the 4th round was pretty clearly Anks and that was where the most egregious “wall and stalling” was happening.

 

[Sean Chowdhury]

wall and stall isn't exciting but neither is what alex did, alex literally ran the whole fight and did a leon edwards gameplan, he fought very timid

 

[svmr_db]

If you don't like being pushed against the cage then fuckin do something about it why don't you?

 

[whocares]

Generally I agree, true wall and stall should get broken up pretty quickly but if the aggressing fighter is throwing anything, attempting to advance position or hunting for a TD, thats not wall and stall, even if its not pretty.

Alex needs to drop the bellyaching and go back to chama.

 

[Xoleth]

It wasn't Bautista vs Aldo, where Bautista walled and stalled against Aldo, who wanted to do damage.
Alex was walking backwards most of the time.

Generally, I also agree. Wall & stall should be punished.
There are wall and stall grapplers who should be punished, like some of Usman's fights, and entertaining grapplers, like Brady in his last fight.
Another fight that comes to mind was Jacare vs Jan.
A lot of wall and stall.

 

[FrappeDuRocma]

Ankalaev broke him. Alex was even more inactive...

 

[burningspear]

We all know what we saw and its difficult to imagine a rematch being much different.

 

[Spam On Rye]

Pereira is right. Also, shut up and take the L.

 

[Söze Aldo]

It wasn't Bautista vs Aldo, where Bautista walled and stalled against Aldo, who wanted to do damage.
Alex was walking backwards most of the time.

Generally, I also agree. Wall & stall should be punished.
There are wall and stall grapplers who should be punished, like some of Usman's fights, and entertaining grapplers, like Brady in his last fight.
Another fight that comes to mind was Jacare vs Jan.
A lot of wall and stall.

Aldo vs Merab was another.

 

[PrideNverDies]

Aldo vs Bautista showed the rules need to be changed asap. As it stands, UFC rules are just an advertisement for grappling/wrestling

 

[Goatenstein]

Little baby Poatan should keep crying maybe he can slip away from Big Ank using tears as lubricant next fight.

 

[jeff7b9]

 

[alchemy]

That's part of MMA, Alex. When opponent is attempting to take you down and you're defending that - well, good for you. But just by defending takedowns you won't win a fight. You actually need to do some substantial damage for that, which you didn't. And don't forget, you were saved by the bell in the 2nd round, otherwise you would be KO'd.