Realistically, Strickland has 0% chance, right?

[frederick]

Sean trying to stand in front of Pereira is worrying. Maybe he learned his lesson.

 

[biscuitsbrah]

Izzy has to slip on a banana peel, roll his ankle, and then get soccer kicked on the way down to lose to Sean

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

History has shown the only way to beat Adesanya is either by wrestlefuck or KO... Outpointing him is practically impossible, especially when there is no KO/Grappling threat... Strickland style of high volume jab point fighting will never work, he'll keep his distance and destroy his legs for 5 rounds. Terrible matchup.

It’s a horrible matchup and it won’t be fun to watch.

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

No such thing as zero percent in MMA. All it takes is for Izzy to have an off night or for Strickland add some new wrinkles to his game. Plus there is always a punchers chance

That said Izzy should win comfortably

Yea it would have to something unusual and unexpected. Izzy comes in injured and/or out of shape and clowns around. Strickland looks better than ever at the same time. Something like that.

I won’t be surprised if Izzy loses soon. Just like Whittaker, he’s been going strong for a long time and that doesn’t last forever. But no version of Strickland that we’ve seen to day beats any version of Izzy that we’ve seen to date.

 

[nonoob]

BET THE HOUSE on Sean by decision

This sounds very reasonable, Alex trained to help D1 Strick get power adders.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

I honestly think its just gonna be a decision for Adesanya with tons and tons of leg kicks, Strickland doesn't really block leg kicks or throw them, he is always open for it and he is far too slow and flat footed to really box Adesanya up

 

[NicholasJBasile]

You never want to say never, but I can't help but agree that Strickland's chances are very slim against Izzy, should they fight. I feel as though if he tried to pressure Izzy and win on volume, he'd get lit up like a Christmas tree, or maybe just outpointed by a large margin. I would say that Strickland would really have to fight a fight that isn't his typical showing; make it dirty and come at weird angles and punch after takedown attempts; make it an MMA fight, not a kickboxing fight.

 

[kahymo]

Strickland is doing a special training
i heard he spar 2 Japanese girls anime at the time to be ready for anything

 

[AMAZINGUFC]

History has shown the only way to beat Adesanya is either by wrestlefuck or KO... Outpointing him is practically impossible, especially when there is no KO/Grappling threat... Strickland style of high volume jab point fighting will never work, he'll keep his distance and destroy his legs for 5 rounds. Terrible matchup.

Master Dricus taught us once and for all, it is wise to learn, THERE IS NO ZERO CHANCE !!!!!

 

[AmonTobin]

Adesanya will tee off on the the body while Sean covers his head and tee off on the head when he drops his hands. Sprinkle in some legs kicks for seasoning. Maybe we get a a nice TKO and Sean crumbles to the mat. Sean offers nothing that Adesanya hasn’t already stepped over.

 

[USA!USA!]

His only chance is if Izzy has an awful night. Which could happen in reality, but is unlikely.

 

[BangBang]

R1 KO for Adesanya. Take it to the bank!

 

[AmonTobin]

Strickland has a 28% chance of winning. The important thing is Dricus is fucking out. Sean is fucking in.

 

[JohnMandick]

Strickland sucks. How does this happen?

Just terrible.

 

[Dorkman]

If Strickland were to get his hands going he could probably hurt him with pressure volume. But that being said I just don’t see a way for Sean to land regularly enough. I expect Izzy to assault his heavy planted lead leg right from the get go. And expect that to control the fight.

 

[Dorkman]

No such thing as zero percent in MMA. All it takes is for Izzy to have an off night or for Strickland add some new wrinkles to his game. Plus there is always a punchers chance

That said Izzy should win comfortably

Yep Izzy likely takes this controlling the leg kick game. Which Sean is vulnerable to on his lead leg. Sure Sean could pop him with a good one out of nowhere and get him on skates and run him down. But just don’t see it. Izzy should be able to have his choice of outside strikes using his footwork and leg kicks to control the range of engagement.

 

[Jitter]

Don't forget that Stricky has triggered Izzy almost in the way how Conor did against Aldo.

Mental Warfare could make Izzy lose his temper and go for a KO

Costa triggered izzy and we saw how that worked out. A pissed of Izzy is dangerous

 

[kellier]

Oh he's getting smoked, undeniably

 

[rtodd]

If Strickland got him into a gunfight he could win.

That's a big if. I can't see Izzy acting like Rashad V Machida

 

[usernamee]

Yea it would have to something unusual and unexpected. Izzy comes in injured and/or out of shape and clowns around. Strickland looks better than ever at the same time. Something like that.

I won’t be surprised if Izzy loses soon. Just like Whittaker, he’s been going strong for a long time and that doesn’t last forever. But no version of Strickland that we’ve seen to day beats any version of Izzy that we’ve seen to date.

I mean.. Izzy did just get TKO'd