they're 1-1. And Poatan looked even worse against Jan and landed fewer strikes. You are also ignoring that Ankalaev had 9 wins at LHW before the Jan fight, while Poatan had NONE, his last fight was a KO loss at MW.
Poatan looked better against Jan, battering him to the point that Jan couldn't get up after the third. Plus, he actually won the fight rather than drawing so there's that.
Less strikes were landed as:
1. It was a 3 round vs 5 round fight
2. In addition to
two less rounds being the reason less strikes were landed overall you utter doofus, the first round was Jan holding a body triangle
for all but ten seconds of the round and nothing more for either fighter.
Meanwhile Ank had already had a shot and blew it by forgetting how to check leg kicks for 15 minutes then limping to a draw, then had to go back to the drawing board.
Due to his inactivity, such a spending a year getting in a single win against...Johnny Walker...after a fight he should have lost by DQ but was gifted a NC since he was on "home turf." It took this guy
two years and 26 PPVs after the Jan fight to get another "top win" in Rakic, who was gifted rank 5 for reasons unknown.
Remember, during these two years, Poatan went up, beat a former champion to get a shot at the title (Ank couldn't beat Jan, recall), then kept getting matched against former champs and beating them leading to him taking and holding the gold.
Poatan single handedly roped in 205 from the
disaster of a division it was becoming after Jones outside of the shining light of Glover and Jiri.
Ank got his shot against Poatan, and won the fight remember?
Then what happened in the rematch? Remind us. Remind us of what happened to the Ankalaev era.
Undeserved rematch? After a close decision loss and 3 defenses inside a year?
Hatin ass goober.
