Why has 145 been such a striker friendly division?

[Hog-train]

Harder to lay and pray in the lighter weight classes. Lighter weight classes also can scramble more and have a more frenetic pace.

 

[Travis Alexander]

It's not just featherweight. MW and BW have also historically been dominated by strikers.

MW champions: Franklin, A. Silva, Rockhold, Bisping, Whittaker, Adesanya, Pereira, Strickland, DDP. - all primarily strikers.

Conveniently left out Weidman. Although your right MW has “primarily” been dominated by strikers.

 

[PhilMcCavity]

What about Mendes? And Faber was the original King of 145 in WEC

What about them?

 

[PhilMcCavity]

His nickname was also the The Muscle Shark not muscle jerk.

Dude doesn't know his name or weight class LMFAO.

Great point you make people like Stephen hawking or nikola Tesla look like single digit iq having retards

 

[Hdfi]

Conveniently left out Weidman. Although your right MW has “primarily” been dominated by strikers.

I only mentioned strikers on purpose. There have been champions who were primarily wrestlers (Menne, Tanner, Weidman) but they are not the majority.

 

[blaseblase]

Max is the only GOAT candidate without a grappling base and he had to work hard to get his wrestling defense up to a level to compete with the wrestlers of the division.

 

[Rapa]

the current champ Ilia is also a striker

When people will understand ilia is not striker his mainc weapons are werestling/grappling he is just not using it yet bcs he can win with boxing

 

[Rapa]

It is tougher to be wrestler when you weigh like a 10 year old.

U know these guys are around 75-80 druing fight and even more when they are not in camp? I bet u are 100kg of pure muscle

 

[Goutfather]

manlets are able to move faster because they have less gravity pulling on them.

 

[Söze Aldo]

When people will understand ilia is not striker his mainc weapons are werestling/grappling he is just not using it yet bcs he can win with boxing

Ilia's grappling background seems to be in greco-roman which is nothing to scoff at but it's not usually as directly transferable to MMA as free/folkstyle due to the lack of leg takedowns. His style is more boxing based now, where he's definitely one of the better "pure" boxers in MMA.

 

[Rapa]

Ilia's grappling background seems to be in greco-roman which is nothing to scoff at but it's not usually as directly transferable to MMA as free/folkstyle due to the lack of leg takedowns. His style is more boxing based now, where he's definitely one of the better "pure" boxers in MMA.

Trust me he is wrestler and good one too

 

[savemgs]

You obviously don’t remember what weight class he fought in

mostly 170.