Why is Fiziev just not that good?

He should try at 145, he improved in the second round staying closer, but you could see he was getting caught. Great fighter in any case.
 
He gets hit a lot. His style is based on him being in a slug fest instead of a well-rounded approach or intelligent strategy.
 
VAfan said:
he's one of those guys who was great until he lost. that's a confidence issue for sure, he looks more gunshy each time now.
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I was gonna say this too; never seen a fighter who seems to have it all fight so tentatively. Ruffy was like the opposite; not setting anything up but winning because his output was much higher.
 
Marko Polo said:
It seems he has everything you’d need to be a champion. Elite striking technique, aggression, footwork, cardio
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He has elite components to his game - power, speed, technique, diverse attacks, solid wrestling (both defensively and even offensively). But he completely lacks nuance to his approach and gets tracked in on trying to set-up and land kill shots. So he isn't really able to put together a truly cohesive game where he is the sum of all his parts, they are just individual attributes he leans on in spots.

He doesn't jab much (or that well) and is basically incapable of throwing to just touch guys, which is the basic lynchpin of elite striking. You don't have to hit a guy as hard as possible to hurt him, you just need to hit him when he isn't expecting it. Working behind a quick jab without setting your feet establishes range and gets an opponent defensively reacting so you can then build a combination or feint the jab into another attack.

For all the pressuring and feinting he did against Ruffy he would barely throw, just an occasional body kick/leg kick or sometimes a lead body shot. Where is the jab? Where are the combinations? Where are the level changes to make the opponent fear a takedown? Gaethje and now Ruffy just baited him to come forward and at a certain point if you are being aggressive without throwing enough to keep your opponent reactive you are just squared up in range not ready to use a defensive system and you aren't even building offensively in layers.

To be a champion at lower weight classes you need the ability too adapt your style based on what your opponent is doing and this isn't HW/LHW so the adaptations need to be a lot more nuanced. It's fine to be a technical power striker, but you're going to be limited in success against elite opponents without the ability to adapt - your opponents will be the ones adapting to you instead (as Ruffy did in this case - started working behind a jab and just touching Fiziev up, then used that to set-up the straight right that he never saw coming because of it).
 
Whatever. He is fun as hell to watch.

He chooses to stay in the pocket and go to war.and almost seems like he would rather lose a war/potential fotn than play it safe.
 
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