Why Petr Yan perfomance x Sterling I and II was so different?

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In the first fight Petr was amazing, he was dictating the fight's pace and has take Sterling down 7 of 7. Sterling had 1 of 17 fucking take downs attempts
In the second fight Petr had't attempt any takedown and was worse on striking

How explain this difference? Motivation? Bad camping? Or it was just Sterling's evolution or his better game plane than first fight?
 
Adjustment in strategies, rematches often don’t look exactly the same since so much is learned from the first encounter. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Yan was overconfident considering how the first one was going.
 
Yan's the man; but has choked multiple times in his career.

His first loss was due in part to being penalized a point on a stupid foul (I'd have to go back and watch it to be specific; but I remember watching the fight on youtube and thinking that.)
He was definitely trigger shy in the rematch which is odd considering how blatantly stupid the foul that lost him the belt was.

He seemed to not pull the trigger even though he had the skill to get past O'Malley in a convincing manner.
 
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Sterling had a neck injury in the first fight, if you’ve never had a neck injury before it makes wrestling really tough which is sterling’s bread and butter. I still think Yan is the better fighter between the two, but Sterling scraped by him in the rematch. Yan would have to gameplan to deal with the wrestling and back control if they ever had a rubber match.
 
I don't know. I'd love to see a 3rd one to really settle.

I thought Aljo was going to get whooped again.

I used to dislike Aljo at that time, but he has really grown on me.
 
In the first fight Aljo went nuts throwing the kitchen sink and gassed himself out in the process. From that point on he was chum for sharks and Yan feasted before Aljo tried to stall/bait and got Yan to brain-fart DQ himself.

In the second fight Aljo fought a patient out-fighter round in the first and then was able to get back control early off a takedown-chain-transition and control most of the round. He then exploited the exact same weakness/hole in the third round and got the same position to control another round. By then he had gassed himself from holding so much and Yan adjusted and reversed, but was also partially gassed and couldn't do much except more dominantly out-grapple and land a little GnP and rounds 4 and 5.

Shows you how important game-planning and exploiting defensive holes is - by not going crazy and pacing himself, plus getting an early takedown to back control Aljo was able to get his game going early and get two dominant control rounds. Yan not having his corner and failing to properly defend/adjust early enough cost him dearly. I still had him winning rounds 1/4/5, he ended up losing a split, and outside of 10 seconds of good GnP in the second round Aljo did relatively no damage to him.
 
TheMMAnalyst said:
In the first fight Aljo went nuts throwing the kitchen sink and gassed himself out in the process. From that point on he was chum for sharks and Yan feasted before Aljo tried to stall/bait and got Yan to brain-fart DQ himself.

In the second fight Aljo fought a patient out-fighter round in the first and then was able to get back control early off a takedown-chain-transition and control most of the round. He then exploited the exact same weakness/hole in the third round and got the same position to control another round. By then he had gassed himself from holding so much and Yan adjusted and reversed, but was also partially gassed and couldn't do much except more dominantly out-grapple and land a little GnP and rounds 4 and 5.

Shows you how important game-planning and exploiting defensive holes is - by not going crazy and pacing himself, plus getting an early takedown to back control Aljo was able to get his game going early and get two dominant control rounds. Yan not having his corner and failing to properly defend/adjust early enough cost him dearly. I still had him winning rounds 1/4/5, he ended up losing a split, and outside of 10 seconds of good GnP in the second round Aljo did relatively no damage to him.
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Pretty good analysis, came to write something similar. Good post
 
Yan also didn’t have his usual corner team for that fight. Was some visa/covid shit if I remember.
 
13Seconds said:
Excellent replies. Only thing i can add is that Sterling had a fucked up neck in the first fight. The reason the rematch delayed was because of Sterlings decision to get his neck done. It was worth it obviously.
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Yeah, he was moving in the first fight like Batman from the Burton films, as if his chin was connected to his chest in a straight line
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2nd fight was a Sterling that could commit harder to his grappling with conditioning to back it
 
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jitzmonkey said:
Yan's the man; but has choked multiple times in his career.

His first loss was due in part to being penalized a point on a stupid foul (I'd have to go back and watch it to be specific; but I remember watching the fight on youtube and thinking that.)
He was definitely trigger shy in the rematch which is odd considering how blatantly stupid the foul that lost him the belt was.

He seemed to not pull the trigger even though he had the skill to get past O'Malley in a convincing manner.
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My biggest gripe with Yan and the criticism that often escaped him is: when any fighter coasts in the last round and takes it off, everyone will be quick to jump in and blame them for even the most controversial of losses, but I'm not sure I've seen anyone coast as much as Yan does in the first round of a lot of his big fights. Guy straight up gives a full round away at the beginning by never trying unless he catches something, and instead turning it up as the fight goes. Sure, that's great when you're making reads on your opponent so you can get a finish, but no one else who gives rounds away are allowed tears when the scores don't go their way, so I don't know why Yan is.

It's still choking, like you said he does, but people don't call it out as much just cuz it was early instead of late
 
Mohawk Banditó said:
My biggest gripe with Yan and the criticism that often escaped him is: when any fighter coasts in the last round and takes it off, everyone will be quick to jump in and blame them for even the most controversial of losses, but I'm not sure I've seen anyone coast as much as Yan does in the first round of a lot of his big fights. Guy straight up gives a full round away at the beginning by never trying unless he catches something, and instead turning it up as the fight goes. Sure, that's great when you're making reads on your opponent so you can get a finish, but no one else who gives rounds away are allowed tears when the scores don't go their way, so I don't know why Yan is.

It's still choking, like you said he does, but people don't call it out as much just cuz it was early instead of late
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Yan doesn’t coast in the first round lol he’s literally analyzing his opponent and finding his range. He generally gets his opponent figured out by the midway point of the second round and then starts teeing off. Slow starter sure, but he doesn’t coast.
 
I think Aljo was a bit scared of Yan during their first fight and fought stupidly, i remember after watching the first round thinking that it was going to be impossible to keep that pace for 5 rounds. He basically fought a fight tailored for Yan to win, as he usually takes It Up a notch as the fight goes on. In the second fight Aljo probably learned from that mistake and came with a smarter gameplan
 
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