With 3 Ls in a row, is sherdog ready to accept Yan as overrated?

[checktheknuckles]

I agree with op. Yan beat a bunch of fading stars and then got dq'd, and wrestled fuck'd two times. I think he might have beat Sean but we know the judges weren't going to pick Yan no matter what.

 

[Uke]

He's the Russian Garbrandt.

That's a far fetched comparison

 

[matrixremaster]

Yan is being devalued here.

He's an amazing fighter. Lost 4 but should have won 2 of them for sure, and it's not like he got killed in those two fights, just outgrappled.

He's young, very talented, has taken no significant damage and will fight for the title again.

 

[LindyBrah]

Dude got a title shot by beating old man Faber and old man Rivera, got his belt by beating old man Aldo, he is good but he is not even close to the best BW in the UFC like the promotion and the fans were selling him, he didn't face anyone elite on their prime during his rise.

Old man Rivera? Dude was only 29 when he beat him lol. Aldo was 33. Even Faber was coming off a TKO win over Ricky Simon that’s aged very well in retrospect. Bantamweight is a murderers row and we’ll never see a Cruz like dominance again for a while, if ever.

 

[Jonesisnatural]

Last October/September whatever it was after beating sandhaggen people were acting like aljo stood zero chance and nobody is gonna beat this guy
Since then he's lost 3 straight and everyone is writing his epitaph
Wild sport

 

[Tweak896]

We just know that pressure gets to Yan. IDK same shit happened to Cro Cop. It's not foolproof and he's still dangerous. That was a gameplan not everyone can replicate. If Yan's grappling was shit he would have spent 5 rounds on his back and never got up. He wasn't able to get off his striking at all, but not many can getting pressured like that, you have to be able to land some big power shots to back off someone applying that much pressure, but he also was conserving for a 5 round fight. Hell if you read the comments live, plenty of people were expecting Merab to gas himself at that pace.

Yan basically beat Sterling then DQ'd himself with poor fight IQ, lost a close fight to Sterling because he couldn't escape body triangle, lost a close split with O'Malley that's controversial, and run over by Merab. He's basically 50/50 with Omalley/Sterling and only dominated like that by Merab. It's not the fatal end of career people are cheering for.

 

[Shilajit]

O'Malley is another one of the best strikers in the history of that division, and ultimately got outstruck by Yan.

No he didn't

 

[Shilajit]

Lol “overrated”. Hell no.

All it shows is how STACKED 135 is. For a guy of Yan’s level to exit the top 5 is pure insanity, bantamweight is by far the best division in the UFC.
Merab is one hell of an athlete, and he came up with a great gameplan against Yan.

O’Malley’s excellent and has a tough physique to deal with at 135, and the decision was controversial too.

and Aljo in the Yan rematch found the one weak spot in Yan’s game, which is that he exposed his back when scrambling back up to his feet.

Petr Yan is a top level bantamweight in a division filled with absolute freaks.

This

 

[ferrisjso]

Yan was overrated now he's underrated. Weird how that happens.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Dude got a title shot by beating old man Faber and old man Rivera, got his belt by beating old man Aldo, he is good but he is not even close to the best BW in the UFC like the promotion and the fans were selling him, he didn't face anyone elite on their prime during his rise.

He s great but he lost a step. He must be very frustrated.

 

[DatSamboKid]

A lot of people think he won against O’Malley and Sterling and Merab are arguably the best fighters in that division.

Yan is far from done, but his next fight is very important. 4 straight loses might completely derail his UFC career.

He looks small at 135lbs, I’d like to see him attempt 125 if it’s feasible. He would be a great addition to that division and would probably earn a title shot within 2 wins.

 

[turbotime]

Well he beat O'Malley so no, not yet.

 

[SkinnyClaw]

Maybe slightly overrated, but still a top tier fighter. I used to think he was actually the p4p best fighter around the time he fought Aljo the first time, he didn't have the body of work, but I thought he would keep the belt for a long time, so in that sense you could say I overrated him. It still feels like fate is screwing him or something. I feel like its also his poker face. He just looks like a killer, even when he's losing you kind of expect him to suddenly turn it around, or figure his opponent out. I kept waiting for him to download Merab and start piecing him up, but it never came.

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

Dude got a title shot by beating old man Faber and old man Rivera, got his belt by beating old man Aldo, he is good but he is not even close to the best BW in the UFC like the promotion and the fans were selling him, he didn't face anyone elite on their prime during his rise.

I think he’s probably close to the best bantamweight given that he was kicking the champs ass once and had a coin flip decision with him a second time.

Was he overrated? Probably a bit since many people thought he’d be a pretty comfortable champion. But he’s clearly elite.

 

[jsbx45]

Begrudgingly, yes. I thought he was sent by the JBG's to violently humiliate the BW division. NO such luck. He's only 30 though and can still turn things around.

 

[Neck&Neck]

He’s not the smartest cat in the ring, Joe

 

[is a]

The Sterling rematch was debatable (Sterling came in there like right after he finished a Rocky training montage) and the O'Malley fight I thought Yan won and got robbed in the loss.

This recent one though...it's hard to swallow.

 

[emefer]

Well maybe Yan can cook

 

[ejazahmednit]

Or that BW is just that good
He only got shutout by Merab
Sterling and OMalley were pick em fights

 

[djason1988]

He was kicking aljo's ass before the knee, then lost a close decision to him. He 100% beat Sean, media outlets almost universally scored that fight in his favor. Merab is a monster, anybody who's actually been watching his fights knew that.

Yan isn't invincible, he needs to up his pace, and while he's good everywhere, he's not really excellent at any aspect, which will leave him vulnerable to dedicated specialists.