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How nuts is it that Adesanya lost to Strickland ???

Didn’t see the fight but listened to the post fight and a few other Strickland interviews

The guy is a complete and utter basket case

There’s no censorship or moral integrity with this person. Which is really dangerous because he now has a huge platform to do widespread damage to young influential minds

The fact he can openly talk about murder and killing people with no censorship from the platforms interviewing him, so they get more clicks, shows how dysfunctional our society has become

I hope Adesanya gets his rematch and wipes his arse clean
 
Yeah I got up at 5am in England to watch it....he fought well and unsettled Izzy but there was deffo something off with Adesanya's performance for sure.

Also, yes Strickland is an absolute mad man. Consistently crosses the boundaries with sexist and racist remarks.

Also, why the f did you lump UFC and Wrestling in to the same bracket lol.
 
Israel did almost nothing the whole fight. I'm assuming he wasn't fully fit or something.

As for UFC & Wrestling together, well it is quite timely as they are now officially under the same corporate umbrella as of this week ;)


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Strickland had the perfect game plan, pressure to take Izzy’s kicks away and force him to press the action. Izzy is a great counter puncher but Sean was the one doing the countering. But yeah Sean’s a nut case but he’s a character and the ufc will be seeing dollar signs
 
Jamie said:
Strickland had the perfect game plan, pressure to take Izzy’s kicks away and force him to press the action. Izzy is a great counter puncher but Sean was the one doing the countering. But yeah Sean’s a nut case but he’s a character and the ufc will be seeing dollar signs
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He’ll have a cult following for sure

Like the Diaz brothers

Problem is, if he goes about talking openly about wanting to inflict violence and murder on his bucket list of things to do, he’s gonna get cancelled or end up in jail pretty dam quick

The interview with Nelk boys and Rogan was really WTF? 😳


The lack or media censorship today is going to be the downfall of society



 
Beastmode said:
How nuts is it that Adesanya lost to Strickland ???

Didn’t see the fight but listened to the post fight and a few other Strickland interviews

The guy is a complete and utter basket case

There’s no censorship or moral integrity with this person. Which is really dangerous because he now has a huge platform to do widespread damage to young influential minds

The fact he can openly talk about murder and killing people with no censorship from the platforms interviewing him, so they get more clicks, shows how dysfunctional our society has become

I hope Adesanya gets his rematch and wipes his arse clean
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I didn't buy the fight because of that bad loss to Pereira but if you've watched Strickland's other fights, his style is a problem for Israel. Strickland looks like he's plodding forward but he's just moving in enough to sit on the end of the opponents punching range. He uses jabs and feints to draw out a counter from his opponent which he then counters. He doesn't fully commit to the initial attack, you need a LOT of patience and confidence to carry that through a whole fight and not over extend yourself after landing something significant like Strickland did in the first round. Even then, Izzy was so hurt that Strickland should've finished him then but lost his composure and lost the second round as a result. I don't think there was anything wrong with Izzy initially, he just got rocked and couldn't fully recover. It happens.

Offensive counter fighting isn't a style that works against a pressure fighter because in my experience, fighters like Strickland aren't true counter fighters that can fight well off the back foot. Sitting on the end of your opponents punching range also has you too close to them if they're elite wrestlers. Usman bitched Strickland in both departments. Izzy has the better reach too, he just wasn't powerful enough to keep Strickland off him and Strickland wasn't walking into anything so that nullified Izzy's game. Izzy was still buzzed anyway.

I'm not a fan of immediate rematches in any fight sport unless there's special circumstances. Izzy and Strickland are both considered active fighters and fight 3 times a year. A rematch will be likely set for the end of the year or early next year so realistically, the next challenger will get a shot in the middle of next year sometime. If the winner of the immediate rematch gets injured, the whole division could be on hold for 12 months or more. Most of the best fighters in that division are already in their 30s, time's not on their side. It's on the champion to get it the first time IMO.

I haven't watched Strickland's interviews, he sounds like damaged goods. He asked to train with Pereira after being knocked out by him, that shows some humility. Massive size difference between the two, Alex is 6'4 and Sean is 6'1 supposedly. Someone's lying about their height:

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Viking said:
Even then, Izzy was so hurt that Strickland should've finished him then but lost his composure and lost the second round as a result. I don't think there was anything wrong with Izzy initially, he just got rocked and couldn't fully recover. It happens.
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I heard Izzy was concussed in the first round hence the poor showing for the rest of the right.

Lost it in round 1 but held on for the rest of the fight.
 
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