UFC 281 On ESPN+ PPV [11/12 @ 10 pm ET] “The Big Payback…Revenge” (Israel Adesanya/Alex Pereira)

[Inertia Creeps]

I think y'all need to give more credit to Alex and his corner: that is the textbook way you go out on your shield if you're down multiple rounds in a title fight: never stop moving forward and throw every strike like your life depends on it. Most idiot yes men in these guys corners will tell their fighters "yOu gOt ThIs ChAmP, KeEp DoInG wHaT yOuRe DoIn" even if they're down 4 nil and the fighter will be happy to oblige and hang on for the decision and keep their consciousness/braincells intact even if it results in a loss. Alex's corner didn't sugarcoat anything and told his ass straight up if he wanted to be the champ the only was was gonna be with a finish. Used the little bit of stamina he regained by taking round 4 off to make exactly that happen, gotta give him his props

 

[threattonature]

all that hype


please don't ever mention these new generation fakkits with spider/gsp/jones ever again

The reason I started paying attention to Izzy was seeing a bunch of MMA fans say he was the greatest MMA striker ever over Spider. Son is nice but didnt' have the finishes of Spider for anybody to claim that.

 

[Roid Jones]

Its definitely an early stoppage for sure..I mean he was still weaving...but not sure he would have survived it.....so im not angry at the early stoppage

Weaving where? explain how Izzy by the rules was intelligently defending himself

 

[aceboon]

Why Izzy decided to keep putting his back on the cage instead of circling out is beyond me, dude just handed Periera the openings he needed

 

[42 Monks]

yeah maybe this will spur Izzy to want to put dudes away again. his gameplan was all trash this fight, you saw how terrible he was on the ground so you just let him walk you down and get free shots off. His fight IQ is too high for that what happened

i've seen children get hooks in faster and cleaner than izzy did tonight lol

ppl know i've been critical of usman for a while, but as a fighter dude was always adding new tools to his game to protect his belt. what did izzy do? give up on his hands and movement the first sign of trouble and start fighting stupid

even something like quality body work in the 4th lets him cruise to a 4-1

 

[Lurk Angle]

Got too comfortable. Kept leaning on the cage like he got the fight sewn up

saw it coming in the Jared fight
Dude plays too much
Periera has too much power for that

 

[triplehate]

This is like a storyline from them Creed movies. Rival just so happens to always show up and beat you

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Y’all gotta stop saying he “he was weaving”

He wasn’t weaving brehs…. He was stunned…. Practically out.

If anything…. He was doing that “dazed shuffle”

Like in Street Fighter when you daze someone and the birds start spinning around they head

 

[THEREALBRAND]

Anybody complaining about that stoppage must think this is a fight to death. Izzy was done done.

If the fight went any further the same people would be complaining about the ref not protecting Izzy.

 

[xiceman191]

this aint no rivalry

izzy is that mans son and he can't' do shyt about it mopped your shyt up in kickboxing, twice

nikka took his basketball and went to the UFC

was enjoying life championships, talking cash shyt



mans SPAN THE BLOCK... came to your league and took your belt there too rocked ya shyt in the Garden in front of Hov and your other popular friends



Some real life goku vegeta shyt except even Vegeta's bum ass won against Goku clearly atleast once

Vegeta 3-0 against Goku

 

[Roid Jones]

Why Izzy decided to keep putting his back on the cage instead of circling out is beyond me, dude just handed Periera the openings he needed

Fight IQ on zero, I don't know what that was

 

[42 Monks]

Whittaker and Vettori will beat Alex so easily unless they fight like a$$holes
He has NOTHING on the ground at all.

vettori is not that guy. whittaker made it clear there's levels between vettori and all the real contenders lol

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

I said it to my homie, Izzy needs to stop backing himself up to the cage.

And just like some of you guys said. WHITE DUDES ARE GOING APE shyt AT BWWs!

He really had no choice. Alex's pressure was insane. When a bigger stronger guy keeps pressing forward, you pretty much have no choice but to retreat. Izzy's defense isn't good enough to stand and trade like that against a superior striker. It was a winnable fight for Izzy but he just didn't capitalize when he had Alex hurt.

This just shows how valuable pressure is in a fight. Alex was on some errol Spence shyt. Never giving his opponent any breaks or even time to think. shyt is mentally and physically exhausting.

 

[Duke Wy Lin]

HUMBLED THAT fukk!!!

Yeah I used to support Izzy but dude been insufferable lately. He needed to be humbled. You know that nikka crying in the shower right now.

 

[aceboon]

No disrespect was that a trans woman in the ring huggin pereira?

Lol that's his sister, she kickboxes too