UFC 293 On ESPN+ PPV [9/9 at 10 pm ET] “Viewer Discretion Is Advised” (Sean Strickland/Israel Adesanya)

[QBN]

guess he not racist no more

He said he's reformed... blamed it all on his grandfather

 

[Deafheaven]

"Best striker in the world" loses to an upright shell, 5:1 jab to hook ratio

Lightweight has had the juice for awhile now

No one should be shocked when these MMA nikkas go try and box and look lost if the best of the best is befuddled by a square shell.

Strickland lost to a even less dynamic Cannonier Izzy wtf

 

[prince_peoples]

Izzy looked hella slow and threw half assed punches the whole fight

izzy always throws horrible punches

He has fought a lot of guys who gave up a lot of reach and height so they would lung in and over extend.

Strickland never over extended, cut off the ring while applying a lot of pressure.

izzy is a lot of flash and little substance.

 

[Pool_Shark]

I knew what was up when they showed that draftkings post right before the fight

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Izzy gotta work on his boxing. Alex and Sean exposed him you can keep him at bay with the jab.

Strickland's boxing was surprising sharp for MMA. Izzy was feeling all of them punches and made him think differently staying too close getting into a exchange. Straight down the middle beats looping punches every single time

 

[T-K-G]

Izzy 34 it’s over man either gotta fight this man again, or DDP, or even AP again

Man knew he was losing and didn’t try to take it

Last fight HE LIED ABOUT PLAYING POSSUM

I literally said this earlier in this thread, they kept showing the reel of the KO and it literally looked like Izzy was about to get pieced up and TKO'd again so he just threw a hail mary hook and it worked out


I've never seen a champion deathly afraid of moving forward like this

 

[FaTaL]

Izzy looked hella slow and threw half assed punches the whole fight

the jab is still the greatest punch in boxing, it sets the tone and distance

 

[BobbyWojak]

Naw. I've been a pretty big Izzy fan. that was a despicable display. Solid strategy that would get torn apart by your average mid-high level amateur boxer (if they were athletic)

nikkas come in the gym all the time thinking they Floyd and get popped with Overhands and crowding cuz we train to know how to deal with that shyt You are not going to break a philly shell being on the backfoot all day what was their gameplan

"eventually Sean will knock himself out after being mesmerized by your feints "


shyt fukked up my mood watching that lmfao

Sean was bothered by the feints, Izzy fought him same as he did Costa and Whitaker, he just couldn't counter effectively, that's it.

Sean protected himself well, it was a fair fight, sometimes you lose.

 

[Pool_Shark]

O malley winning Strickland winning. Somethings in the water

 

[BobbyWojak]

I literally said this earlier in this thread, they kept showing the reel of the KO and it literally looked like Izzy was about to get pieced up and TKO'd again so he just threw a hail mary hook and it worked out


I've never seen a champion deathly afraid of moving forward like this

You said you didn't even rewatch it and now you're using this loss to reinforce your bias

 

[O.Red]

This fight is a prime example of why I don't take "I'd rather watch UFC because boxing is boring" nikkas serious but wasn't always able to articulate why

MMA nikkas get downloaded and deconstructed so frequently because there are SO many gimmicks and gaps in nikkas styles.

UFC is entertaining but the lack of polish is deafening at times

 

[BobbyWojak]

MMA man...so unpredictable.


I was shocked how bad his boxing was in this fight..he couldn't land anything. Ah..let me stop. I like Izzy, this was just a really, really bad performance...it happens.

That's all you can say, it happens, Aljo was different imo he deviated from his strategy, that qualifies as a bad performance to me. Izzy wasn't going to win this fight by taking some huge risk, he needed a counter but couldn't find it.

 

[Deafheaven]

Sean was bothered by the feints, Izzy fought him same as he did Costa and Whitaker, he just couldn't counter effectively, that's it.

Sean protected himself well, it was a fair fight, sometimes you lose.

Costa and Whittaker over extended though. Strickland was never gonna do that. I expected Izzy to have a plan for him, you can't try to box against a shell like from the distances Izzy uses as he'll just fukking roll with everything. Eventually you will have to engage to test his reflexs because while that shyt is a good defense, it is almost entirely predicated on Chin/reflexes. I'm surprised he look so lost, like they spar boxers right? I've sparred MMA cats and they are always so awkward, so i'm not shocked but izzy is the 0.0001% I expected better. I'm just dissapointed I fukks with izzy as a fighter

Its almost like he fought completely perfect fight to make strickland look invincible

 

[BobbyWojak]

This fight is a prime example of why I don't take "I'd rather watch UFC because boxing is boring" nikkas serious but wasn't always able to articulate why

MMA nikkas get downloaded and deconstructed so frequently because there are SO many gimmicks and gaps in nikkas styles.

UFC is entertaining but the lack of polish is deafening at times

The clinch and separation in boxing is cancer, I did everything I could to get into boxing last week and I settled on Glory. Boxing is like golf or baseball, unless you grew up watching or playing, it's not interesting

 

[sportscribe]

Jones and Edwards better do the dang thing.

Bout to be no more black champs if they don't hold on to their belts (Jones probably vacates anyway).