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Aljo at his best is on par with Yan, maybe even better.
He hurt Yan early with some of those body kicks, Yan has a good poker face. Aljo was just a little too active early, he could've dialed it back when it became clear Yan wasn't giving him many openings. The front kick to the body, the low kick to the lead leg, the jab, the feints, the flying knees. Yan didn't have much of an answer for those aside from defending the low kicks pretty well. Although Yan has a way of just covering up and absorbing your best techqniques then drowning you later, which is what was happening before the illegal knee.
I picked Yan to win, but Aljo fought a very good fight, he's tough as hell and it showed. I think Aljo came into this fight thinking he needed to grapple to win, and even though he was having success in the striking early, he kind of abandoned it and wasted so much energy shooting with no setup. His grappling should've been fluidly mixed into the striking, but he was too erratic to put it all together.
Still, erratic Aljo is a very dangerous fighter and it showed.
He hurt Yan early with some of those body kicks, Yan has a good poker face. Aljo was just a little too active early, he could've dialed it back when it became clear Yan wasn't giving him many openings. The front kick to the body, the low kick to the lead leg, the jab, the feints, the flying knees. Yan didn't have much of an answer for those aside from defending the low kicks pretty well. Although Yan has a way of just covering up and absorbing your best techqniques then drowning you later, which is what was happening before the illegal knee.
I picked Yan to win, but Aljo fought a very good fight, he's tough as hell and it showed. I think Aljo came into this fight thinking he needed to grapple to win, and even though he was having success in the striking early, he kind of abandoned it and wasted so much energy shooting with no setup. His grappling should've been fluidly mixed into the striking, but he was too erratic to put it all together.
Still, erratic Aljo is a very dangerous fighter and it showed.