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He's built for MW weighing in at 200 pounds against Jan without cutting weight, Pereira was back up to 232lbs 20 hours before fighting Hill so maybe even heavier on fight night. He's a gigant guy even among LHWs and exceeds the LHW limit by a way bigger margin that Izzy does the MW one.

I don't think it's really fair to compare their performances against LHWs considering Pereira himself is some 30 pounds bigger than Izzy in that division, if anything the size difference makes Izzy's fights against him more impressive imo.

Yeah and with Alex settling into LHW as his natural class the size discrepancy would be even bigger now if Izzy chased him up a division. If Pereira wants the quartet he can starve back down to MW too. Also people shitting on Israel for "getting lucky" ignore that every fight between the two...

As far as I can tell the whole mess started because Russia pressured Yanukovych to renege on signing the EU co-operation agreement to which he'd already committed and which had passed parliament, leading to the revolution of dignity and the Russian-directed separatist movement in response...

That wasn't a chin or hands issue though, he was stopped for being defenselessly stuck in Craig's armbar with his elbow dislocated and seemed unphased aside from the injury.

This is the first time it went below chance right? Still scary so far though, might be a stupid question but can one ask the gpt about its process for picking fights, like does it have some kind of technical analysis or narrative for how fights are likely to go based on past PBPs of the...

He did have a clearly visible infection on his forehead in the days before, people expected the fight to be canceled over it

Love Fedor and all but he'd look like a fish out of water in a boxing ring with Joshua too

if we're being pedantic boxing simply means striking with the hands though, for example the phrase "box someone's ears" doesn't refer to getting in the ring: "BOX: to beat, thrash, strike with the fist or hand," late 14c., from box (n.2). The meaning "to fight with the fists" (intransitive)...

To be fair we still haven't seen that fight and Jon wouldn't bring to Pavlovich what Aspinall did, it'd be a very different fight stylistically Jones is there to be hit and Pavlovich with his reach and power really hits (even if he sucks now because he lost)

If you make that excuse for Alex then you also have to consider the previous fights could've easily gone either way, one razor close decision where Izzy has a good case for deserving it, one hometown fight where Pereira gets a standing eight count to recover, and one where he might've been saved...

Aren't you confusing him with Volkov, Pavlovich walked through Lewis in a minute last year

Izzy probably doesn't cut that much even at mw, he came in at 200lbs for his fight at LHW

Every match between these two could've gone either way, Pereira was somewhat lucky to get the decision in the first one, the standing eight count in the second one, and for the round to end just as he got hurt in the third one On the other hand Pereira was winning the fourth fight til Izzy...

I kinda regret we missed out on Jones fighting both Anthony Johnson and Ngannou, those would've been an interesting and different test from the guys he did face. I guess Pavlovich brings something similar, Blaydes might be interesting too

Could? yes But Jones probably does have objectively the best career in MMA now. We'll never get to see how a fight between them would play out but Jones surprised me with how good he looked at HW.

Yes I think so, Jones probably has the greatest MMA career now if you have to pick one. Hats off to him for pulling this off and with none of the eyepoke bs juicing his reach advantage on smaller fighters too.

Yoshida himself was really a LHW or even MW fighting at whatever weight, to give him his due his judo peak was at 78kg and he gradually ended up at 90kg before going to mma

Pride's matchmaking of olympians was something, they had guys like Karam Gaber a 25 year-old Olympic gold medalist, or Nastula, Eldari Kurtanidze and Jung Bu-Kyung and just debuted them against horrible matchups like Fujita or Big Nog for the one-time spectacle with zero attempt to build on...

Stylistically it's not impossible especially against Pereira, de Ridder's grappling is good and he doesn't let you bang