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In both UFC matches I noticed that Poatan doesnt back away and reset to try to recover when eating huge shots. In the previous one when Izzy almost koed him in the 1st round he took one shot, stayed and took another. Last night the same thing happened, the shot that put him away maybe could have...

I miss that too but honestly I think it's on part of the fans to blame. If I were a fighter I wouldn't give a shit to what fickle spoiled fans want either, they want to make demands but will shit on you if you take risks and eventially lose... the "your only as good as your last fight" mentality.

Did you just called Robbie Lawler a washed up HORRIBLE fighter ? Can't believe it

Kind of true but would you give Adesanya's size/reach advantage away to his previous oponnents ? That's not how things work... guys are the way they are and there's no equal playing field.

I appreciate his talent and somewhat like the way he talks, but his reaction seemed just like you described.

Izzy could probably cut to WW. I think size difference will make it a mismatch

in the context of their back and forth altercations the only problem I have with the quotes you showed is that the references to Africa/Kiwi sound a bit xenophobic to me. The quotes on the bottom are just fight selling to me, the same as I interpreted Izzy's "disrespectful" calling out of Costa

I agree its weird for Costa to complain, but maybe he's just using it as an excuse to put the least hype in a future rematch after he was dominated

That's what I know about the beginning as well, I thought I might have missed something else Paulo did....

He couldn't, but did he try though ? To bully I mean, not back and forth provocation between the two

I'm gonna check that out. Also they had that prior issue of when Costa supposedly didn't know who Izzy was, and during the build up Costa mentioned how he disliked Izzy for being disrespectful or something.

As far as I know the build up to the fight was fair play (to guys that are about to fight on a cage for the belt talking thrash and making fun of each other). How come Izzy's put himself as some kind of victim here ?

Could be, but so little went on in that fight, maybe had it been more heated better opportunities would ve come up.

For sure. Only deluded fans crap on fighters they used to support after a loss. They think their idols should be real life Chuck Norris and can't ever lose.

That could be the case in Costa's case. Izzy even interpreted his antics and strategy as cruising the first couple rounds to save energy.

Often times when there's a potentially unfavorable matchup for a striker on the stand up but he has on paper superior grappling* there's always talk about how he might use that advantage but usually they simply don't go for it. How do you interpret that ? Difficulty changing your fighting...

But he pissed off the fans in some fights.

You forgot about the threat of the takedown. It was the other way around with Khabib. And Conor didnt stood there waiting to counter. Totally different comparison as I see it.

True but he was a counter puncher and could play safe against top grapplers that didnt engage in the stand up.

But Hendo engaged. Whittaker also engaged Adesanya for comparison.