If we're including kickboxing then yes it's not even close. Alex is the GOAT MW kickboxer he and Izzy rose up in the best era of the division and Alex cleaned it out, became THE guy and won the LHW title in kickboxing too. He was ranked P4P no 1 in kickboxing at his peak
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Izzy was a great ranked top 5-10 kickboxer but he never even held a legit title in kickboxing and 90% of his record is cab drivers from New Zealand and China and he has Andrew Tate level kickboxing titles lol
Izzy has a more storied MMA career but Alex even did something Izzy failed to do in MMA which was 2 weight champ and Alex beat the 2 guys who bodied Izzy too
lmao stop pretending bro, Izzy shitted all over Alex in kickboxing.
You're a kickboxing guy, you know this. And heres the proof point.
Standing 8 counts all but don't exist in pro kickboxing. They are never used. I have never seen one in decades of watching. In Izzy + Alex's 100+ pro fights there has never been one - every time they where about to finish an opponent, the ref let what was about to happen, happen.
Oh, except that one time, via a refs discretion it popped up. And when? When Izzy was destroying Alex about to TKO him... in his hometown Brazil... with a hometown ref
Thats the context of how rare it is. So it happening, is extremely, extremely dodgy. As a kickboxing guy you know this - if not please show me some pro kickboxing fight where instead of letting the finish happen, the ref steps in and cuts a standing 8 count - heck even one.
For all intents and purposes, Izzy is a MW glory champ, beat Alex that night.
and lmao, the cope, bodied Izzy? He wasn't even hurt, in both fights he was fine afterwards - even making jokes with Jan as the scorecards where read. deluded bro, come on at least base what you say on some form of reality.