And wilder and ngannous natural God given talent to generate incredible amounts of force is why they are successful. It's a talent just like being naturally faster, or having high IQ and learning ability
Well you guys are dismissing physical attributes as not being talent, in the case of ngannou and Wilder it's the power. If you truly believe this argument then you would believe the same about speed and other athletic attributes as well. But most likely there's no real foundation to your argument and you didn't think it through
The point is, punching power is not something you can train to get better at the same way that footwork or head movement is.
Izzy is not as fundamentally sound as people make him out to be. A lot of the things he does work well because of his athletic abilities, speed, nimbleness, surprising strength, of course height and reach. If he had average athleticism and stature nobody would know who he is. But he's gifted with certain God given 'talent' and he makes best of it. Just like Pereira is doing. You guys are trying to cherry pick what is and isn't talent
he gave everybody nightmares at kickboxing though he's talented
True but it's a myth to think that there aren't natural caps to other things as well, including even footwork and head movement. Put Dominick Reyes in the same shoes as Ali, same amount of training, he's still coming anywhere close to having Ali's footwork or head movement
Izzy may have a more diverse set of talents and skills, but pereiras talent in being able to generate a powerful punch is much higher than Izzy's talents or skills in any one attribute. Pereira accomplished more in kickboxing than Adesanya ever would have and he best Izzy twice even while having less experience. He probably would have more success as a boxer than Izzy as well. Now he has beaten him in MMA as well. In my eyes he is the more talented fighter of the two
False, you're just parroting Weasel. He only did this against the fence, if Israel still had his leg after the checked kick, he'd be working in the open space. He'd end up in by the cage in the earlier rounds because he was engaging. If he just coasted to a UD Pereira's adjustments against the fence wouldn't have mattered. Pereira pinned him because Izzy lost his mobility. Alex caused that though, taking nothing from him.
Lol, timing set Ngannou and Deontay Wilder apart from the pack? You really are clueless. Yes timing their opponent would definitely help them score an easier KO, that said what you actually said was that the two current biggest (known) punchers across all combat sports (Joe Joyce may be up there too) are a product of timing and not so much their ungodly power, lol. Wow.
