Who is Islams biggest threat to the lightweight throne?

[Gladiator24]

Personally I think chandler has the best chance of any, because he has good wrestling and has stand up to bother Islam and if he doesn’t fight like a maniac then he can win.

Who poses the biggest threat to his crown?

 

[Izzysexboyfriend]

Conor

 

[nately]

Beneil Dariush is the only threat among current top LWs. Volk could also beat Islam.

 

[quadrunner]

Fiziev wins easily in my very humble opinion

 

[Asahi]

Dariush and actually also Dustin.

 

[Joinho10]

Whoever is next for Islam is in for a rude one. If its Dariush he is definitely getting knocked out.

 

[FTHELayNPray]

No one. Lightweight sucks and is the most overrated division in ufc history. Bunch of old guys still brawling away with no real wrestling challenge for Islam.

 

[BigDramaShow26]

Dariush would give him a great fight. I'd rather see that happen in a few months.

 

[Plew94]

Volcanowski. He deserves to run it back

 

[BigDramaShow26]

No one. Lightweight sucks and is the most overrated division in ufc history. Bunch of old guys still brawling away with no real wrestling challenge for Islam.

Yeah right. Volk is just really good.

 

[DestinedAussie]

Personally I think chandler has the best chance of any, because he has good wrestling and has stand up to bother Islam and if he doesn’t fight like a maniac then he can win.

Who poses the biggest threat to his crown?

After watching today maybe Volk.

 

[FTHELayNPray]

Yeah right. Volk is just really good.

Come on you serious. Justin, Dustin, Chandler stand and banging and then the corpses of conor and Tony. This division sucks. Islam deserves better.

 

[moosaev]

Fiziev wins easily in my very humble opinion

I definitely give Fiziev a greater chance than anyone else. But I don’t think Islam had a great night from a wrestling standpoint. The best version of islam grapples Fiziev to death. Based on Volk’s performance fans will start to downgrade Islam’s grappling, but that would be a mistake imo.

 

[JKS]

Fiziev wins easily in my very humble opinion

Came here to say this. Fiziev has excellent TDD and the striking game is much stronger, and he's a good size LW. For me it's Fiziev.

 

[FTHELayNPray]

Fiziev wins easily in my very humble opinion

Came here to say this. Fiziev has excellent TDD and the striking game is much stronger, and he's a good size LW. For me it's Fiziev.

I definitely give Fiziev a greater chance than anyone else. But I don’t think Islam had a great night from a wrestling standpoint. The best version of islam grapples Fiziev to death. Based on Volk’s performance fans will start to downgrade Islam’s grappling, but that would be a mistake imo.

Why you all saying Fiz when the past prime RDA was throwing him around?

 

[ferrisjso]

Volk.

I think those were the two best fighters in the division. I'd say one of the next gen is probably number 3(as opposed to a Dustin, Charles, Chandler, Justin G etc) but I ain't going to pick say Fiviez to beat these 2. They've earned that much benefit of the doubt.

 

[Kb7]

Arman Tsarukyan.

 

[moosaev]

Why you all saying Fiz when the past prime RDA was throwing him around?

Fiziev stuffed all of RDA’s takedowns, I don’t think Fiziev beats Islam. But if he can stuff all the takedowns and get Islam tired (again I don’t think this will happen) then Fiziev with his dynamic striking can KO anyone.

 

[Tornikidou]

As bad as it sounds, Chandler.

 

[FTHELayNPray]

Fiziev stuffed all of RDA’s takedowns, I don’t think Fiziev beats Islam. But if he can stuff all the takedowns and get him tired, Fiziev striking is dynamic he can KO anyone.

RDA got him down twice according to fight stats.