News Why Yan is great. Arguably best volume striker in UFC
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He's just a solid boxer and that's it
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Made me a fan tonight
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Dude. He looked great everywhere. In the stand up, in the clinch, on the ground. He dominated all facets of this fight.
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UPDATE:
I usually don't like making posts without substance. So I updated this post with some facts to school the foolz
. Let's break out the stats from official UFC stat page ufcstats.com.
As you can see, Yan has only had 7 fights in the UFC and won all 7. This has to be taken into account when comparing some of these stats against other fighters.
Yan along with Assuncao and Barao got the longest W streak in BW division. No losses in UFC, impressive.
Knockdowns landed, Yan has a split 3rd place. Take into account that Yan has less fights in UFC than Dillashaw and Garbrandt. Dillashaw has 15 fights in UFC, Garbrandt 10 vs Yan's 7. Yan has 2nd KD per 15 minutes. He has the best KD per fight average.
Once again you have Dillashaw leading KO/TKO wins, Yan has a shared 3rd place. Once again Dillashaw has twice as many fights as Yan.
Total strikes landed, Dillashaw is the leader with twice as many fights (15 vs Yan's 7), Yan is the leader in UFC in total strikes per fight.
Yan is top 5 TDD in BW division. (Rivera's TDD is very impressive, mad hespect)
Also Yan's the record holder for most strikes landed in a UFC fight. Yan has arguably the best striking output per fight in the UFC.
Yan is a close second behind Sandhagen in strikes landed per minute. Yan is #1 in striking differential which means strikes landed vs strikes taken. Which means he deals a lot more damage than he receives in striking exchanges.
Once again Dillashaw stat leader in total significant strikes landed, but once again you must take into account that he has twice as many fights. Yan is already at 8th place with 7 fights. (Barao 17 fights, Aljo 14, Assuncao 16).
Yan is #4 in striking accuracy .9 % behind #1. Impressive.
Conclusion:
People claiming that Yan is slow, average striker, not impressive etc. are delusional, ignorant and uneducated. Yan is a top-5 statistical leader in almost all of the striking stats and #1 in some. Yan is an elite striker. To claim otherwise is just ignorant. Numbers don't lie!
I usually don't like making posts without substance. So I updated this post with some facts to school the foolz
. Let's break out the stats from official UFC stat page ufcstats.com.
As you can see, Yan has only had 7 fights in the UFC and won all 7. This has to be taken into account when comparing some of these stats against other fighters.
Yan along with Assuncao and Barao got the longest W streak in BW division. No losses in UFC, impressive.
Knockdowns landed, Yan has a split 3rd place. Take into account that Yan has less fights in UFC than Dillashaw and Garbrandt. Dillashaw has 15 fights in UFC, Garbrandt 10 vs Yan's 7. Yan has 2nd KD per 15 minutes. He has the best KD per fight average.
Once again you have Dillashaw leading KO/TKO wins, Yan has a shared 3rd place. Once again Dillashaw has twice as many fights as Yan.
Total strikes landed, Dillashaw is the leader with twice as many fights (15 vs Yan's 7), Yan is the leader in UFC in total strikes per fight.
Yan is top 5 TDD in BW division. (Rivera's TDD is very impressive, mad hespect)
Also Yan's the record holder for most strikes landed in a UFC fight. Yan has arguably the best striking output per fight in the UFC.
Yan is a close second behind Sandhagen in strikes landed per minute. Yan is #1 in striking differential which means strikes landed vs strikes taken. Which means he deals a lot more damage than he receives in striking exchanges.
Once again Dillashaw stat leader in total significant strikes landed, but once again you must take into account that he has twice as many fights. Yan is already at 8th place with 7 fights. (Barao 17 fights, Aljo 14, Assuncao 16).
Yan is #4 in striking accuracy .9 % behind #1. Impressive.
Conclusion:
People claiming that Yan is slow, average striker, not impressive etc. are delusional, ignorant and uneducated. Yan is a top-5 statistical leader in almost all of the striking stats and #1 in some. Yan is an elite striker. To claim otherwise is just ignorant. Numbers don't lie!
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That's why he set the record. 62 significant strikes in the fifth.
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Are you sure? Striking expert @Undefeated Undisputed tells me that Yan "seems slow". I don't know who to believe.
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Well if he says so....
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Yan is legit, no doubt about it. But the comparisons are not apples to apples, new champions usually have more impressive numbers but moving forward they tend to have longer fights with less finishes/KOs/knockdowns (except if you're Anderson Silva), which is normal since the competition becomes much harder once you're on top. I would guess that Cody's or TJ's numbers looked similar when they won the belt
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Good point, one can assume that stats get worse with better competition, but this shouldn't apply for stats related to striking output.
Also shouldn't apply while comparing with other contenders.
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A very good striker, but those legs can definitely be a problem. Elder Aldo almost chop his legs even not kick anymore for a long time. I mean, this is a thing a fighter doesn't improve from day to night. We need to see Yan improving his kick game and movement, a man like Moraes could bring him problems on the first rounds.
I don't know, if we see pure strikes without seeing the quality of them, we can be fooled by statistics. I like Yan's fighting style and I want to see him improving his overall striking game. This kind of shit can't happen anymore, he could lose because of that. Ok, Aldo is Aldo, but we need to see some improvement in the leg department, leg kick defense, movement and stuff.
I don't know, if we see pure strikes without seeing the quality of them, we can be fooled by statistics. I like Yan's fighting style and I want to see him improving his overall striking game. This kind of shit can't happen anymore, he could lose because of that. Ok, Aldo is Aldo, but we need to see some improvement in the leg department, leg kick defense, movement and stuff.
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I'm talking on the ground
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Also Yan's wrestling is so underrated it's not even funny
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It is. But he only uses it to surprise opponents.
He has a legit wrestling and grappling game, but I could see him being out wrestled and out grappled by American wrestlers or legit blackbelts. Sterling is a good example of both.
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Just an extra thing to worry about. The way he throws people to the floor reminds me of Fedor.
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If he beats Sterling I'll be impressed. Right now he's on Weidman's level for beating aging legends.
As of right now Sterling is looking like Luke Rockhold to Yan's Weidman.
As of right now Sterling is looking like Luke Rockhold to Yan's Weidman.
