Given how much success Islam had in the striking, I figured volk would be more prepared for it in the rematch but instead Islam doubled down on his striking and volk just didn't do anything about it.
Clear stylistic weakness.
Alright maybe we should keep him around. He's not bad at this MMA thing.
That 1st performance Vs Yan was one of those rare combat sports performances that was irreplicable. Ala Duran/Leonard 1, the level he reached that night, the way he fought, it was never gonna happen again. He was too perfect
Me and @MigClass have speculated separately that Merab's cardio while still the best in the sport it's not what once was anymore. He tried to go foot to the gas the whole fight and was just not possible. He took the gamble though, something needed to be done, respect.
If morales beats prates I'll prolly pick him over islam. I think I'd pick islam over prates regardless of how prates looks though, bad style matchup for him.
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I was thinking about this during the Chopurov fight. After khamzat-Strickland, Makachev-garry, merab-yan, pantoja-van, van-taira, I’m sold. We know so much about grappling defense that it’s incredibly difficult to dominate with grappling as your A game vs a high level opponent
holy shit the judges actually give it to thicknesse... i had it for chopuruv but it was super close, just shocked the judges went that way.