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Thread: UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2 - Official Discussion Thread [April 8th 2023]

post 1680447063 04-09-2023, 01:27 AM
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Originally Posted By TCmaxxing⏩
What next for Alex? If he goes up to LH and fights a grappler he’d get submitted quicker than Gane vs Jones, if he fights a kickboxer, he’d get KO’d faster than when fighting Izzy at middleweight.
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Originally Posted By stayhomeneet⏩
Still shaking my head.

You are out leg kicking the guy who's bread and butter is leg kicks, your jab is snapping his head back, yet you run in and exchange with the guy who has quicker hands.

It was only round 2 ffs Alex.
Izzy baited him. I was thinking watching it that Alex had to be careful rushing in as it's still so early and Izzy was fresh. The difference in their 1st fight was by round 5 Izzy was tired and his reflexes were slightly slower. You don't rush in against a counter-puncher of that calibre when he's still 100%, you're asking to get caught, which is what happened.
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Originally Posted By Tuga88⏩
Izzy baited him. I was thinking watching it that Alex had to be careful rushing in as it's still so early and Izzy was fresh. The difference in their 1st fight was by round 5 Izzy was tired and his reflexes were slightly slower. You don't rush in against a counter-puncher of that calibre when he's still 100%, you're asking to get caught, which is what happened.
I think Pereira had a very tough weight cut that contributed to him being so eager to take that bait and rush in hoping for an early finish. I don't think Pereira felt he had the energy to make it to the later rounds.

Izzy gameplanned that fight perfectly knowing he needed to be aggressive and fight to finish this guy early rather than trying to survive 25 minutes for a decision. That sense of urgency became extremely evident when he was again getting eaten up with calf kicks making Izzy realize he would be crippled if the fight lasted much longer.

Izzy did say his leg being hurt led to him playing that strategy of imitating the same situation as the end of the last fight expecting Alex react the same way, dropping his hands and going for the kill against a wounded opponent not realizing Izzy wasn't hurt this time. Izzy watched the ending of that fight thousands of time and trained to bait and counter it with that overhand right that he has rocked Alex with multiple times before and the ref wasn't in the way this time blocking him from landing it the second time and leaving him frozen like Elsa.
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Great Ko from Izzy. Really happy for him. Hes a great champ. Super active.

His behaviour towards pontans kid was pathetic though.
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Originally Posted By AmuroRay⏩
Great Ko from Izzy. Really happy for him. Hes a great champ. Super active.

His behaviour towards pontans kid was pathetic though.
His behaviour is always pathetic.

He's a great fighter, yes, but as a human being he's trash.

It is what it is.
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Originally Posted By AmuroRay⏩
Great Ko from Izzy. Really happy for him. Hes a great champ. Super active.

His behaviour towards pontans kid was pathetic though.
No he's not a great champ. He's one of the most boring fighters on the roster. His title defenses were usually the most dull event of a night despite the clown showing up in Undertaker costumes like he's about to put on a show but then runs around the cage for 25 minutes. Followed by the usual cringe monologue of self-praising and pretending to be a victim.

Missed the part where he shat on Pereira's kid but not surprised considering that he was behaving like a wild ape after that knockout.
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Originally Posted By PectoralBrah⏩
the bbc insecurity here is palpable
not to mention the obsession with sucking dicks, the guy clearly thinks a lot about something.
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Originally Posted By TrueTruth⏩
He's one of the most boring fighters on the roster. His title defenses were usually the most dull event of a night
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Originally Posted By stev0n⏩
GSP has entered the chat
seriously. I'd much rather watch a technical striker, even if he doesn't go for a KO, than a lay and pray wrestler.
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Alex didn't respect the power of Izzy

Way too confident

After round 1 when he was talking more than glover and his coaches......



Where does the division go now.

Rematch won't happen till Dec or Jan considering that was bad knockout, that chin/brain gonna need time to heal.

Whittaker vs Khamzat and winner will get number 1 contender shot against Izzy vs Alex 3?

that press conference Izzy sounded like he won't give rematch to Alex which makes no sense. There is nobody in division left to fight.
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I'm like a broken record but if I'm Alex, I'm accepting the 3-1 overall and 1-1 in MMA and moving up. Cutting that much weight and taking shots to the head can't be good. He needs to take some time off, let his brain recover, focus on grappling, and come back at 205 near the end of the year.

Even tho Izzy acted like a complete classless freak in the cage, it looks like they buried the hatchet backstage.

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Originally Posted By elterrible987⏩
Izzy acted like an alpha male what are you crying about, if you soft go watch tennis
Meh it's poor taste to make fun of a kid imo. Bad winners are a lot worse than sore losers. In the end I don't really care, I've seen a lot worse. It only starts bothering me when chit gets to Masvidal levels or poor sportsmanship.
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Originally Posted By elterrible987⏩
Izzy acted like an alpha male what are you crying about, if you soft go watch tennis
The guy got triggered by something an 8 year old kid did 6 years ago. Imagine being 33 years old and having to "settle scores" with a child. He uses the excuse that he's "petty", but he's really just a massive weirdo who has watched too much anime. He can't control his emotions and comes out with some of the cringest chit in MMA history.

Also, he was acting like a ****git with no respect in the cage, then he was kissing Alex's ass backstage, then he continued acting like a ****git with no respect on twitter today. That's beta behavior.
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Originally Posted By TrueTruth⏩
He doesn't though, he's one of the most boring UFC champs ever. He was forced to fight tonight because he was a challenger and refs expect challengers to be the ones pushing forward. Next one he goes back to milking decisions and being a bitch.
lmao the cope is here already.

Izzy demanded the immediate rematch.

You're just a low IQ fight fan, go watch Anderson Silva for his flashy KO's lol - but remember to also watch his 6 fight skid where his hands down chin out bait the opponent started to back fire.

of course you can't appreciate how Izzy barely gets hit and can reduce guys like Jared Cannonnier into a 5 round defensive shell too scared to come forward.
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Originally Posted By stayhomeneet⏩
Only 3 more times to go to win the rivalry.
1 ice cold KO with zero charity

beats even 100 KO's when the only reason you where still in the fight is because the ref or the bell saved you

Izzy was always better. Always the betting favourite. When moneys involved - people look beyond the "0-3" headline into the detail. Maybe you should too.
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Originally Posted By Gainzzz⏩
The guy got triggered by something an 8 year old kid did 6 years ago. Imagine being 33 years old and having to "settle scores" with a child. He uses the excuse that he's "petty", but he's really just a massive weirdo who has watched too much anime. He can't control his emotions and comes out with some of the cringest chit in MMA history.

Also, he was acting like a ****git with no respect in the cage, then he was kissing Alex's ass backstage, then he continued acting like a ****git with no respect on twitter today. That's beta behavior.
cry more kid. go inhale some copium or something
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Originally Posted By Gizzyhardcore⏩
1 ice cold KO with zero charity

beats even 100 KO's when the only reason you where still in the fight is because the ref or the bell saved you

Izzy was always better. Always the betting favourite. When moneys involved - people look beyond the "0-3" headline into the detail. Maybe you should too.
LOL @ claiming Izzy was always better. Maybe he's more all round in an MMA fight against a wide range of opponents. But in a head to match matchups what all of these 4 fights have shown us is that they're pretty evenly matched.
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Originally Posted By Gainzzz⏩
I'm like a broken record but if I'm Alex, I'm accepting the 3-1 overall and 1-1 in MMA and moving up. Cutting that much weight and taking shots to the head can't be good. He needs to take some time off, let his brain recover, focus on grappling, and come back at 205 near the end of the year.
Defintely agree with you here, Alex has been fighting for a long time and he is now at a personal success and financial level that it is very hard mentally to push himself to the brink of death making weight for a fight and an age that his body just can't recover the same as it used to from those extraordinary weigh cuts.

Dana also made it very clear Alex's only option going forward is at LHW. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the last we see of Pereira in the cage. He just took a very bad KO in front of his family, has made a lot of money, has had a long highly decorated fighting career with nothing left to prove, very little chance of becoming LHW champion, and a family that wants him around for a long time to come without losing him to severe brain damage. I'm sure he also has many opportunities to continue earning a great living coaching kickboxing and MMA in Brazil with Izzy being his first customer willing to pay big money to learn how the hell he throws his calf kicks so well.
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Originally Posted By Gizzyhardcore⏩
cry more kid. go inhale some copium or something
Location: New Zealand

Izzy reps Nigeria btw and and never pays homage to your ****gy country, even tho it gave him the opportunity to succeed in life. He got bullied badly as a kid so probably holds a lot of resentment towards kiwis.

So you can stop deepthroating him and ignoring his ridiculous behaviour just because he lives in the same country as you.. kid.
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Originally Posted By Cartiac⏩
Defintely agree with you here, Alex has been fighting for a long time and he is now at a personal success and financial level that it is very hard mentally to push himself to the brink of death making weight for a fight and an age that his body just can't recover the same as it used to from those extraordinary weigh cuts.

Dana also made it very clear Alex's only option going forward is at LHW. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the last we see of Pereira in the cage. He just took a very bad KO in front of his family, has made a lot of money, has had a long highly decorated fighting career with nothing left to prove, very little chance of becoming LHW champion, and a family that wants him around for a long time to come without losing him to severe brain damage. I'm sure he also has many opportunities to continue earning a great living coaching kickboxing and MMA in Brazil with Izzy being his first customer willing to pay big money to learn how the hell he throws his calf kicks so well.
Lame
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Originally Posted By iloveus⏩
Lame
Thanks for the intelligent response.
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Originally Posted By Cartiac⏩
Thanks for the intelligent response.
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Originally Posted By iloveus⏩
Lame
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Originally Posted By Barteh⏩
LOL @ claiming Izzy was always better. Maybe he's more all round in an MMA fight against a wide range of opponents. But in a head to match matchups what all of these 4 fights have shown us is that they're pretty evenly matched.
ok then what do you want? Always better? everyone always thought he was better - even at "0-3" all the betting volume was going on Izzy
You probably stuck on just that right? "0-3", if you'd watch the fights and how they went, it was painfully obvious its pretty close between them, painfully obvious no hometown ref or 10 more seconds who would win

Hard to call them evenly matched when Izzy has done the same thing 3x in a row - lit Alex up first, and the one time he doesn't have the hometown ref saving him with a 8 count, or the luck of the bell - he gets KO'd stiff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwxMfvkEi9A&t=525s

DC, GSP, Weidman, Gilbert Burns even all alluding to the fact Izzy has always been ahead but somehow Alex has won... All of them picked Izzy to win. Even weidman who's arguably never liked the guy.
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Originally Posted By Gizzyhardcore⏩
ok then what do you want? Always better? everyone always thought he was better - even at "0-3" all the betting volume was going on Izzy
You probably stuck on just that right? "0-3", if you'd watch the fights and how they went, it was painfully obvious its pretty close between them, painfully obvious no hometown ref or 10 more seconds who would win

Hard to call them evenly matched when Izzy has done the same thing 3x in a row - lit Alex up first, and the one time he doesn't have the hometown ref saving him with a 8 count, or the luck of the bell - he gets KO'd stiff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwxMfvkEi9A&t=525s

DC, GSP, Weidman, Gilbert Burns even all alluding to the fact Izzy has always been ahead but somehow Alex has won... All of them picked Izzy to win. Even weidman who's arguably never liked the guy.
Yeah but you think David Tua and Joseph Parker are better than Mike Tyson and Muhammed Ali, and that Kai Kara-France is the new GSP, so your opinion dont count
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Originally Posted By Barteh⏩
LOL @ claiming Izzy was always better. Maybe he's more all round in an MMA fight against a wide range of opponents. But in a head to match matchups what all of these 4 fights have shown us is that they're pretty evenly matched.
Hes a kiwi, they don't know **** about combat sports 'cept kaywees are the best ay cuzzie bro
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Originally Posted By Cartiac⏩
Defintely agree with you here, Alex has been fighting for a long time and he is now at a personal success and financial level that it is very hard mentally to push himself to the brink of death making weight for a fight and an age that his body just can't recover the same as it used to from those extraordinary weigh cuts.

Dana also made it very clear Alex's only option going forward is at LHW. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the last we see of Pereira in the cage. He just took a very bad KO in front of his family, has made a lot of money, has had a long highly decorated fighting career with nothing left to prove, very little chance of becoming LHW champion, and a family that wants him around for a long time to come without losing him to severe brain damage. I'm sure he also has many opportunities to continue earning a great living coaching kickboxing and MMA in Brazil with Izzy being his first customer willing to pay big money to learn how the hell he throws his calf kicks so well.
Also one thing you forgot, the dudes also old af now as well
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Brandon Marshall and Izzy before the fight

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Originally Posted By KidGogeta⏩
Also one thing you forgot, the dudes also old af now as well
He's only 35.

That's hella young.

Yall act like he needs his Social Security.
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