Hes used to having a reach advantage. He backs up to space and use his jab. Tonite he ran into someone 30lbs heavier, strong as an ox, and with a equal reach.
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Yeah that was said about Rhonda too. I think its the latter in a decade or two this will be a much better situation with more parity and less of a 1 person dominating everyone.
The heavier part is the issue. He is too small for that weight class
Talking about he wants Jones in December.
Unless he gets bit by a radioactive spider, he better just stay at his lower weight class. After all those other 205 cats just seen how easily he is manhandled when Jan hit the gas, it's a wrap. Jan wasted 3 round on bullshit. Others won't be like that. Grappling way more of a problem with weight/strength disadvantage than striking.
Talking about he wants Jones in December.
He couldn't even get this dude off him, now imagine if that was Jones with his superior ground skills and them elbows
He was definitely in his prime back in the WEC (and early arrival in the UFC) days.
Right up there with the best ... but always had a few guys ahead of him talent-wise. Losses to the likes of Cruz, DJ, Figueiredo, and an iffy loss to Sergio Pettis. Pretty much everyone else he was better than. Like you said - time to retire. Tough to see him taking these additional losses in recent years. He has nothing left to prove. He'd be a great cornerman & coach, plus his wife's got a solid gig for years with the UFC. They're good financially & based in Vegas near the UFC headquarters & P.I. ...
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Jan's only had 1 loss in the past 4 years ... impressive ...
- Decision win over Izzy
- TKO over Reyes
- KO over Anderson
- Decision over Jacare
- KO over Rockhold
- Lost by TKO to Santos
- Submission over Krylov
- Decision over Manuwa
- Decision over Cannonier
- Submission over Clark
* Keep in mind he was 1 - 4 prior to his current run ... damn ... talk about a late career resurgence ... been fighting for just over 14 years ...
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- TKO over Reyes
- KO over Anderson
- Decision over Jacare
- KO over Rockhold
- Lost by TKO to Santos
- Submission over Krylov
- Decision over Manuwa
- Decision over Cannonier
- Submission over Clark
* Keep in mind he was 1 - 4 prior to his current run ... damn ... talk about a late career resurgence ... been fighting for just over 14 years ...
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My thoughts on the main event:
- Izzy seems to let off the gas just a bit when he's fighting a guy that he likes. Almost as though he doesn't want to hurt the guy as much.
- That being said, I doubt that the outcome of the fight would have changed even had he gone full throttle.
- Size was a factor, but not nearly as much as people think. This was simply a bad stylistic matchup for Izzy that his team probably didn't recognize beforehand. Jan didn't just out-grapple Izzy, but he also OUTBOXED him.
- Apparently no one in the world, including myself, knew that Jan actually has a superior jab to Izzy's. It's actually one of the best jabs I've seen in MMA in quite a while. For a fast counter-striker like Izzy, a strong, perfectly timed jab like Jan's is basically kryptonite. Izzy never was able to get his own timing down because Jan's jab wouldn't allow it.
- Looks like Jan has read some Bruce Lee once or twice. He employed Lee's philosophy of Broken Rhythm perfectly.
“Ordinarily, two people (of more or less equal ability) can follow each other’s movements. They work in rhythm with each other. If the rhythm has been well established, the tendency is to continue in the sequence of the movement. In other words, we are “motorset” to continue a sequence. The person who can break this rhythm can now score an attack with only moderate exertion.”
Every time Izzy began to get into a rhythm, he began to dance, kinda like an Izzy Shuffle, which usually means your ass if you are his opponent, since now that he has his rhythm, it will be a short time be for he times you and lands a perfect strike that you don't see coming. Jan, however, had a smarter game plan. He used Izzy's dead-giveaway dancing as the signal to break the rhythm. In the first three rounds he would use his jab to do it. Once he got tired in the last two rounds, then he would use the takedown and hold him down to win the round. Either way the rhythm was broken and Izzy would always then have to reset and start over. A smart fighter knows that every fighter's strength can also be their weakness. Jan is obviously a lot smarter than he looks, and Izzy's underestimation of him was his fatal mistake.
- Even though the blueprint for beating Izzy has been shown, that doesn't mean every top fighter can do it. Jan's natural style and fighting IQ made it easy for him. I think Izzy will always have a problem with Jan.
- However. I think Izzy actually has a much better chance against Jones than he ever does against Jan. Styles make fights. Izzy would take a Jones fight much more seriously and put on the weight and focus on his grappling defense. Jones does not have nearly as good a jab as Jan does, and I don't imagine that he would be humble enough to try and develop one in time. I think Jones is much more likely to get sucked into Izzy's rhythm and then get lead exactly where Izzy wants him to go, which is exactly how Izzy usually wins.
- If Jan had been more aggressive like many people on here are saying, then he himself would have been the one that would have been KO'ed. He would have been playing directly into Izzy's hands at that point and Izzy would then be able to lure him into a trap like he usually does. Jan was too smart for that.
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Great breakdown @Pipe - thanks for the information re: broken rhythm.
You're right about styles making fights.
- Gonna be interesting to see how well Miocic - Ngannou 2 plays out
- How well Jon Jones does up at heavyweight later this year or starting next year
- Interesting seeing how Izzy's match-ups have played out. He dominated Tavares over the course of 25 mins. Made easy work of Brunson. Had a respectful match with icon Silva. Had a Fight of the Year 25-minute battle with Gastelum. Didn't have much to work with re: Romero who wanted to play possum and counterfight from second 1. Embarassed Costa last year & shut him the hell up. Then had a tough fight against late-career resurging Jan B' yesterday.
- Almost makes me wish Jones stayed at 205lbs and defended against Jan.
You're right about styles making fights.
- Gonna be interesting to see how well Miocic - Ngannou 2 plays out
- How well Jon Jones does up at heavyweight later this year or starting next year
- Interesting seeing how Izzy's match-ups have played out. He dominated Tavares over the course of 25 mins. Made easy work of Brunson. Had a respectful match with icon Silva. Had a Fight of the Year 25-minute battle with Gastelum. Didn't have much to work with re: Romero who wanted to play possum and counterfight from second 1. Embarassed Costa last year & shut him the hell up. Then had a tough fight against late-career resurging Jan B' yesterday.
- Almost makes me wish Jones stayed at 205lbs and defended against Jan.
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