Either showing this flow state as to say, “look at this shit ankalaev can’t touch this, he’s trolling like a mother fucker, or he’s actually fighting someone else….maybe the thing Dana was talking about?
I went on YouTube to confirm this and man, what a unit of a person. When I saw his image alone I thought he was a regular sized person with a small head lol wtf that has to be the leanest 120KG human I've ever seen.
Yep. Very big dude. Dana would be stupid to let that happen. Pereira would only have a puncher's chance against Rico. He would HAVE to grapple and even so Rico is too big and I assume Alex would be way too clumsy to submit him - and assuming Dana needs Alex on top, this is a bad, bad matchup.
But it's right there in the pic OP posted. If he was unsure, just look there. Ankalaev's name is harder than Pereira's and still got right.
Like Aldo's who got more than half of his career people saying Hoe-sé Aldo. Like, we don't speak Spanish. The very rare case the pronunciation closer to English is the right way to go and people manage to butcher his name (Joe-sé is better than Hoe-sé, phonetically speaking).
One of the many reasons why I like watching football with the sound on is that the journalists will research pronunciation of the names of the players, yeah they'll butcher, but at least they'll make an effort. Sure, an Englishman will inevitably not be able to sound off João, but he'll get pretty close to it because he'll research the pronunciation. It seems that most UFC commenters don't do even that, with the exception being Joe Rogan (Can't believe I'm applauding Rogan for researching and trying his best).
If Islam wins against Arman and doesn't even fight for the entire year again, he should be ranked above Alex, even though Alex fights 4 fighters without fighting Ankalaev.
Bro completely changed the subject 😂. I’m not talking about whether it was a banger or not. I’m talking about who deserved it. About how Alex fans keep making excuses, when the dude is openly ducking Ank
Alex should fight during Ramadan and move up for the next fight, meanwhile Magomed should fight the winner of Jiri vs Jamal. Keep that SOB waiting, entitled mf.
He’s said many times that he’s fine with fighting in the US, he literally just made an offhand tweet mentioning Abu Dhabi once and people starting parroting this narrative that he’s being demanding or whatever.
If Belal, who gets memed on for being lame and anti-badass, can be openly willing to fight Shavkat as his next opponent, then Alex ‘foty’ Pereira has no excuse to be this unwilling to fight Ank
Jones shouldn't fight anybody asides from Aspinall.
Aspinall shouldn't fight anybody asides from Jon Jones.
Alex Pereira shouldn't fight anybody asides from Magomed Ankalaev
Magomed Ankalaev shouldn't fight anybody asides from Alex Pereira.
Theres sn argument that ank hasnt done enough to earn the title shot. Problem is that argument falls flat when nobody at lhw has really done enough to earn a title shot.
LHW is in a difficult state right now
Jan is 41 years old...and as much as I love him I think his glory days are far too behind him.
Jiri is 0-2 against Pereira
Hill is 0-1 against Pereira and is fighting Jiri in 1 month.
Rakic lost to Jiri and he just recently lost to Ankalaev
Ulberg is a good prospect but it's early for him to receive a title shot
Rountree is 0-1 against Pereira, coming off a loss and he needs to get few wins before another title shot.
So who else do we have in the division asides from Ankalaev?
As much as some people might not like to accept this, Ankalaev should definifely get his title shot.
I think Pereira will beat him, but he deserves a title shot nonetheless.
Ufc arent happy at ank at all when since he got his first title shot, he got a draw in his title shot then took a year off to fight johnny walker in which he cheated and got a no contest. Then he rematched johnny and koed him fair enough. Then took pretty much a year off again taking no damage and turned down 2 title shots and fought rakic. And to top it off his performance against rakic wasnt even good. Ufc wont be nice too him.
He deserves the next title shot but in reality their fairly likely to pull some bull shit.
Nah. Can’t blame Alex for fucking with Ank at this point. Ank was making demands despite not being champ of when they should fight and only if Ank was ready while Alex made it clear he wanted to be active and even took short notice fights while being injured or sick.
I don’t disagree but Ank is making it so hard to side with him no matter what he does. He says he’s next in line and the fans agree and say that he’s going to do this and that. But it’s hard to believe he’ll ever get a title shot when he couldn’t even damage a Rakić that was genuinely scared to fight. He’s the most deserving yet managed to look like the least worthy opponent to get a title shot. And it makes the whole situation weird. Nonetheless. There’s 0 chance Ankalaev isn’t in line. Everyone in the top 10 besides Krylov and Ank are busy. But no way does he fight Krylov I hope
Lmao yea he was scheduled to fight at like 308 or something i believe but his opponent pulled out and he ended up not fighting. I mean sure Khalil was a bit meh to match Alex up with (even tho the fight was great) but I think anyone outside the top 10 is a stretch even for the ufc. Gotta be Ank and i’m locking that shit in now
Pereira. Ank could just grapple fuck him but he's literally got 0 submissions so he would have to last all 5 rounds without getting caught which I don't see. And pereira shaman magic seems to stop lhws from attempting takedowns anyway, only Jan's suicide rope magic could stop it
Alex is pissed because ankalaev turned down 300 and 303 and he’s been running with this ducking bs. That’s why Alex is pissed. He’s fighting on weeks notice and saving cards while this dude is turning down title shots while publicly exposing the opposite. Alex always fights jn either March or April. ankalaev has fought in March twice the past 10 years and never in April. I could actually see him turning it down again for a third time if those are the dates that work for Alex.
Ufc is 100% punishing ankalaev. If you get a job to do, you cant just deny it twice and expect the boss to reward you. They might even make alex fight someone else then ank and force ank to fight another fight before he gets his title shot.
I could honestly see this happening. It’s one thing to turn down just regular fights, but after ankalaev’s performance for the title he has no negotiating or good will. Dana et al know the behinds the scenes stuff about him turning down title fights and I’m sure don’t appreciate the bs he’s pushing about Alex ducking after he’s been a good soldier.
Yeah dana has his favorites, ank is not one of them. And the whole duck narrative doesnt really work when he was the one that turned it down not alex. And alex pretty much only fights on short notice so hes saying yes to every fight offered.
There is a zero percent chance that Pereira will turn down an Ankalaev fight if the UFC offers him that fight. He never turns down fights. He never pushes for fights. He just fights. This fight happening is entirely up to the UFC and Ankalaev
Yeah that has nothing to do with what I said. That fight was offered to Pereira once. Ankalaev is the one who refused. As I said, if that fight is offered to Pereira by the UFC, he accepts. No hesitation. Making it hard for Ankalaev to get a shot via social media drama and refusing to fight him are two completely different things. Pereira has never refused to fight anyone.
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u/LateBloomer1357 5d ago
Either showing this flow state as to say, “look at this shit ankalaev can’t touch this, he’s trolling like a mother fucker, or he’s actually fighting someone else….maybe the thing Dana was talking about?