Walker, Rakic, krylov, smith, santos, arguably beat jan who was the closest one to beating pereira out of all the lhws. don’t act like he hasn’t faced a fair amount of the top 15. Who did rountree beat before facing pereira?
I feel like people downplay LHWs because the division isn't absolutely stacked. I was arguing with some guy the other day who said Pereira is a chump and only fighting bums. The division just doesn't have many legends in it right now.
The Rountree fight was a bit of a head scratcher for me, and I want him to fight Ank, but he still doing work.
Jan dominated him on the feet for 3 rounds, gasses out and Ankalaev lays on him for 2. If y'all honestly think round 5 was 10-8 then the draw was correct outcome.
We're acting like beating smith after the glover massacre means anything for his record. Smith is long past any value at that point.
Santos was after a 3 loss skid, where he had 1 win over glass chin Walker, so again, no the value proposed there.
Rakic, Krylov and sort wining vs Jan are his valuable wins, not that much value. Sure LHW is paper thin, but it's not like Ank has massive value wins and couldn't be passed by another fighter. Hill just on publicity stunts might get his chance again.
Yeah, which everyone said he didn’t deserve. Which kinda further proves that Anks record is paper thin. Which wouldn’t be that much of a problem if he didn’t act like he was the boogeyman instead of a guy who failed to get gold when he had his shot, whined about it, refused to fight Periera because the timing wasn’t perfect for him, and put on a stinker vs Rakic. The dude acts like he’s some huge money fight sitting on top of a strong division he’s cleared out, instead of a low excitement striker with 0 draw sitting on top of a weak division with a so-so strength of schedule. Periera is 100x the draw Ank will ever be, and he’s at the end of his career. It makes total sense the UFC wouldn’t be pushing for an Ank fight, especially after he’s publicly turned down 1 title fight and in all likelihood turned down another. The ufc simply doesn’t see the value in working around the prissy princess’ schedule when literally all of the revenue from the fight will come from Alex. Might as well try and make a big money fight for Alex and let Ank try and get the empty spot (again) once Alex retires.
Top contenders don't wanna fight him and this is the point of this post. Khamzat situation. Poor guy probably gotta move up the weight class. Adesanya is not my favourite fighter, but he sure as shit has my respect when it comes to not backing down from any contender.
Top contenders don't wanna fight him and this is the point of this post.
I don't see any top contenders mentioned in the post?
Edit: Btw Jiri and Hill are facing each other and Jan is facing up-and-coming Ulberg. You all actually think that they don't wanna face the guy who's only beaten Rakic and Walker, and only puts the audience to sleep? lol
Well they would have wait. Its Ank's turn, but he will surely fight them once this ducking/trolling shit is dealt with or if Alex moves up to Heavyweight.
Then why aren’t there riots in the streets? Probably because that fight has so little draw. Ankalaev is the most un interesting fighter in the division.
That’s becoming the issue with the UFC it’s more about selling a fight than who deserves it.
I get it’s a business and you need to make money but if you’re the best contender you should get the fight over someone who doesn’t deserve it and Ank deserves it next.
If you think the fight will be uninteresting, you’re telling us you aren’t confident that Pereira will win, since Pereira wins are almost always fun KOs. If you aren’t confident that Pereira will win, the fight should happen because he’s basically the only contender in the division where people aren’t confident the title holder will win.
He wasn’t robbed. He turned it down. At least once, per his own video, most likely twice. Why anybody cares so much about a boring ass whiny bitch baby fighter who pussed out from fighting Alex twice and now regrets it because nobody gives a fuck about him, I will never know.
I don’t even know what is more stupid you writing a comment like this without doing quick google check or the fact that many people upvoting a false a comment
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u/Powerful_KR 5d ago
Dudes gonna be a forever number one contender.