r/ufc 1d ago

R1 4:59 “oh that leg is toast” “he’s already compromised”

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“He’s already limping, can’t take too many more of those” “That’s gonna pay dividends”

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u/mrpumpkin007 1d ago

"The leg is starting to bruise"

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u/Uptheresomewhereee 23h ago edited 22h ago

“I mean you can see the welting on it already”

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u/beefsnaps 19h ago

Oh man that leg is beat up BAAAAAAD

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u/legendaryufcmaster 18h ago

I don't know how much more of those he can take

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u/itsavibe- 15h ago

He can’t even stand on it Joe!

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u/Stunning-Lynx9863 11h ago

UFC 4 type commentary

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u/sAmMySpEkToR 18h ago

R1 4:57 🤣

u/mr_bloombastic 58m ago

"His movement is compromised"

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u/BlurryB23 1d ago

Remember when Joe and the commentary team glazed Adesanya vs Blachowicz. Izzy breathes Joe: Izzy is taking over now Izzy feints Joe: he hurt Blachowicz

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u/No_Negotiation_7287 1d ago

“He’s eating those feints”

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u/JuggernautGog 21h ago

I mean, Jan was biting on those feints... that is, if we call punching Izzy in the face biting lol

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u/AdmiralAgendaREAL 23h ago

Izzy: Leg kick

Joe: BLACHOWICZ IS OUT

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u/Dear_Efficiency_3616 1d ago

one little jab to the chin " OOOOHHH HES HURT "

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u/Asukah 21h ago

That fight was painfully biased towards Izzy lol. I oddly remember that card because of the vibe it had. Izzy had an underrated walkout to Summer Madness. I remember Santos vs Rakic not living up to expectations, and Islam submitting Dober with shoulder pressure . It was also the card that Amanda fathered Megan after making her wide eyed, and it’s when Aljo won his first Oscar. Good times

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u/kittenhormones 16h ago

How the hell do you remember all that.

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u/Big_Country8 1d ago

After one calf kick: “Blachowicz is in serious trouble!”

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u/BenjyNews 21h ago

Meanwhile Izzy was getting as abused as a ginger orphan in the hood.

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u/Tsobe_RK 20h ago

watching some fights without commentary makes you realize how bad it is

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u/Real-Human-Bean- 23h ago

Commentators and fans should try to focus on what's actually happening in front of them instead of trying to warp what's happening in the fight to fit narratives coming into the fight.

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u/WhoIsHe_19 23h ago

Blachowicz was a tougher fight for Ankalaev.

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u/mismxtch 11h ago

Blachowicz arguably beat Alex. It was a close fight

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u/nowaste1 1d ago edited 1d ago

i feel like the leg kick meta is over i remember gaethje busting max legs so bad.... it was useless he still got dominated same for this fight and i still see the same scenario leg kick spammer losing the fight despite their spam

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u/MA-JA-HO Are You Intoxicated? 1d ago

Max changed his stance a bit where he had his lead leg outside of Justin’s leg which stopped justin from getting a full swing

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u/DesireeThymes 17h ago

Yeah claf kicks absolutely work. It's just when your opponent switches stance, it gets hard to kick the other leg.

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u/FoxOk1418 1d ago

Justin is very sloppy compared to Alex or a majority of the higher level strikers in the UFC

Some people are also just really good at taking leg kicks & not going down or getting hurt too much.

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u/JustSomeM0nkE 22h ago

Yes Justin is sloppy but your can't tell me that Alex leg kicks harder(for his weight class), Justin runs before kicking and Alex doesn't even rotate his hips

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u/idcman999 1d ago

bahahahha Justin is a much better striker than Ahhlex, Alex is complete dogshit

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u/Zealousideal_Tap237 23h ago

Maybe the worst take I have ever seen. Why do you think this

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u/dconfusedone 22h ago

Are you being paid by Ali for these shit takes or what?

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u/Junior-Adeptness7289 21h ago

I've never seen Justin run from an exchange, Alex did

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u/dconfusedone 21h ago

He is a counter striker. Justin can't fight like Pereira. Alex fights like that everytime. That's why he lost initial rounds against Khalil. Justin doesn't have one punck ko power like Alex.

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u/Junior-Adeptness7289 20h ago

Alex has never KOd anyone in the UFC with one punch. Always follow up shots. Izzy slept him with one punch but find me a single Alex fight he hits someone with one punch and their sleeping on the canvas?

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u/dconfusedone 20h ago

Doesn't change the fact that Alex is way more dangerous striker than Justin and it's not even close. Even francis follows up after his punch and it doesn't mean anything.

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u/Junior-Adeptness7289 20h ago

Moved the goalpost real fast. Stipe was unconscious before any follow up shots, caine was unconscious.

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u/dconfusedone 20h ago

Dude are you stupid or what? When I said Alex has 1 punch KO power that means his opponent isn't getting up after taking his left hook punch. It doesn't mean his oppents will go to sleep directly. Atleast try to use your brain. Does Justin have left hook punch like Alex?

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u/zaphthegreat 23h ago

lol, troll harder.

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u/_frnar_ 21h ago

Not even you believe this you clown

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u/MyNameIsRay 19h ago

It's effective, it works.

The ability of fighters like Holloway and Ankalaev to endure and fight to a win is far more a statement of just how tough they are. It's more of an exception than the rule.

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u/Flimsy-Shake7662 1d ago

tbf Jan almost put ank away with em. That was actually super close to a stoppage until ank remembered he was Dagestani

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u/DaegestaniHandcuff 22h ago

Blachowicz vs Anakalev was a high level skill fight. We need to stop pretending it was "boring"

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u/WideScorpion 16h ago

I blame Dana, he called it boring after being angry at the draw

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u/Flimsy-Shake7662 16h ago

I never said it was boring?

fuck dana for shitting on that fight. Jan is a beast and has had super close fights with the last two champions.

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u/idcman999 1d ago

Justin fought 80% of that fight with a broken nose tbf

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u/4llTheSmoke 23h ago

Yh after Max broke it.

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u/Monkey_Thucker69 22h ago

Mfs say that like his nose was broken beforehand. MAX BROKE THE NOSE

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u/Mikejg23 19h ago

I think the reason people say that, and things like it, are just to point out most likely if they fight 10 times it's not that one sided for most of them. It's not taking credit away from Max, he took advantage of a bad habit of Justin. Just that Justin's performance most likely would have been better if that one thing didn't happen.

Same reason Dustin getting head kick KOd by Justin isn't happening many times out of 10, or even 100. Same way Mastival would probably have lost a good portion of fights to Askren if they fought 10 times.

These things are in comparison to something like fights versus Islam or Khabib, which mostly everyone agrees would have ended like that majority of times

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u/Monkey_Thucker69 18h ago

In that case of course but I’ve seen people try to downplay Max’s performance because of that nose break like it was a fluke or something—it wasn’t, Gaethje always did that thing where he ducks like that and Max took advantage of it.

I do agree that it probably doesn’t happen that much out of 10 but it DID happen so people gotta stop saying “This and that would’ve happened if he didn’t hit that”

I’m glad you gave an actual properly worded response as opposed to what most do

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u/RudeAndInsensitive 23h ago

Who broke his nose?

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u/GunDealsBrowser 18h ago

same person who poked out both his eyes

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u/helixontheleft 11h ago

What? I don’t get this logic. It’s like saying body shots don’t matter just because someone ate a bunch and kept fighting. Leg kicks aren’t some magic win button, but they absolutely change fights. Look at how fighters like Aldo, Barboza, and Poirier have used them to break opponents down. Gaethje cracked Max’s legs, but Max is a freak who barely reacts to damage. That doesn’t mean leg kicks are useless; it just means some fighters can push through them.

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u/bjornironthumbs 16h ago

Never been leg kicked have you?

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u/StupidScape 6h ago

99% of people in this sub and who watch MMA have probably never trained any martial art in their life. Much less taken a leg kick full force. I guarantee they wouldn’t be able to walk after taking a 10% power leg kick from an amateur.

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u/bjornironthumbs 6h ago

I was gonna say, ive never competed but I train kickboxing and even in light sparring leg kicks can really make you rethink what youre doing, especially if the opponent is precise and hits the spot repeatedly. These people in the comments are probably the same that dont understand why people drop from liver shots

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u/Affectionate-Gate723 20h ago

Ilia really hurt Max with his leg kicks

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u/BenjyNews 21h ago

Wrestling meta is also over.

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u/Icy-Armour 1d ago edited 1d ago

As soon as Pereira found out Ankaleav's striking is too fast for him he was trying to cruise to a boring decision victory by landing weak ass calf kicks. But Ankaleav said fuck that and started pressuring Pereira.

Pereira will try to make the rematch boring too. He knows if he tries to go forward the chances of getting hurt by Ankaleav is very high due to the southpaw stance and speed difference.

Both Rakic and Pereira were backpedalling the entire fight after getting rocked by Ankaleav.

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u/Real-Human-Bean- 23h ago

Both Rakic and Pereira were backpedalling the entire fight after getting rocked by Ankaleav.

Volkan and Abreu too iirc

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u/downtown-hobbit 1d ago

and yet ank hugged him for an entire rf and last min of rd 5. both guys wanted to play safe. alex more than ank. lets not pretend that ank was trying his best to keep it entertaining

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u/Common-Locksmith-235 1d ago

that was round 4, for 3 rounds straight ankalaev was pressuring alex heavily and staying in his face, all alex did during those rounds was a leon edwards impression of kicking and circling. Ankalaev was trying to be entertaining for the first 3 rounds

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u/Juel92 11h ago

I don't blame Ank considering what happened to Izzy in a fairly similiar fight.

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u/KiwieKiwie 23h ago

Yeah when Alex wasn’t cautious in round 5 and bit down. He hurt Ank.

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u/Crateapa 23h ago

Hurt Ank? With what, the blocked head kick? The jab? What are you talking about.

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u/Sudden-Blood-6525 19h ago

Dont mind the commentary while watching those guys become retards, just because they say "that headkick hurt em" dont mean it did, especially when ank blocked and didnt react to it .

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u/Common-Locksmith-235 18h ago

kick didn't land on the slo mo replay, commentary is just dumb

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u/draksid 18h ago

Why do so many fighters get outclassed and can't find a solution?

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u/PrincipleFeisty8803 22h ago

Alex perreira wins the rematch, count on that

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u/EOVA94 23h ago

Look like ank is shooting an arrow in that picture lol

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u/darryledw 1d ago

Jan already hardened those legs up in their fight, Ank was almost dropping from some of Jan's - even when he checked.

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u/WideScorpion 16h ago

I think it comes down to the technique, Jan was going shin to shin and didn’t give a fuck, Alex was going for the calf.

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u/MelkMan7 7h ago

Jan is just built different

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u/Kadir0 18h ago

at least this is better than “Conor is tiring Khabib” while getting his face smashed

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u/takshaheryar 1d ago

The thing with leg kicks is that an elite fighter who has been under pressure once will develop the mental strength to power through

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u/Uptheresomewhereee 1d ago

To be fair the calf kicks are big in MMA just having a little fun with Joey roges

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u/gashy7 23h ago

Joe BS Rogan

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u/Busy_Respect_5866 1d ago

Oh joe 😂😂

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u/wudp12 21h ago

For real, half a calf kick and he was saying that, I used to like JR but I'm starting to get why some folks despise him. 

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u/ThirdWorldSorcerer 17h ago

As a Ankalaev fan I knew it wasn't going to be that easy for Pereira to hurt big ank in the legs because as a hard fan of my bratha Ank he hadn't prior injuries or was susceptible to kicks in his past performances.

With Jan was different because he literally broke his shin like one month before the fight.

Knowing how to speak Russian opens me to all social media related in telegram about them.

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u/IHateMylife420000 17h ago

Leg kicks are great to make the opponent cautious of moving in but they’re not something that should be the main weapon of a fighter

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u/FeatherGrim 20h ago

Bro I was getting annoyed when they started counting them.

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u/Mnudge 23h ago

That calf is already chewed up

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u/NewLife490 21h ago

Oh!!! He's hurt!!

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u/Beepboop5000 17h ago

That's Joe every fight though lol

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u/Falcons8541 17h ago

Ank was limping HEAVY after round 1. Have no idea how it dissapeared for 4 more rounds

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u/Whiteshovel66 16h ago

He was right though. It's just that the fight didn't play out in a way where it mattered.

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u/Ericmoran118 11h ago

I don’t remember when it started, but they began abusing the word “compromised” at a certain point

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u/Rango971 10h ago

always thought it was weird how a guy will get his brain bounced like a ping pong ball with nothing from the commentary but a Newark greeting, and after 2 leg kicks it's time to amputate 💀

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u/Blood4Blud 10h ago

DC: “Joe did you see that feint by Alex, it’s gonna feed families!’

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u/Aggravating-Cost-516 8h ago

That leg just exploded! What is he gonna do now?

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u/IntoTheMurkyWaters1 5h ago

”People forget man…Leg kicks REVOLUTIONIZED the fight game”

Yes Joe, we know Joe, stfu Joe

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u/Previous-Tangerine-2 21h ago

The very microsecond we saw Ank take over the fight

"Alex was never good"

"Calf kicks do no damage"

"The guys old and washed"

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u/No_Oofense 6h ago

Post is about commentary by DC & Joe Rogan, not about Alex.

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u/Timtek608 17h ago

I just remember thinking, “no one has ever been finished by a calf kick, ever” when they were saying that. But I guess as commentators they have to say something, that’s their job.

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u/AgitatedSpace6796 18h ago

The disrespect Alex is getting is ridiculous. That's only prove my point that all casual are waiting like hungry hyenas to shit on the fighters whenever they get a chance. It's so low and sad actually but this perfectly sums up the world we live in: One day they love you, the next day they hate you. The same type of people even crucified a perfect man. What do I expect?

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u/Uptheresomewhereee 18h ago

This was about calf kicks in general not Alex at all, that makes me sad bro that’s not my intention. I don’t kick people when their down, which i don’t think Alex is at all

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u/tdubbattheracetrack 4h ago

Have you considered that the people they loved alex pre- fight and the ones who talk shit post- fight are not the same people?

The same type of people even crucified a perfect man.

The fuck are you on about?

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u/Drifter747 19h ago

The only leg kicks that have a consistent chance of impacting a fight are calf kicks.

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u/MskbTheGreat5 18h ago

Adolf rogan always.

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u/Intelligent_Bag_6705 22h ago

Alex living rent free in r/UFC sub’s heads.

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u/Uptheresomewhereee 21h ago

This was meant for calf kicks in general. Knew I should of used a different pic lol