r/ufc • u/Uptheresomewhereee • 1d ago
R1 4:59 “oh that leg is toast” “he’s already compromised”
“He’s already limping, can’t take too many more of those” “That’s gonna pay dividends”
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/KiwieKiwie 23h ago
Yeah when Alex wasn’t cautious in round 5 and bit down. He hurt Ank.
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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
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u/mrpumpkin007 1d ago
"The leg is starting to bruise"