“but can he wrestle?” 

Ты дурачок, его в каждом бою переводят, даже Исраэль

LHW has no grapplers

@@shahan1465 Neither does MW, not anybody relevant that is active. Khamzat had a free road to the belt fighting strikers back to back to back.

@@minartsonwdym free road to the belt bro gasses in 2 seconds. Hes probably going to get stopped pretty soon. Just because he can wrestle doesn’t mean anything. He doesn’t have the gas tank to do it consistently. He definitely will lose in a 5 rounder against someone he can’t submit round 1

He never faced a grappler, they are keeping him away from grappler. Ank would smoke him. Easily

I was pretty worried for Alex's test against a monster of a grappler like Jan and bros legs are fuckin tree trunks

Glover professor.

Izzy worked him in round 3 of the first fight. Alex looked tired and lost.

Plus he just keeps improving on a rapid pace. Alex is phenomenal man.

Jan Is a monster grappler😂? Have you seen him against Ankalaev?

underrated hahaha :D

hilarious

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3:33 Alex Oliveira with a heel hook

Excellent analysis. Very accurate I think in 2024 it will be much more difficult to take him down there was a considerable improvement compared to 2022/2023 His survival on the ground is good, perhaps because he should focus more on that with Glover which is Glover area (jiu-jitsu) And the TDD is inferior, I believe he doesn't have many high level wrestler partners at Teixeira Gym, Glover is not a wrestler specialist, far from being. Poatan must have earned around 7/10 million $ in the last 2 fights he should hire a top wrestler to improve TDD TDD high level will mean he will have an advantage AGAINST THE ENTIRE UFC and that includes heavyweight. No one in kickboxing will have favoritism against the best knockout artist in MMA history with the deadliest weapon ever seen left hook

@@BuntarouMori he ain’t stopping a Jones or a Blaydes, even Ankalaev take down. Please.

@@ApocalypticSigns hes definently surviving ankalaev on the ground

​@ApocalypticSigns 30% td accuracy Ankolaev so good Against a bigger guy with perfect range control focused on anti wrestling for 3 years? Overrated Ankolaev is going to have trouble

@@Eagle_SFM anti-wrestling for three years? OK dude you’ve been watching this sports for well less than 10 years. What the hell are you talking about? He hasn’t got a competent grappler yet for chrissakes he couldn’t even hop escape or shrimp when Izzy was on top. What a low-level fan.

Imagine Tom Aspinal thinks he has a chance against Poatan because of the takedown lolol

​@@chiquita683Tom would wreak Alex.

​@@chiquita683you dont?

The Jan fight is debatable, close fight but yeah. And usually in dominating fashion... 100% KO chance in all of his title fights...

Besides one…

@@Gradymeisteryou forgot abt Izzy knocking him out? That’s not 100 percent but still reall good

@@MexicanNerd10 izzy is one of the best tbf, still 3-1 tho

@@hamiwrld2563 I included izzy koing him in that statistic hahahaha

99 aint bad

​@@NeverCriticizeChosenPeople Fr I'm sitting happy at 94, that's close enough to average right?

like it is easy to takedown guy who have world class striking

@@livajakman5358 watch Blachowicz vs Pereira

@@livajakman5358it’s easier then to strike with him

And elite at heavyweight. No seriously, those blobs couldn't grapple to save their lives.

​@@MartialArtsNkThey would gassed 5 seconds into the clinch 😭

@@elyas4637 Blaydes, Jones, Aspinall would be super tough matchups

@@MartialArtsNk Jones is an amazing grappler and Aspinall/Miocic aren't bad either. HW has much better grapplers than LHW and MW combined. Jon Jones is at least in the Top 5 of best grapplersin UFC history. HW not having grapplers is the most insane take ever when LHW and MW exist. The lower you go in weight the easier it is to grapple, that's why WW and below will always have most skilled grapplers in pure technical skill.

@@minartson Yeah Jones is so amazing he dominated Reyes didn't he? Didn't he? Did he? Stop overrating him.

Against strikers lol

@@sukuna____goatedJan is a lifelong grappler. BJJ specialist w/ a black belt. Strong wrestler & judo practitioner. Very good rear naked choke (that he failed to land against Pereira)

​@@crispyhairline394 Exactly, he secured the points to beat Adesanya using his grappling skill. He kept the fight on the floor for 1 or 2 rounds if I'm not mistaken. Israel could not get up.

jan is a kickboxer lmao shut up ​@@crispyhairline394

People always say shit like this after the fights. Before the fights it's always something like "all you need is a half decent grappler and Alex is done". The hypocrisy is insane. ​@@sukuna____goated

Nowadays the skillset is over the roof. They all have some form of grappling whether offensive grappling or defensive grappling. Fighters after giving their back dont flatten out of give their necks easily.

Did you watch MVP versus Ian Garry though? Garry trained with Maia and Du Bronx before that fight, but still…..MVP doesn’t know what to do on the ground. Obviously levels ahead of someone with 0 training but that was not pretty for a top 15 guy which he is deservedly so.

I wouldn’t say that even the worst ufc fighter can do everything, but the top 5 fighters of every division certainly can.

For example, Ben Askren had such amazing striking that people forgot he was also an accomplished wrestler.

Not necessarily, have you seen Paul Craig's striking?

Yeah, those ones earned him a black belt.

No offense, but have you watched Jan? He is not a good grappler, he's average at best. He's always been a Thai fighter. But his cardio is subpar, mainly due to age, and that fight was at elevation.

Jan is a $hit grappler mate. But he does have some solid offensive grappling for a short amount of time.

@@AbdulAli786o Jan is a good offensive grappler though (as terrified as he is of any real grappler), for at least 1 round so it means something. And we can't talk about age and elevation, Alex literally got brutally KOd 4 months prior to this fight. The fact Alex performed this well is incredible. 99.99% of people need a year off and 3 years to recover mentally after a KO loss like that.

@@MartialArtsNk also Jan had his back and had a crank in and still couldnt finish, dont know if thats due to jans inexperience on getting the back or alex's survivability

@@MartialArtsNkso Izzy is too small for light heavyweight that’s why Jan beat him?

After seeing his grappling, the only way he'd get a bjj bIack beIt, is from a KO

All he needs is defensive grappling anyway

Left hook submission

From memory, I’m pretty sure he was grappling in the locker with Glover and managed to sub him.

@@BrotherNat Lol

Izzy controlled him quite a bit in the third round of that fight. Clearly dominated. Also, yeah if there were a few more seconds in round 1 of that fight Alex would’ve been slept. 😂

​@@ApocalypticSignsif Pereira not ko adesanya in last round would win 3-2 in decision, adesanya is better stricker than pereira but pereira has more power of KO

Lmaoo that's what I was saying

​@TheRunner26a Izzy is the better striker than Alex? A lethargic MW Alex whooped Izzy three times, a LHW Alex would absolutely embarrass Izzy.

​@@ApocalypticSigns If there was a few more seconds left in round 1 Alex most likely would've still survived, keep coping, lol. Jizzy lost three times to a lethargic MW Alex with a shitty chin. LHW Alex does unspeakable things to overrated Dogbender.

Let’s be honest dude: If this was ANY OTHER FIGHTER, the comments would be trashing the shit out the bloke in the comments about how shit his grappling is. But because it’s Poatan, people turn the other cheek. No sincerity in this fanbase, just a whole bunch of trendy people parroting each other’s opinions so they don’t look stupid

@@zombieeightpack1381 as pessoas gostam de ver porrada e não luta agarrada, deve ser por isso que ele conseguiu uma legião e fã. Consegue oferecer um show de luta. As pessoas não gosta de luta agarrada, toda vez que leva pro chão todos começam a gritar ''uhhhhhhhhhh'' porque não querem ver brigar no chão

people love Poatan, for many reasons, you just gotta accept it. he's proven his value over and over as a fighter, wheter you like it or not. his grappling skills have not yet been heavily tested, but so far, he's shown he's not the useless piece of shit in the ground as some people have been saying.

@@lourenco4329 concordo

Look at izzy's TD: he:s countering some judo bshit, kind of osoto gari or harai goshi stuff

Anderson Silva jiu-jitsu was extremely underrated. He simply never needed to use it to win fights but he could win fights via grappling Sonnen can talk about 😂😂 That triangle was beautiful

Silva was legitimately good off the ground. Levels above Perriera off the ground. His black belt was earned through grappling not a standing KO hahaha

Love ur channel!

what are you doing here lol

The dumb thing about Silva is people acted like grappling was his weakness when he submitted legit Olympic caliber wrestlers. The only thing guys could hope to do was catch him with a takedown during a strike and then lay on him like Sonnen and DC. If you tried to advance positions he would sub you.

🤣

Very funny. Not a single man in UFC fighting or retired comes even an inch closer to Khabibs level of grappling

@@aduriteking2155 holy glaze bro

@@RealestPoser its facts brother

@@aduriteking2155🤖

That's what baffles me the most when people speak on Alex. His striking is elite, so wouldn't you think he keeps training his grappling/BJJ to become a complete fighter? He also takes almost no damage each fight

He won’t win against someone who knows how to wrestle properly with this embarrassing

@@besmart2350we shall see

​@besmart2350 Jan beat him. Alex cant beat a 40yo

@@jr5993 Jan lost. Keep smoking your copium

Jan was 40 and he fot robbed.

vice versa actually

big black bjj

Alexander volkov

@@Silent43192 that is a heavyweight. Pereira is a LHW.

@@kennedyshotfirst2261Godzilla

@@ben5154 king kong

Sparred with 6'6 Demsey McKean recently. Height is not a requirement for him.

And MW too mate, has some BJJ guys, but lacks solid wrestlers (when Vettori and Whittaker are the best we got...). Oh right Chimaev is there, if only he could make the weight. And DDP is there, but DDP got outskilled by Strickland badly in the grappling department.

@@MartialArtsNk ddp really didn’t follow up from anything on the ground dont sick sick Sean dry my guy, he just laid on there

@@HangTran-rw1bn Well exactly mate, Sean outskilled DDP. Easily got up using technique.

Exactly, he's training Judo and Jujitsu right now! he wants the chance against Aspinall, so he wants to get good in his grappling IQ, I feel he's going to be the greatest fighter we ever get to witness if he can learn grappling and wrestling, his striking is far superior to any other fighter.

For sure i mean imagine if someone with DJs or even Morenos or Figgys skillset was a light heavyweight they'd probably go 30-0

They are heavier and stronger. It is not easy to show skill in those situations. It is harder to do acrobatic movements too. And if one punch can put people down, you will focus more on strenghtening that

they're just not fast (lhw and hw) (excluding aspinal)

@@marcelolage1395 That ain't it mate, a 155 pounder can KO a 300 pounder with 1 shot (even a guy like Roger Huertas into an NFL guy). The thing about the lighter weight classes is the speed and reflexes, they are just so much harder to nail clean than HWs and the like.

@@user-eo1se3xx2p Aspinall ain't fast either mate, he's got the speed of most higher level LHWs like Dominick Reyes, actually is slower than Reyes in over all movement speed. He just looks ultra fast cause he's fighting HW blobs.

Understand that my dick and balls have more rear naked chokes than Alex

None of these guys are good at submissions

He has high fight IQ and seems to have good defensive grappling, he cannot afford to take time off because of his age, however he seems to be certainly training it a lot during sparring which is good, I feel he stands a good chance.

+ he doesn't try to really grapple in his fights, his goal is to not get taken down and when he gets taken down to get up asap and not get submitted. He is not trying to be offensive and his defense is pretty good from what we could see.

i see your point, but then if a fighter was knocked down and was saved by the bell -- a situation that seems similar to being dominated in a grappling scramble -- then how should they restart the next round? should the fighter get knocked down again? that's why i think resetting makes sense, its an artificial setup, but sill reasonable

He earned his black belt only because he was deservedly successful in the UFC. In a grappling match, he doesn't stand a chance with a "real" brown belt who weighs as much as he does

Doesn’t mean shit. The Gracies are quadruple dan black belts and they can’t do MMA for shit