One of my favorite memories of watching the UFC was Calvin Kattar vs Giga Chikadze. I hyped Kattar up the whole week to my mom who sometimes watches with me. In the last 15 seconds of round 5 my mom was almost out of her seat cheering for the Calvin to finish him. One of her favorite fights and a memory I really enjoy
I just rewatched it to help with how this Saturdays fight will go and it should've been 48-47 for Kattar across the board. I barely gave Emmett the 1st and he won the 3rd but he clearly lost 4 and 5 and Kattar slightly got the 2nd round
Emmett fights in a super judge-friendly way, he's powerful enough where everything comes off as impactful even if it doesn't do a whole lot - tough dude to win close rounds on
@@chez4prez825 I saw a video of him training dude has been working on his elbow strikes he reminds of John Jones with these perfect lethal elbow strikes
Both Kattar and Max have incredible defence but rely way too much on their chins and as a result have pretty bad boxing defence. Max is probably the best offensive striker and just overwhelmed Kattar with his offence. Kattar has good offence but Max’s is better. And Kattar essentially just let Max do what he did. Yair wouldn’t let Max overwhelm him so it was a war between the two. And the Volk exploited Max’s bad defence. Max walks forward with a wide armed stance and his chin high in the air. Volk’s defence, speed and strategy were just so good that night. It’s nice to see boxing evolve in MMA as well as wrestling. People overlook the boxing fundamentals that guys like Volk have which makes him so great. And to consider he started MMA in his 20s is insane. Max started kickboxing way earlier and Volk Gaines way better technique in a way shorter time. Some dudes start striking later when their brains are fully developed instead of young and risking it which leads to incredibly sound and technical strikers like Gane, Adesanya and Volk. Normally you’d think the guys who start young get the best technique but that’s only the case in grappling. In boxing/kickboxing/Muay Thai late starts can be very beneficial when looking at all time greats like Bernard Hopkins who’s story is incredible.
@@Quietplague2000 Bro, why? No one even mentioned Makachev. This guy was just complimenting Volkanovski and the levels at Featherweight. There’s always gotta be a nigga like you who can’t be happy for another man’s success and has to immediately downplay with ‘oH tHis gUY iS bETtEr tHO’. 🤦🏾♂️.
Kattar's hands almost look like they are too heavy for his arms. Like, if he misses, his whole body is flung with the speed of his punches, almost taking him off balance. Definitely one of my favorite fighters in any division!
in fairness, he was rallying it together at that point. not a bad stoppage by any means, but imo it wouldve been ok to see if he could grapple and recover
@@RollWithHunter oh yeah hes too big. He would need to go to LW. I think if he does go to LW, dont come back till the big July PPV so he can build into a 155 frame but i think it would take till his 2nd back to back LW fight for him to fill in. Hes not a small guy by any means
The definition of crisp boxing - amazing accuracy and timing with the fundamentals! the rotation on those straight shots is on point as well. Hours of drilling for sure! demonstrated by how he flows while fighting in a phone booth.
@@bhoomeerg8045 you guys wont keep sucking off max whenever you got the chance, and volk beat the shit out of max and so did dustin and mcgregor, this is mma, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose
He's probably the hardest puncher at 145 that we've ever seen since McGregor and Aldo, you hear almost every hard shot he lands on people, that's crazy.
I get why you would think that but you're saying this like you've trained or been in the ring with both of those guys or something. Unless that's the case then what you're saying has nothing on the facts.
Jeremy Stephens walked through Emmett so brutally that they don't even show it on his highlights, he walked through Emmett because he wasn't afraid of his power coming back at him but then you look at when Stephens fought Kattar and it's a way different approach to how he fought Emmet. Dude was hesitant af about Kattars striking and power but with Emmett, Stephens could've killed him if the ref wasn't there. If that don't tell you who probably hits harder than idk what sport you're watching.
Calvin kattar and petr yan are proof that boxing is a good base to have in mma, most mma fighters dont understand the basics of striking and the jab is a lethal weapon when facing the ignorant .
Absolutely. I’d say boxing is just as a good of a base for striking as wrestling for all grappling.If your base is boxing all striking easily comes together. If your base is wrestling all you need is just to learn submissions. Boxers easily become kick-boxers. Wrestlers easily win grappling tournaments. Someone who started with kickboxing can’t go to boxing really. Same with grappling-bjj. He cant just go to wrestling. Bases of all combat sports and arts and the oldest two. Boxing. Wrestling.
Kattar has one of the cleanest 1-2 in the UFC imo, before y’all hop on Max beating him up really bad, we all know that, I’m just saying he’s got one of the cleanest 1-2s
Probably the best guy to beat Alex at 145 right now. Like his differing entries, has a lot of pop, and heart. Also his last fight, he showed he is willing to change up his game plan for a bit to get the upper hand later on. Still have problems with keeping his legs rooted to the ground and not having the best head movement, solid guy with a solid chance.
