Alex Pereira just defeated Jiri Prochazka at UFC 295. Today, we discuss How Jiri Prochazka matched up against Alex, Pereira's TKO finish, and why Alex Pereira is almost unbeatable at 205 For Business inquires ytmmache@gmail.com
@@TheBabyTort You can't just "dodge brah" when you're fighting someone like Alex Pereira. Dude absolutely does NOT telegraph his leg kicks, it's surreal
I think the reason a lot of people (incorrectly) gave the first round to Jiri, is because damage with leg kicks isn't nearly as obvious and impressive as hitting someone in the face even though it can be more damaging
Yeah I was confused I saw people saying first round was 10-9 for Jiri when Alex sent Jiri flying with a leg kick and kept chewing him up with them throughout
You are 100% right about the stoppage, in real time it looked early and Jiri probably could have taken some more damage, but I think of it like this. He gets rocked twice in quick sucession when the hook combo sat him down and he proceded to eat like 8 elbows with no defense before falling on his back with Pereira in full mount. The only people saying this was early just wanted more blood
Jiri was gonna end up like Tito if this had gone on any longer. For someone with such potential it’s a shame his “fans” wanted to see him keep going. Continuous knockouts do increasingly more damage and you can’t reverse CTE. Especially considering Jiri relies on his chin to execute his style, a loss is better than a career ending KO.
Jiris legs were jelly that’s what surprised me , especially within the first minute. The early stoppage is Cope, his hands weren’t even locking towards a double leg they were just lifeless
Jiri admitted in an interview that he was KOed unconscious during the Reyes fight. Good thing Goddard wasn’t reffing that fight or else we would be talking about Alex vs Reyes instead of Alex vs Jiri,
@@jasonrick6148jiri was pretty much still moving as he was going out in the Reyes fight and popped right back alive into side control. Would’ve been hard for the ref to see and it’s not like he was eating hits as he was going out
@@mrr_corleoneyeah in that fight he gets hurt and ends up in top position, in the Alex fight he gets hurt bad TWICE and ends up in bottom position. No clue why some idiots argument for an early stoppage is how Jiris been hurt before when they are two different situations
Both guys surprised me. Jiri’s unorthodox striking proved very effective and you could see Alex very tentative when throwing, which is um common compared to the volume of strikes he usually outputs. And then with Alex he again showed how much he’s evolved with his wrestling, as well as his chin is clearly so much better at LHW. He took some big fkn shots from Jiri, who hits like a fkn truck, and he was still able to maintain composure and capitalize on the opening.
Spot on about the calf/leg kicks! People don't understand how much that shit hurts lmfao. It's a baseball bat being swung at your legs and I couldn't imagine what Alex's feel like. He literally sweeped Jiri off his feet with one of them and I thought he snapped his leg.
Let's see if he can cross over to boxing and win belts in cruiserweight and bridgerweight. If he can do that and become a 2 divison champ in another combat sport, then he is the greatest combat sport athlete of all time.
His lack of head movement would not be a good thing in boxing lol, i think yall underestimate boxers so hard its funny. Try fighting with your head stuck in place like most MMA fighters and you are going to eat counters and overhooks all day.
Imo he is done the hardest and enough. How many boxing champs do u see moving to MMA and becoming champ? he moved to MMA which is a harder sport to dominate than boxing/kickboxing. he is 36 already and still gotta defend his belt in UFC, you guys asking almost for the impossible.
Jiri may not have been out but he fell flat on his back with his hands above his head and shed standing over him, dropped and not defending but still conscious pretty much the definition of a TKO. The stoppage was fine.
Man I don't know if I've ever agreed with a video so hard. You can pretty easily see the moment Jiri goes out the second time when he falls off Pereira, because the grip he has just opens up. His hands go limp and fly off. That's isn't a transition, folks. It's him going unconscious, and I think that was the signal for Goddard who leaped in after that. Never ceases to amaze me how some of the commentators can commit so hard to a take. And those people giving Jiri 10-9 for that first round need to apply for their casual fan membership. It was a big takedown, sure, but that doesn't actually count for much when you don't follow up with strikes or submission attempts. And besides, how can you see a guy get knocked off his feet by a leg kick and think he won the round?
People are quick to call the stop early. But marc goddard was 5 feet away and that gives you a whole different perspective when your seeing and hearing them shots land on somebody up close.
i think DJ said it best when he said "dont put yourself in a position to be put into a stoppage. everyone in wrestling asks how to defend a cradle, dont be put in a cradle". Jiri shouldnt of traded blows with a kickboxer
The issue is that Jiri recover extremely fast after getting knocked down : - Reyes knocked down Jiri - Glover hitted Jiri super hard and he was wobbly for like 1 minute - He got knocked down multiple time when he was fighting in Japan's Rizin (top 5 MMA promotion in the world) He won all of these fights. I think some fighters should be given more seconds unconcious because they have a history of getting up, recovering, and winning. Exemples that comes to mind : Cheikh Kongo, Prime Tony Ferguson, Cyril Gane (watch Tai Tuivasa fight), Benoit Saint-Denis (watch Elizeu fight) I also want to add that Blachowicz, Jiri and Ankalaev are the only one capable of beating Alex at 205 if they stick to a grappling gameplan and only work submission during their training camp.
walker is a glass cannon but actually has nuclear power (the thing they say alex has even though at light heavyweight its just aimbot accuracy and skill) and he showed he can play possum in that Magomed fight thats the thing that got Alex caught in the Izzy MMA rematch. I can see Alex making a mistake and Johnny pulling off some goofy bullshit and hurting him super fucking bad and putting him away with ground and pound.
Two things: Jiri did go for a takedown against Dominick Reyes and high elbow guillotine is just one way of doing a guillotine (when Fabrício Werdum was teaching his guillotine in bjj fanatics he said the variant he likes is the one were you put the forearm bone up against the trachea of the opponent, when Jon Jones hit it against Ciryl Gane he did It like Werdum does). Also Pereira couldnt do the high elbow version since he had Jiri's arm in the middle, the high elbow guillotine is done without the opponents arm being inside the choke.
As time passes by Alex will become better at grappling training with glover plus having strength and size advantage plus if Johnny walker beats ankhaliev it’s a lottery for him
Oh god, another Dagestani fighter's fan. Man its time to get over the dagestanis, its time to realise there are far better fighters in LHW than Ankalaev.
People in the comments already speculating that Magomed Ankalaev can defeat Alex with his wrestling. These dagestani fanbois never realise that fighters at higher weight class have the ability and strength to defend against takedowns and wrestling of the dagestanis.
I swear. I don’t know how anybody gave the first round to Jiri. The tweets giving Jiri the first round was zoning me out. He did really do any damage on the ground comparable to The Alex leg kicks.
It was an early stoppage but it wasn’t a bad stoppage. It was early as we see Jiri almost automatically respond when his back hit the ground…basically flash KO’d instead of fully unconscious and could’ve continued but not a bad stoppage because…he was flash KO’d and went limp then dropped back into Alex’s full mount Also what’s wild is all 3 judges gave round 1 to Jiri
I feel like it can both be true that Jiri's proven several times that he can recover from getting rocked really bad and therefore stopping it there seems early, and also that the stoppage was perfectly reasonable. Ref made a decision and we all can see why he made it. That's more or less what Jiri said anyway, that the stoppage was fine and he was pretty much out but there's a chance he could have salvaged it.
Unbeatable is a stretch considering he had a very close fight with Jan and Jiri had success throughout their fight. He’s good, he’s the champ, but no one is “unbeatable”
Good comment. There's also rakic who is still very much an unknown force but we have seen him have ridiculously strong top control so if he wins convincingly against jan we might be in for a wrestlefuck.
hill vs pereira is a interesting match up especially since both are technically sound on the feet no awkwardness in their striking so the chess moves they will be entertaining but i have pereira getting the tko victory
HW is too much for him, guys like aspinall or jones won’t play games laying on top of him on the ground and will finish him. He won’t deal well with people hitting him just as hard as him if not harder
It might have been slightly early, but it wasn't looking good for Jiri anyway. It was still a pretty good stoppage. Unfortunately we saw that Alex' grappling has not improved enough. I don't think he'll be champ long. I guess we'll see.
I don’t know about that… I think there’s a few guys who can beat him. Jiri included even though I picked Alex before the fight, if anything this fight made me less confident in him, not more.
Pissed me off with the amount of early stoppages they don’t cry about. If this was early so was aljo v O’Malley and Cruz v cejudo and Izzy Vs periera 1 and etc. Hearing joe randomly decide “yep I’m going to complain for no reason on this fight in particular but none of the others” just pisses me off ngl.
Rogan should be a professional like he once kinda was not trying to do post judges job as a commentator.. When they watch it and he would say "well it was maybe this or that" okay give your take on it. Don't interview the guy and ask this qustion when he barely knows where he is to remember how he got knocked out 2 minutes ago
He will get crippled. Jan absolutely destroyed his legs and Pereira destroyed Jan's legs. Pereira will defend takedowns and then piece him up on his feet with those brutal leg kicks and punches. People are overrating those Dagestani dry humpers.
Skill for Skill Adesanya is actually better than Poatan, the power is where the difference is. Izzy was winning the first fight on the scorecards before the knockout...and was winning the second fight on the scorecards as well before knocking Alex out.
Bullshit. Pereira was clearly winning the last fight until the 2 right hands. And in the first he was winning more exchanges he just got outgrappled in the 3rd and couse of it he was gassed in the 4th. So we can't judge those 2 rounds based just who is the better striker. Take that away and we have a first round where Pereira was winning the striking but got hit once very good. A second round which Pereira after getting hurt still recovered and won the round pretty clearly And he win the 5th as well and even got the KO Plus he beat him twice in kick-boxing as well where is just only striking. And Pereira wasn't even close to his prime at that point ahere as Izzy was. Also Adesanya got very eaisly beat on the feet by Strickland and Jan Those guys got outstrucked pretty easily by Pereira.
The biggest problem with these guys like Joe Rogan is that they don't say "I think" "maybe" they claim it was an early stoppage And this causes enormous confusion because many casual people start to use this narrative as an excuse Jiri was clearly knocked out
Izzi knocked him out cold, so that kills your " argument " ko'od ....I'm waiting to see pereira vs hill ,because hill is pretty much undefeated except for that broken arm incident 😳 Paul Craig is leopard 🐆
lol. alex isnt waiting till may-june to fight hill, alex the type of guy to give someone else a title shot meanwhile, and also 36 isnt old for a lhw/hw
Watching it live I thought he was trying to pull guard but the replay showed otherwise. Even if he was trying to pull guard I could totally understand why the fight was stopped.
