Oliveria is the only other Brazilian that always a underdog but the difference is Alex is winning

He arguably lost to Jan and definitely lost to Izzy their 2nd bout. Alex luckily beat Izzy by ko after losing, even being dominated, the entire fight their first mma bout. So what’s your point?

Money racketeering is the one and only explanation. Funny how people get rich on fraud and live lavish lives meanwhile someone who is somewhat moral and actually works hard has nothing and is dirt poor.

time to start betting on heavy on AP

@@vdoza33 ''Alex luckily beat Izzy by ko after losing, even being dominated'' hmmmmm, was Anderson Silva lucky when he beat Chael Sonnen?

😮

Jon Jones bary fights and slow and sluggish

“12 days older” just say they are the same age.

@@noble6441that’s basically what he said lmao the point was people keep calling Jon old while Alex is out here the same age doing what he’s doing. Why act so stupid?

​@noble6441 such an odd thing to gripe about

Alex going to loose

​@dragonforce3738 i cant be confident in someone who struggled against Jan and thiago santos on the feet. Alex struggled with Jan too but that was at elevation and 3 months after coming up from 185 where izzy flatlined him and he still perfomed better than Ankalaev

​@@dragonforce3738 loose deez nuts

Yeah he gonna counter Alex and outgrapple chama

God willing

Huh? Chama

You will be broke

Mogamed is going to stand he already said it he getting slept

Mind games ​@@tommygunnggg1127

If you want to be homeless.

Personally I think every tweet that comes out is Ali lol

​@@MAruGGsnow there's a man I wouldn't buy a used car from 🤣

Coz Ank couldn’t fight in the US. Isn’t that hard to understand

@@boris_jscouldn’t or won’t? He literally cried on his post fight interview after draw with Jan because he couldn’t finish nor check leg kicks…

@@boris_jsWomp womp

Coz this time he will face the real champ of LHW. Ufc has done hell lot to save Alex from Ank

@@boris_js When I stopped doubting him he lost to Izzy so I'm gonna still doubt him. Even tho he doesn't finish ppl I still see him taking Alex down and Controlling him for 5 rounds, 50-45ing Alex. Ank will only be drilling wrestling for this fight in training which he should

We know jon will shoot for the legs immediately, but there’s a chance that Aspinall will try and stand with Pereira

I love Alex but you are trippin if you think he wouldn get folded against jones or aspinall or curtis. 230 is not that heavy lol. Francis was 270. Alex vs francis was the fight to make

​@@RT-qz5ci Alex kos Francis within a round, Francis is way to wild and sloppy to beat Alex lol

glover is not a dagi wrestler

@@playaccount3881 Magomed is a pathetic excuse for a "dagi wrestler"

@@playaccount3881 Got subbed by Paul Craig LMAO

@@tacticalmattress because hes not finishing people on the ground? He's gonna sub a novice like alex.

@@ceedub3966 No submissions in the ufc, matinee is not a submission artist my guy

Jan destroyed Ankalaev to the point where the fight might’ve been stopped with a few more leg kicks. Poatan should be fine.

​​@@chrisk9613it depends on when ank decides to wrestle, if he does what he did against Jan he's cooked. If he decides to wrestle right away Alex has got no chance

All you analysts said the same thing about your Christian QuitterVeira. Yall got humiliated. Just stop now

​@@zarifinator1327 U say no chance bro u are crazy delusional

@@zangkapkano150 bro look at what he did to Jan, literally took him to the ground at will with no legs. I like Alex but his defensive wrestling is horrible. I think Ank will win by decision if he decides to wrestle. If he stands with Pereira he's getting knocked out.

Where wife 😢

Your wives gonna belong to Uncleaev than lol

Life*

If you win do you get a 2nd wife?

CHAMA 🗿

And then you wake up. Yall new alex fangirls are the biggest casuals

@@boris_jsawww u still salty about sizzy?

@@icecoldfire25 na im just exposing yall new fangirls riding him so hard. Remember your father QuitterVeira how yall were saying the same thing??

He can just as easily pull an Ian Garry vs MVP and grapple him to a win

@@icecoldfire25 Nah he's a dumb muslim, exposed himself for that in other comments lol. Probably doesn't even watch the shit, just knows it's a muslim guy fighting lmao.

Its because Aspinall has almost no chance of winning if he doesn't get the finish early. Jones could finish Pereira early or go 5 hard rds if he needs to

​@@cawbird568dumbest statement ever

Not really. The last we saw from Jones, he didn't look slow at all. He shot quick on Gane and got the choke easy. You're only as good as your last performance, and Jones made sure to that his last performance showed that one of the top guys in the division didn't belong anywhere close to being in the cage with him. Plus the fact that some still consider Jones the #1 P4P. Of course the odds are going to be more favored for Jones.

@@cawbird568 Jones will be the first casualty in the octagon if he strikes with Pereira

@@cawbird568what are you basing this on? Aspinall hasn’t had a fight go over 2 rounds because he gets the finish (or loses) We’ve never seen him look gassed in that time

Ankalaev's greco style of wrestling is very effective and makes his opponents tired.

You're bugging, against alex he might as well be khabib. You will see, if the ufc allows it 😂

​@@ceedub3966Pereira offered to fight Ank but he tried to call the date and venue against the champ and Pereira wants to stay active. Back of the line for Ank

Any blast double leg takes down the guy standing straight up But Ank has no fight IQ

​@@slee2695Alex is great on the ground. Hes a black belt in jujitsu

The "man" is beyond petrified, Tom lives rent free in his nightmares

People have been saying Jones is scared to fight a contender for decades now. Then it's on to the next one...

As he should he could shut his lights out any exchange is dangerous and he’s no Cyril Gane. Jones cant just take him down and submit him he is a good grappler and he is a legit BJJ blackbelt. I believe Tom knocks him out.

@@CJ-gi1jh Is that so? Then why not take on the interim belt holder? Anyone who thinks jones is not scared of Tom is a sideshow clown.

@@paulosicne8498 Because he already has a fight against Stipe coming up. It's really not that hard to understand. Jones has been winning championship fights for longer than anyone in history. If you actually think he's scared to fight, you're either very new to MMA or just a moron.

And Alex is no fool to fall for it.

Alex ground game gonna be exposed soon !

He has zero wins by submission in his entire career. Idk where people are getting at him being some great wrestler. Hes been a striker his entire career. He just mixes in takedowns from time to time but hes always primarily striking

Haters gonna hate

Krylov, Ozedimir, dos santos who had a split with jbj Lol y'all newfound Alex nuthuggers are weird Watch ankalaev beat Alex

It's not really hype, it's just that people will hype up any of Alex's opponents if they actually have some level of grappling because we all know no one is outstriking Alex. People did the same thing with Jan because of what he did to Izzy when he went up. Then he fought Hill and Jiri, both of whom aren't really grapplers. Alex will win, but that's why people are talking about Ankalaev like he's good all of a sudden.

@@theunbeatable6598 santos is losing in PFL these days. Those performances are aging like milk

Only a casual like you would be interested in that fight. Every true fight fan already knows what happens in that one.

​@@mikehansen7610 Talking about 'casuals' and 'real fight fans' is embarassing dude. You sound twelve

@@mikehansen7610 not wrong. the fans need to stop wanting jones to have easy fights like he has had his entire career. give him tom and his entire career will be exposed as a fluke

@@hellothere4431”easy fights” are you insane? I know Jon is ducking Tom but apart from that Jon has literally fought everyone at LHW

@@maxashelford4747 i am not impressed that he beats guys that are the size of modern day welter and middleweights in LHW, one of the shallowest divisions in mma and then when he does fight someone his size he has trouble and arguably loses like with reyes. also have to keep in mind that for much of his career he was likely on the juice too

To be fair, this is the one time I'm 100% confident he will not be stupid enough to strike. He's just saying that shit to lure Alex in, but make no mistake he's shooting for those legs right away. Alex has too many easy KO's on the feet for him to think he'll be that guy. The other guys he fought, he actually did have a chance on the feet, but with Alex he has absolutely no chance.

​@colecampbell1906 I believe that's Ankalaevs strategy too. He has to wrestle and knows that

​@@colecampbell1906He's friends with Islam, so I'd hope he'd listen to his advice of wrestling Alex.

​@@MrJSyerit is mma then why do people hate when fighter does mma

@@colecampbell1906jan also said that he would strike with alex and he shot for a takedown immediately

You might be spot on there mate. If this was Alex's first 205 fight then yeah he has a good shot but Alex has grown fully into 205 and is actually getting better at defensive wrestling

extremely doubtful, we haven't even seen him in there with a specialist grappler since that bum he fought when he first came into the ufc. You could be right but the fact that jiri with no grappling took him down just a few months ago.. lol

Ankalaev has good control. As long as he keeps the control, he is gonna dish out damage to Alex.

@@silentassassin423 He couldn't put out an exhausted Jan. The only way Ankalaev beats Alex is via UD or by gassing Alex out with control and eventually getting a ground and pound TKO. Also, people forget how much Jan destroyed Ankalaev's legs, and Pereira has some of the greatest leg kicks in the game. I feel Ankalaev will get SOME control time, fail to finish Alex and then get caught with that left hook from hell once Pereira figures out his pattern.

​@@ceedub3966 Jiri submitted Texeira. To say he has no Grappling is a huge Stretch. There's also Jan who has 7 submissions in MMA opposed to Ankalaev who has 0

What do u expect from a wife beater

Fax...He may not be afraid to fight em....but he for sure afraid to loose.

The risk isn’t really worth the reward in his eyes.

I think we should quit sounding fucking stupid about a guy who's fought everybody the biggest names, some of the guys that were killers in their prime and quit calling him a pussy cuz he doesn't want to fight Tom aspinal. Hey yeah you fought rampage Shogun dc Gustafusun and but yeah you're a pussy cuz one guy

​@@kareemroberts3182guys already fought everybody. Not facts far from facts. MMA fans are getting stupider and dumber

He could do it very under the radar skill set

@@brettbunke9096 I agree completely. Everyone is acting like it's a foregone conclusion that Aspinall gets the W and he may well, but Blaydes is no joke.

Not a chance

@@txup92g33 well if he doesn’t wrestle he’s got very little chance he has the tools to win the fight . His fight I.Q is not great a lot of the time and he said he’s going to stand with Alex and knock him out so that’s not a smart plan. Also have to see what his submission game is

​@txup92g33 there's always a chance at hw, they can all ko each other, but it's extremely unlikely for curtis to win but you never know.

Yeah, Jiri/Jan have a chance to sub Pereira on the ground like they did on their past opponent unlike Ankalaev who have zero submission win in UFC history 😂

Jan is a much more dangerous sub threat and he couldn't submit Pereira even when he had his back

Shhhh, stay quiet so the odds get even more skewed against Alex. Easy money betting on Alex to win. We want the odds in favor of Ankalaev as much as possible.

I don't think ank will finish Alex but he has a good chance of winning a decision if he actually tries to wrestle

ankalev goes for ground and pound, not for submissions

1:37 Dana white being pereiras arm is nightmare fuel.

Tbf ank could probably take down Alex at will even in the later rounds, the problem is he might try and stand and bang like an idiot

Jan ain’t Ankalaev hahahaha

Jan has better ju jitsu so you're right.​@@shayturnbull8402

@@shayturnbull8402true. Yan can check a leg kick. Ank was hoping on one leg vs yan. Dagi boy needs to dive at the legs just to survive. 😂😂😂

and anklaev mauled jan on the ground so whats your point

Yes they are, i still laughed over BSD being the favorite against Poirier 😂

Well placed, wise man built house on stone.

You Christians talk big but always put money on the dagestanis. Better odds are all yall Christians betting

@@boris_js jesus / Allah are lies told to people who can’t think for themselves. However, Poatan is inevitable

@@boris_js Hi I'm a Christian who's name is Christian. I have never bet on a Dagestani although I have no idea what my belief system has to do with this 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

@@ChristianPerez-ku9dz You're just going for your own Mr. perez, nothing wrong with that. Alex is fucked with the first completed takedown.

Yeah, but Alex usually gets dominated on the ground.

​@@brandonamezquita4501no he always stand and won't let him submit or ground and pound if you observe.

Jon would submit him.

Agree 100% lost that fight with Reyes

Agree. If Dominic Reyes practically beat Jones, why are people doubting Pereira? 🤯

@@annejasa746 Cause Jon also subbed Gane. Ask yourself this, would Reyes get held down by Adesanya?

@@brandonamezquita4501 Reyes would probably not get held down by Adesanya but Pereira is not the same fighter from when he fought Adesanya. Not sure if you’ve noticed his ground evolution. Don’t think Jones would keep him down.

In order for Ankalaev to win, he needs to none stop chain wrestling.

He has no submission threat whatsoever. He has no sub wins and got subbed by Paul Craig of all people. This is a clean sweep and easy money.

I'd say Jan is more defensively sound on the feet due to his low kick defence but the takedown threat from Ankalaev might make Alex more hesitant on the feet which would play in Ankalaev's favour so the question is whether at that point after having his back taken by Jan in round 1 was Alex more worried of Jan taking him down or will he be more worried about Ankalaev's takedown in their fight. Either way it is not impossible to stay competitive on the feet with Alex at least enough for the grappling to potentially edge the fight your way. I think the key thing that worked in favour of Jan was the fact that, despite actually outlanding Alex in terms of headshots, he wasn't overextending himself looking for a 1 shot ko, which so far worked once for Izzy when it was Alex who went for the finish too hard, but stayed composed and made Alex think about the takedowns throughout the fight

@@tacticalmattress why would being subbed by paul craig be a reason to say "of all people"🤣 paul craig is one of the best BJJ practitioners in the fuckin sport. There's no shame in being subbed by him. You're not taking into account that Alex has rudimentary ground defense.

@@ceedub3966 "rudimentary ground defense" yet he's been subbed less than Ank... lmfao

It's by design. Then when Ankalaev gets starched in two weasel wins big on the parlay.

You must live in fantasy land cause no one is standing with Alex besides Izzy.

Lol yeah, right

dont forget he has used roids, so idk why people still call him goat. Somebody like mighty mouse can be called goat, not jones

@@LVOskarliNEhe used roids during the roids era dude. Everyone was juicing

Hes active

@@stealthyturtles there was a small window when USADA came where guys couldn't get around juicing but make no mistake the entire history of the UFC up to current day has been the roids era

Its clearly alex. He's gotten pure strikers since he ko'd that random michaeladis, the only "wrestler" hes fought in the ufc.

@@ceedub3966true but there’s not many wrestlers in light heavyweight and middleweight

@@ceedub3966everyone was saying Alex was gonna get wrestled to death by Jan before the Jan fight. Now since he failed to do that, he’s “never fought a wrestler before” COPE

And he couldn't finish one legged guy. He didn't even try! Crazy! How can you call someone as goat if he can't finish one legged guy? lul

And Gus, punched his face in pretty good , Jones beat mostly blown up middle weights. Not a Jones fan at all.

2 fights ago. how did he do against Gane? his last fight.

@@GoodStuff1992 The guy who Francis nganou laid on top of for 3 rds? Also why are you saying 2 fights ago as if it’s not one of his more recent performances 😂

it took prime jones 10 attempts to take down gus. what makes anybody think skinny fat jones can do any better against alex???

​@@GoodStuff1992gane took a dive. that was no fight. that shit was fake as wwe

@@CRT4Dummies gus actually could wrestle. who was the 1st person to take down jones? Gustafson. gus even got a takedown with DC. And gustufsson wrestled blachowicz to a victory.

Did you actually watch ank’s fights before calling him a “wrestler”

Even if he is not a pure wrestler he would still be the best wrestler Pereira has ever faced in MMA. The best wrestler Alex has fought at date Is Jan and ankalaev outwrestled Jan

Magomeds wrestling honestly isnt that great

​​@@thenedsmmachannel8970magomeds wrestling is really good, he mauled Jan at the end and arguably got 2 10-8s in the last 2 rounds. The question is whether he's actually gonna use it or not instead of boxing Pereira like an idiot

@@zarifinator1327 Dude Jan's wrestling is NOT a marker to go by. Magomed's wrestling is trash, he has no submission wins either. Cope.

@thenedsmmachannel8970 , Ankalaev dominated Jan on the ground who dominated both Pereira and Adesanya on the ground, there are also levels to grappling.

@@tacticalmattress I didn't say ank would submit Alex, I think he will win by decision. Ank has the best wrestling in the division and Alex's wrestling defense is horrible. Also why are you so mad? Did I hit a nerve? Lol

If Ank wrestled in the first round instead of waiting then he would have won, but Ank is an idiot

​@@zarifinator1327he tried repeatedly but couldn't take Jan down until the 4th round in a fight that was contracted for 3, add Jan's questionable cardio and I don't think it translates as well as you think

@@jokingbird he barely tried to wrestle in the first 3, it was entirely on the feet, and yeah, ank lost the first 3 rounds because of that. When he actually did try to wrestle he took him down effortlessly, arguably 10-8'd him twice. And Jan is not Alex when it comes to wrestling, Alex's wrestling is horrible. Also, it was a championship fight, so no it was not contracted for 3 rounds.

It's not that he's scared. Jones has fought killers before, it's not a fear thing. He's been pretty straight forward about it. Aspinall is the current champ, sure. But no one is saying that Aspinall is the greatest Heavyweight of all time like Miocic. Jones only cares about beating other legacy fighters because it makes his legacy better, regardless of the circumstances. It's just like how people praising Garry for his win over MVP even though it was a shit performance. The "win is a win" mentality is what Jones is leaning on. Jones respects Aspinall, but the level of effort needed to beat him wouldn't equate to the same impact for his legacy like the easy win over Stipe would. To Jones, being the greatest LHW of all time, and beating the greatest HW of all time as well means more to him than beating the current HW champ. But if Alex comes up and beats Aspinall, then the legacy impact of beating the current HW champ, and the first ever 3 division champ would stamp Jones as the greatest MMA fighter ever, and it would never be questioned because those circumstances will never be recreated.

​@BlahBlahFreeman beating Stipe will do nothing for his legacy. Fans will remember he had not won a fight in over 4 years and was way past his prime. Just like beating Silva did nothing for Izzy.

@@BlahBlahFreeman Yappp. You know nothing, are you living inside of Jon Jone's brain? No. So stop speculating. Actions speak louder than words and the actions show that he's scared. Tom and Alex would KO him stiff. He's too slow. Anytime Jon has faced someone with actual striking, he nearly lost. He's never faced someone on Tom or Alex's level. INB4 "Gane". Gane is a trashcan.

@@BlahBlahFreeman You're coping harder than Jones himself. He's scared, because he knows he will lose, he's too old, and too slow. He wants Stipe because it's an easy fight against essentially a retired opponent. Jones needs to be stripped of the belt for holding up the division, see what that'll do for the wife-beater's legacy.

@@BlahBlahFreemandid you miss the part where he said he won’t fight either Alex or Tom unless one of them beats the other? 😂😂😂😂eek the cope and glazing is crazy dude. Jones was good against the middle weights he fought 10+ years ago because of the age and reach adv but now when it’s actually time to put a stamp on his legacy he’s afraid to fight a real challenge. Stipe past his prime does nothing it’s like getting a win over current Tony Ferguson (sadly)

Left hand of death uppercut on the first takedown attempt just like Lewis did to Curtis.

He tried taking Jan down earlier but couldn't and only managed to do so in the 4th round when Jan was getting tired (they were supposed to fight 3 rounds that Jan won comfortably mind you) and in the 5th Jan tripped, which gave Ankalaev the position that he didn't really do all that much with considering how gassed Jan was a very dominant grappling showcase indeed ^^ not to mention that 10:8 while technically correct is rather an exception than a rule by the outdated ufc judging standards and he wasn't really that close to finishing the fight...

@@BlahBlahFreeman curtis shot that takedown from a mile away and lewis has magical stand up ability

@@jokingbird 10-8 doesnt mean the fight was close to a finish

@@jokingbirdhe didn’t, if you watch his corner they will telling him to use it more confidently, he was only trying to clinch and not put the pace, 4th and 5th he set up those takedowns perfectly

100%. I have no idea what the strategy for Team Ikram in that fight? He needed to impose offensive grappling to set up integrated takedowns with selective striking. Ikram never even gave himself a chance to win that fight on short notice lol. Hope the lost didn't ruin him for good because that was negligence on part of his coaching and management team

@@cliffordrose4335it’s not a video game you don’t just press the takedown button lol

@@dylanwright9927 merab, Khabib, askren, and Khamzat all became successful with that strategy

True, but Aliskerov was on short notice and was fighting Whittaker who has good wrestling and was preparing for Khamzat's takedowns, he probably knew he couldn't take Whittaker down without setting up a takedown.

@@dylanwright9927 That is an absolutely braindead response to someone who actually seems to understand the sport, poatard for sure.

Who's he training with to stop takedowns? Glover isnt enough.

​@ceedub3966 nice yelp review.

Keep standing straight up like that..anybody who has a blast double leg like Aspinall is getting him down

@@MrHorsesongs05 dorky ass reply instead of something relevant, yep clearly a poatard newfan.

@@ceedub3966Glover did something ankalaev failed to Submit Jan early and win Title

Also last time Jones submitted someone was years before, but he easily submitted Gane after 3 years time off, because Gane has 0 wrestling and grappling, similar to Pereira. There are levels to that.

And couldn't take Jan down once in the first 3 rounds despite trying repeatedly which the fight was contracted for btw (which is at least somewhat important as Jan's cardio is a little sus). Also in the fifth Jan tripped before Ankalaev even touched him so that speaks more to Jan being gassed than Ankalaev's amazing takedowns. Also the damage in round 5 wasn't anything special like you make it out to be. You are not fooling anyone with the "I'm not a fan of Dagestani fighters" line ^^ edit I guess I forgot about that takedown 10 seconds before the 3rd round ended that at that point he couldn't even do anything with so kudos for going 1 of 7 on takedown attempts in the first 3 rounds 🤷

Idk about that, Ank was the only one who looked beat up at the end. Also gotta factor in that Jan beat the shit out of him with leg kicks too, he could hardly stand after that. Alex leg kicks are the best leg kicks in the entire sport. He also doesn't have the striking Jan has to close that distance and get the takedown, so he's more liable to get clipped in the mean time. Then there's the fact that he's only been training it more and getting better. He doesn't need to know everything, he just needs to know how to survive to the end of the round, which based on both of them fighting Jan, he absolutely can. Then next round they're back on the feet and he's liable to spark him.

I just rewatched it, Jan did an amazing job blocking in round 5 and his face was clean at the end of the fight. He also landed some good elbows from bottom.

​@@timurjack8773jones tapped gane because gane took a dive. that shit was scripted.

Alex lost the first round to Jiri in their first fight, he still knocked him out???

@@Red-mc5ee does Walker have the same chin as Jiri?

@@Red-mc5ee And he lost mostly via grappling.

Please bratha you don’t believe

And he even got controlled by them.

People's gut said Jiri both times. Alex proved them wrong. He will do the same against Magomed, then he will knock fat Jones tf out to become the greatest of all time.

Brutal comment 😭😭😭