@@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
I think his survivability is underrated. He knows he has a hard frame to advance and he can slow down the takedown and guard passes till the round ends. Even with Jan on his back he just stayed calm and survived instead of giving up his neck to get up
His TDD isn’t the best (or the worst for that matter), but his survivability on the ground is underrated. He hardly takes any damage and has gotten out of deep submission attempts.
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
@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.
@@ryomen____yagamiJan 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.
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. @@ryomen____yagami
@@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.
People need to wake up and realise that even the worst ufc fighter has decent everything,being in the ufc is a sign that these guys are all well rounded,they just use one component more than the others because it's their strong suit
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.
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
@@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.
Jan who is a good grappler exhausted himself in 1 round trying to lay on Pereira so I'd say AP has good grappling defense for the short time he has been training mma so far.
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.
@@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
people trashing on Pereira's grappling is bullshit. from the beginning, he had enough to deal with all his opponents and, bad news guys: he's evolving. and he evolves fast as hell.
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.
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
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.
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
All you really need to know is that he always gets people off his back and he rarely takes any shots from ground and pound just because he has a decent defensive guard, and to add to that ge often is able to get back to his feet without being saved by the bell.
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.
After 2 years or more of nothing but working with Glover and now Damien Maia someone like Alex can 100% develop enough skills to not be worried about the best in the world
lhw and hw has lack of good grapplers. and even good grapplers don't use their grappling becuse they have KO power. Only Jailton Almeida is usuing his grappling consistently.
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.
He has improved it since for sure, but i would like to see him take some time off and work JUST on that grappling department, the takedown defense and come back , coz any of the next 3 opponents he might face have very very good grappling.
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.
The longer these LHWs let him go without trying to take him down, the harder it gets to take him down. Another year or two and he will have been grappling for a decade.
People also seem to underrate his cardio and his stamina recovery, too. They're fairly good for what he needs to do -- pick you apart, survive being grappled until he can be back to his bread & butter.
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
@@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.
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
If he can improve it just a bit maybe a year from now and especially if Jones continues to be inactive I am putting my money on Alex to knock him out if or when they fight.
It really doesn’t matter at the heavier weights where guys can spark one another with a jab. LHW has been one of the weaker divisions historically, the skill gap is large even between the top 5. Alex is an elite striker, who can strike with elite MWs, so the gap between his striking ability vs much a much slower LHW’s only minimizes the takedown threat further. Also, a lifetime kickboxer that not having the TDD of a guy who has been in MMA/wrestling for the majority of his career isn’t shocking. And to add, the clench is part of grappling, which Pereira does well in, this title should be “Pereira’s TDD & BJJ is….”. It’s okay, the majority of UFC fans not understanding combat sports is a long time tradition. When you’re fight analysts are Rogan & D.C., it’s honestly not your fault
Pereira is such an amazing fighter. That being said, once he is down he really struggles to get up, spending a lot energy trying to get back up to his feet. Someone above average could bully him one the ground. Can't blame him, only two years into the sport compared to people who's done most of their life, he is picking it up quickly. If he gets just a bit better on the ground he will be unstoppable...
When you hear someone from the top 10 has "weak ground game" or something like that - it doesn't mean they are bad at it. They still have better MMA grappling than like 90% of the UFC, but there are just guys that are still way better at it, cause for example it's their main weapon or they are more balanced fighters.
+ 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.
He has a 100% takedown accuracy. Best grappler in the UFC 🗿
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
@@Chupacabra_4 That is why I said he did, he doesn't anymore. He could have progressed faster
I think his survivability is underrated. He knows he has a hard frame to advance and he can slow down the takedown and guard passes till the round ends. Even with Jan on his back he just stayed calm and survived instead of giving up his neck to get up
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?
Doctor: Alex Permagomedov isnt real he cant hurt you
Alex Permagomedov: 1:33
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hilarious
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3:33 Alex Oliveira with a heel hook
His TDD isn’t the best (or the worst for that matter), but his survivability on the ground is underrated. He hardly takes any damage and has gotten out of deep submission attempts.
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.
He's gotta a great left hook submission game
That should warrant him a black belt
Imagine Tom Aspinal thinks he has a chance against Poatan because of the takedown lolol
@@chiquita683Tom would wreak Alex.
@@chiquita683you dont?
Clearly good enough.
Against strikers
lol
@@ryomen____yagamiJan 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. @@ryomen____yagami
I mean, he won all of those fights
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
If Ankalaev actually won't wrestle him then UFC fighters have double digit IQ
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
good enough for light heavyweight
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.
People need to wake up and realise that even the worst ufc fighter has decent everything,being in the ufc is a sign that these guys are all well rounded,they just use one component more than the others because it's their strong suit
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?
nice submissions compilation at the end.
Yeah, those ones earned him a black belt.
Bro had to sneak the last seconds of rd 1 periera vs izzy in there
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.
Jan who is a good grappler exhausted himself in 1 round trying to lay on Pereira so I'd say AP has good grappling defense for the short time he has been training mma so far.
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?
people trashing on Pereira's grappling is bullshit. from the beginning, he had enough to deal with all his opponents and, bad news guys: he's evolving. and he evolves fast as hell.
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
100% takedown accuracy 😎
Look at izzy's TD: he:s countering some judo bshit, kind of osoto gari or harai goshi stuff
DC is right in that his psychical strength looks totally ridiculous
Wouldn’t say it’s the worst but as we see, it’s improving now
Still baffled how he got a black belt from a KO
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
His strength must be unbelievable to just carry Jan Blachowicz with a fully locked in body triangle on his back like that.
Reminds me a bit of Anderson Silva, very defensive grappling to take the least amount of damage. Exactly what's needed for him.
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.
Submission via flying knee
People aren't able to comprehend how fast he is improving. I seriously doubt he is wasting a lot of time learning submissions and sweeps either.
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
The new khabib
🤣
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
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Submission via left hook
Pereira lost every grappling exchange in this video, but won all the fights in this video
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
4:28 Pereira’s best takedown
He gets his back taken a lot but he appears to know how to defend the choke and get back to his feet
You don’t have to be good at all aspects of wrestling you just have to be good at not being taken down
His grappling is getting so much better and he's learning judo from kayla harrison
The fact that he got back up when izzy couldn't against jan already shows his strength at 205
Jan was 40 and he fot robbed.
All you really need to know is that he always gets people off his back and he rarely takes any shots from ground and pound just because he has a decent defensive guard, and to add to that ge often is able to get back to his feet without being saved by the bell.
Black belt bjj 🔥🔥
vice versa actually
big black bjj
His grappling must be great if none of these guys can sub him
None of these guys are good at submissions
And the most incredible thing is that he has already evolved much more than he showed in these fights in the video.
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.
He is very tall always taller than all his opponent
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.
i like how the video ends with perfect wrestling skills
After 2 years or more of nothing but working with Glover and now Damien Maia someone like Alex can 100% develop enough skills to not be worried about the best in the world
lhw and hw has lack of good grapplers. and even good grapplers don't use their grappling becuse they have KO power. Only Jailton Almeida is usuing his grappling consistently.
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.
Of course it’s decent he probably works on it mostly now since he maxed out in striking
I really thought that Silva vs Pereira fight was amazing
Understand that Alex is getting trained by one of the best MMA grapplers of all time.
Understand that my dick and balls have more rear naked chokes than Alex
Ankalaev, Aspinall and Jones would be the only ones who would cause problems
It’s fine he’s a black belt in bjj
Chama 🔥
"The best takedown is a left hook"
-Left Hook Larry
That guillotine on Jiri was tight. Not even Glover could submit Jiri so that was actually nice
he’s been in 3 title fights and hasn’t taken damage at all. LHW too. he will walk over khalil, but if he does so as well with ank that means moving up
He has improved it since for sure, but i would like to see him take some time off and work JUST on that grappling department, the takedown defense and come back , coz any of the next 3 opponents he might face have very very good grappling.
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 has the Chuck Liddell style, just defend the takedowns, and quickly get back on your feet if you are taken down.
The longer these LHWs let him go without trying to take him down, the harder it gets to take him down. Another year or two and he will have been grappling for a decade.
His grappling gets good after every round
That fight against Silva was so good. I don't think people realize this, but that fight really changed Bruno Silva unfortunately
after submitting hill via rear naked hook, and putting jiri to sleep via gogohighkick, we all know alex has the most underrated BJJ skills in ufc.
pereira, wonderboy, and MVP are all strikers that turn strikers into wrestlers
It's all fun until he faces an elite grappler like Jon Jones, Ankalyev, Chimaev. All these dudes in the video have 0 grappling. It's just a bad joke
he is black belt in theory lol
People also seem to underrate his cardio and his stamina recovery, too. They're fairly good for what he needs to do -- pick you apart, survive being grappled until he can be back to his bread & butter.
Don’t they come out of the womb grappling in Brazil?
Crazy to think that the guy who poses the most risk to Poatan in grapling, in a way, was Adesanya
It was 1, 2 years ago. Nowadays his Grappling is much better.
defiance is very good
When his opponents get some control through takedowns, they do very little damage while wearing themselves out.
his grappling is good or bad??
Why nobody understands that trying to KO pereira is like trying to submit Olviera or is like trying to take Khabib down
3:35 that elbow from Alex must have fucking hurt
By now, Pereira probably has at least 4 years training in this area with Glover.
Defensively he seems pretty good so far
His grappling has improved i will say that. I think he will be 100% ready for Ankalaev and the rematch with Jan if it happens
middleweight, light heavy weight and heavyweight are so much worse than lightweight, bantamweight, welterwight etc skillwise
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.
AP's grappling is not great,but his grappling defense continues to improve. He still had Izzy trying to wrestle and submit him,lol.
it's not necessarily bad... but it's definitely more anti-grappling than grappling-grappling
His best takedown is the left hook
Just planted the strickland one randomly in there 😂😂😂
1:06 i think he could've have pulled a Jon Jones vs Lyoto Machida on that guillotine, that looked tight
Crazy how people still don't know he's a bjj black belt
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
a lot of people don't know but he is a black belt in BJJ
Exceptional fighters
If he can improve it just a bit maybe a year from now and especially if Jones continues to be inactive I am putting my money on Alex to knock him out if or when they fight.
He’s really good, he’s just a way better striker people🤷🏼 stop tripping
I've been saying this, everyone thinks the grappling sucks because he doesn't use it. He trains with Glover, the best submission artist at LHW
He was getting taken down repeatedly by Juan Blachovitz who is a striker, so that means he isn't much of a wrestler.
Damn, he got taken down by a bunch of strikers.
He still can learn and hope it going well
Plus he is getting better
They can take him down but they all do 0 damage to him on the ground. And they tire themselves out trying to sub him.
The best grappling you can have is a left hook. He beat everyone in this video 😂😂
Eazy did more damage than all of them combined
Guarantee he’ll b better 12 months from now!
I wonder what Jan is doing. He was the mister left hook before Pereira
Amazing. Hes a black belt in bjj
It really doesn’t matter at the heavier weights where guys can spark one another with a jab. LHW has been one of the weaker divisions historically, the skill gap is large even between the top 5. Alex is an elite striker, who can strike with elite MWs, so the gap between his striking ability vs much a much slower LHW’s only minimizes the takedown threat further. Also, a lifetime kickboxer that not having the TDD of a guy who has been in MMA/wrestling for the majority of his career isn’t shocking.
And to add, the clench is part of grappling, which Pereira does well in, this title should be “Pereira’s TDD & BJJ is….”. It’s okay, the majority of UFC fans not understanding combat sports is a long time tradition. When you’re fight analysts are Rogan & D.C., it’s honestly not your fault
and he is improving...most of the others in his division are stagnating...he is definitely getting better every day...the others don't
he has Glover Teixeira as a coach, it can't be bad
Everytime he lands on his hips , 99% of the times he's found a way to get up with support of the cage , or scramble and get up
Impressionante como todo striker vira grapler contra ele KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
can tell the guy who made this is an izzy fan cause of that lat quick clip of them
Honestly, I think he doesn’t have long before he has chuck Liddell like defense
The man can learn and learn fast, he'll be a phenom.
Pereira is such an amazing fighter. That being said, once he is down he really struggles to get up, spending a lot energy trying to get back up to his feet. Someone above average could bully him one the ground. Can't blame him, only two years into the sport compared to people who's done most of their life, he is picking it up quickly. If he gets just a bit better on the ground he will be unstoppable...
When you hear someone from the top 10 has "weak ground game" or something like that - it doesn't mean they are bad at it. They still have better MMA grappling than like 90% of the UFC, but there are just guys that are still way better at it, cause for example it's their main weapon or they are more balanced fighters.
+ 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.
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