I heard the "he doesn't have a chin " narrative, countered by other people saying it was the result of the weight cut to 185. He definitely absorbed life altering shots from rountree during their fight and survived those.
There was that one stomach Kick he took that kind of stun them for a second. I don't know why Rountree didn't go back to that but yeah. If there was ever a fight to show us that Alex can take a hit it was last nights fight. @@kev30631
Yea the guy is crazy. What you're seeing some of it is the power of belief. He's got his shaman thing going on and I think he thinks he's got the power. He's fighting a little too often. It's a real head turner thinking of what to do with him next. I think it makes sense to throw him in with Aspinal while he's got this momentum. See what he can do. You lose nothing. He could do that and not even lose his light heavyweight belt.
@@serv-on idk about that.. he is just a very defensive counter-striker.. but when he gets his opponents hurt he goes in for the finish. Ciryl finished the black beast & went the distance with Francis Ngannou. Never seen him get beat up on the feet yet. That’s why I feel seeing arguably the best 2 kickboxers in UFC History fight each other would be very interesting.
@@kev30631just because you people idolize and create an emotional attachment to these people, doesn't mean they're the greatest of all time. You people suffer from recency bias.
Poatan is becoming the modern day Anderson Silva. Not in terms of the level and breadth of skill and dynamics/variety/creativity, but in terms of being the most feared striker in the UFC, who's basically guaranteed to finish and finish brutally. Anderson Silva was SCARY. He was dominant. He was lethal, with the ability to KO at any given point in the fight. And Poatan has earned the same type of reputation and he is an unwavering competitor. Adesanya was thought to be the next striker who would be the spiritual successor to Silva, but he lost his finishing instinct and became a "play it safe" fighter after he became champion. Alex always seeks to finish, and has succeeded with the only exception being Adedanya 2 and Jan. I really think he's the closest thing to Anderson Silva we've seen since he's been gone.
And the fact that he fought and defeated guys like adesanya and jan when he was relatively new to mma. It's crazy to think about it, he was a much inferior version of what he is right now
How many fighters have you ever seen fight as well as Rountree did and still end up battered and beaten? Poatan is just an exceptional and one of a kind striker. I personally didn't know who would win, because I knew Rountree could take a punch and is a powerful and quick striker too. Plus he's a good wrestler.
Standing: Poatan mercilessly destroys Jon Jones. On the ground: Jones is dominant over Poatan. Balance of champions. The only fighter in history who hit as hard as Poatan was Fedor.....
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Even when uncle’iav fought Thiago, he couldn’t take him down. Thiago actually got on top of Magomed with ground and pound. Compare that with what Hill did to Thiago on the ground. He’s from a kickboxing gym in Dagestan and does fight camps out of xtreme couture. People just hear Dagestan and think he trained with Abdulmanap lol
Magomed is one of best strikers in the light heavyweight division. Most he's ever shot takedowns was 2 times in a fight. Against Jan. Even then, Jan's leg was as beat up bad because magomed checked every kick. Jan just kept going shin to shin. Even in amateur Akhmat FC magomed never shoots a takedown. He wasn't raised on wrestling with wrestling gas tank. He's kickboxing prodigy of his coach Sukhrab Magomedov. I do not think he will risk gassing out with grappling. He said that's why he didn't wrestle Thiago. He didn't want to gas out against him. Chael is actually right for once. He is literally not a wrestler. It's a narrative made by commentators and casual fans.
Little tip for you Chael, don't take it the wrong way. Pereira would be better pronounced puh" + "ray" + "rah". The r has a little roll too, but that's not too important, Brazilians are used to it. It's not Pah-HAY-rah either, but that's a Joe Rogan issue 😅
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Look how close he came, if he woulda connected a couple more times he coulda won with a knockout, rocked him good once. He did waaaaay better than anyone but adesanyas rematch.
@@kengrand5445Jones should fight a interim champ in his division and after that maybe fight with Alex if he is a champ in LHW division. You just want to see one fight and U don't care about the whole division.
@RocknrollaBlitz the devision will sort itself out...but the fight I want to see the most would be him vs jones...I'm sure both jon & Alex would be glad to do a big money fight & even you would be eager to watch it
Legendary Alex poatan Pereira achieved so much both in Glory kickboxing and now in UFC within short period of time that lots of fighters can only dream About that type of achievements
He won me over! I didn’t care for him and loved Izzy. After seeing him take so many championship fights on just a couple weeks notice and his ability to cut to middle weight and actually beat the champion. He’s currently a doubly champ who has beat 2 previous champs who never lost the belt. He beat 1 twice and he beat the other on like 3 weeks notice with a broken foot. I honestly think he can beat Aspinal! They walk around nearly the same weight. Could you imagine Pereira bulking clean and eating more to add muscle to that lean leant frame he would be a beast at heavyweight! His body and frame can easily add 20 lbs of muscle and stay lean when he’s spent his whole life trying to keep his weight down. He would gain weight easy since he probably dieting to some degree year round staying in fight shape
There are only 2 things that separate Jon Jones from any other G.O.A.T contender. 1) Undefeated 2) Longevity . Every fight since March 19 of 2011 has been for a title . 15 in a row and as soon as he steps into the octagon with Stipe that will be 16 fights in a row where a title was on the line. For 13 years straight every fight has been for a title and each time he has walked away with that belt. Edit: everyone in here commenting on Reyes needs to look at Reyes current streak. Almost everyone that faces Jon goes on a losing streak and is never the same fighter they were before hand. Maybe you think Reyes won but the record book will forever show that he lost. 60 years from now when you’re all dead and they look back at the only 2 division champion to fight for 16 years without losing and having 16 title fights there will be no discussion about who was the G.O.A.T
You can say that he had decisions go his way that should have went the other way but these other guys in the discussion(Pereira) have been flatlined. I don't think that Jon has ever been knocked on his ass.
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After this PPV is anyone believing that UFC is becoming like PRIDE & WWE with predetermined results specially after Almeida didn’t lose any points after 5 eye pokes . The ref was also separating them after a few second like is boxing
Maybe it's just me but I think the GOAT of MMA should have better than brown belt level grappling and know what a double-leg takedown is. This whole run has been so blatantly manufactured that it's hard to take any GOAT talk seriously. Still love Poatan, but he had an opponent who did not even try to test his weakest area. That's like if an NBA team refused to take 3s against another team and went only for dunks instead "for the fans" lmao
@@_DioBrando_ did you have been in Glover Teixeira gym ? You really think a Brazilian dont know about submission? Gregory Rodrigues is a BJJ world champion he was doing sparring with Poatan and said that many people dont know how good his grappling is. And he trained BJJ even doing kickboxing if you dont know
The last quarter of the video is my favorite aspect of Poaton. He actually fights! In a day and age when top athletes retire for minimum of 18 months between fights, this REAL champion fights.
This fight went nothing like Chael predicted… he said Alex would win every round but Rountree would just need to find that single moment to knock him out, and he said he would. Instead, Rountree came out swinging and won every round until he gassed out and Alex went beast mode.
At this point, let him do whatever he wants. He's the king of the UFC. Watching him knock out a heavyweight would be more impressive than anything else at the moment. I already don't see anybody beating him in LHW.
Kickboxers saved the sport and made it exciting. Let’s not forget that Israel Adesanya was active for 3 years and faced the most dangerous opponents in the MW division. Glory fighters are just built differently
Sean Strickland played it safe. He became friends with the guy who beat him. I’ve been fighting all my life in the streets,I can only become friends with the guy who beat me if I beat him back
I could really care less about Izzy, but his win over Pereira is truly aging better and better. Izzy gets smoked at 205 pounds against him but the win at 85 can’t be taken away from him especially when Alex hints at possibly going back down to 85.
Alex isn't dynamic? What are you smoking Chael? The guy throws combinations, uses the muay thai clinche, he basically made calf kicks meta, he throws flying kicks, teeps, etc. The guy is extremely dynamic.
I 100% agree you can't say John is the greatest for multiple reasons but Alex is on a different level. The man is trying to fight 3-4 times a year and taking on the best people. I'm a GSP fan and think he's the best ever but Alex is pushing that
Alex is the total package from an appeal standpoint. He is honorable, scary, fights a pleasing style, and will fight absolutely anybody at any weight class, no questions asked. He is my favorite fighter, and brings the credibility to the business guys like Jones, McGregor, O'Malley, Adesanya, Cejudi, whoever, lacks. And he doesn't come off like a gimmick like Jiri, even. He is like a Brazilian Don Frye, and we should enjoy the ride, because he is also not a young man in fighting years.
After last night, I wouldn't bet against Alex at any weight. I guess Tom has the best chance and I wouldn't count out JJ, but I don't think I'd BET against him!
I think he's more compromised to get knocked out at 185, because of the weight cut. But staying at 205 or going to heavyweight , I agree is his best course.
Damn uncle Sonnen, I would've thought someone like you would take full control of the first minute of their video and not have a full on ad before content
Uncle chael you cannot dictate 'Poatan', you are not the one calling the shot, also does Ankalaev. Alex is the champion and superstar right now, he's calling the shot, he can do whatever he like.
Ankalaeve has an average of 1 takedown and a 31% takedown accuracy he is not a wrestler and the only submission he has is a LOSS. I do not get fans saying its the grappling/wrestling that gets him over especially, with those stats
It’s fascinated to hear how neither Chael nor mma fans in general get what they are seeing with Alex. First, Alex is NOT a great striker. Not even close. If you were to put Pereira in a boxing ring with a world class cruiserweight - his chin jutting out unprotected and hands at chest level and zero defence - he would get smoked in seconds (lest we forget how he DID get starched by Izzy when attacking/leaving himself wide open). Second, the only reason mma fans believe that Potan is some sort of striking god is that mma striking has traditionally been DIRE - hence he represents at least a step up from the very low level seen to date. But it’s still a low bar. Indeed, it’s why elite level wrestlers were able to spin that old erroneous ‘wrestling is the base of mma’ trope for so long - as you had very high level wrestlers/ju jutsu competing v VERY low level strikers. Yet once the level of striker improves - think Whittaker, Wonderboy, Potan, Max, Sean, Jan - then wrestlers will always struggle to take them down/ survive. Indeed, be in no doubt if elite boxers like a Canelo, Dubois, Usyk, Tank Davis were to properly transition - as all individual combat athletes must do when going to mma - then the level of striking (stand up has long been every fan and Dana’s style of choice) would just go through the roof/wrestling would be further exposed as a second-rate fight discipline - and the old one on every fight starting on feet would be realised. Hence sorry Chael my old mucker - - another wrestler who long dissed boxing having never fought an elite boxer/having never understood it. Yet your chosen discipline is a dying one in the octagon - strikers like Max, Sean, Tom, Potan, Izzy, Topuria, Jan and so many more showing even today’s moderately improved strikers now have the number on those ground specialists in the majority many divisions. Lastly, nobody will be more happy on that than White himself - a guy who now openly hates on anybody going to the ground/threatens guys who wont stand/trade with expulsion from the UFC. Yep, that’s all the good but NOT great Potan has been showing us about the evolution of an mma once considered a vehicle for the wonders of wrestling/ju jitsu but NOW more a place where everybody just wants the ref to…. ‘Stand em up’
I think the blueprint for beating this guy has to include elite wrestling and ground pounding with good cardio. Unless you get lucky and catch him standing up with a shot like Adesania has done.
When it comes to facing other strikers & brawlers.. sure… but Alex barely - rarely fights wrestlers or bjj opponents. Hard to judge him as an overall mma fighter just yet.
Aside from Ankalaev there aren't really any at LHW and he's not even much of a wrestler himself. Jones is the only real credentialed wrestler you'd have any kind of chance at seeing him face and those prospects are slim, Alex probably only has a year or so left in the sport at this point lol. He's almost 40. You can't hold opponents that don't exist against him.
@@cineris2389 You are 💯 correct… I wasn’t denying his positioning in the rankings.. there’s no taking away from his accomplishments.. but I’m critiquing his skills as a overall mixed martial artist for the exact reason you stated. That there aren’t many bjj, judo, or wrestling opponent threats currently in the UFC’s heavyweight divisions top 10. Thus far he has defeated everyone solely by having superior striking skills. Which judging based off his kickboxing credentials most already knew he would be better than most when it comes to striking.
Fun fact, Jan bkahcovitz clearly won that fight with Alex Pierra. That decision was clearly rigged, that fight changed the course of Alex’s career. He would not have gotten the title shot if they didn’t give him the decision. Somehow that’s been erased from history lol. Also: no one is beating Alex in a kickboxing fight. That’s like someone fighting DC and deciding to have a wrestling match with him. No one would ever do that. But with kickboxing, apparently everyone in mma thinks they can strike with a glory champ. I don’t get it.
I predict for you uncle Chael... DDP at 205 will be the end of Alex Pereira! I'm just sharing for you that Alex has not faced a true rounded MMA fighter that could match him with the striking but also could dominate him on the ground. Not for nothing, DDP is a K1 kickboxing champion but also an elite grappler with an Iron chin. We have not seen anyone force AP to fight on the back foot!
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Poaton carrying the UFC on his back, saving card after card, firework’s every time
I don't know who this 'Payerrah' fella is, but if Chael is talking this highly about him, he must be good.
He doesn't even try
Hes a racist. @adamm3492
I heard the "he doesn't have a chin " narrative, countered by other people saying it was the result of the weight cut to 185.
He definitely absorbed life altering shots from rountree during their fight and survived those.
There was that one stomach Kick he took that kind of stun them for a second. I don't know why Rountree didn't go back to that but yeah. If there was ever a fight to show us that Alex can take a hit it was last nights fight. @@kev30631
@@corymcdonald1369he probably was tired
ALEX PEREIRA IS THE BEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO THE UFC AFTER CONOR MCGREGOR!!!! This guy is carrying the UFC completely by himself!
True, we finally have someone that appeals to the casuals that only want to see striking in mma
Chilllll
@@james-bx4wr so belal, merab, Bautista are for expert level fans ?? That's a snooze fest like up
Very True.
He became what we hoped khamzat would've became fame wise
Alex Pereira has not only Won the Light Weight Belt 10 months ago, he has defended that belt 3 more times within winning it.
CRAZY!!
Yea the guy is crazy. What you're seeing some of it is the power of belief. He's got his shaman thing going on and I think he thinks he's got the power. He's fighting a little too often. It's a real head turner thinking of what to do with him next. I think it makes sense to throw him in with Aspinal while he's got this momentum. See what he can do. You lose nothing. He could do that and not even lose his light heavyweight belt.
He never won the lightweight belt
Yes, at 155 pounds, which is Light Weight, Alex is amazing. ;)
He won bantam before too, crazy weight cut/gain on that one
Alex defended Jan having his back for almost 5 minutes an to be fair that wasn’t the best Alex it was his first 205 fight
“Alex Pereira vs Ciryl Gane” would be a guaranteed 🔥 heavyweight scrap.
I been saying the same damn thing !!
Nah Gane would get dropped, dude fights scared
@@serv-on he fights literally like Alex.
@@rubenjaimes1194 lol did you actually watch Ganes fights? Dude was scared in every big match and is nowhere near as fast and precise as Alex.
@@serv-on idk about that.. he is just a very defensive counter-striker.. but when he gets his opponents hurt he goes in for the finish. Ciryl finished the black beast & went the distance with Francis Ngannou. Never seen him get beat up on the feet yet. That’s why I feel seeing arguably the best 2 kickboxers in UFC History fight each other would be very interesting.
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Raycheck is the best fighter in the UFC 😂
“He’s never gotten a take down if you look past the time he did” 😂😂 brilliant
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"Alex... Pierra. Guys what do we think about this?"
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Okay great
Hard to think while in getting things mansplained.
Alex P is definitely the UFC fan favorite atm, his activity and performances are amazing.
MMA Fighter of the year. Give him his trophy already.
I agree
@@kev30631just because you people idolize and create an emotional attachment to these people, doesn't mean they're the greatest of all time. You people suffer from recency bias.
@@OrangeHeadTM fighter of the year doesn't mean "greatest of all time".
It means specifically "fighter of the Year".
Poatan is becoming the modern day Anderson Silva. Not in terms of the level and breadth of skill and dynamics/variety/creativity, but in terms of being the most feared striker in the UFC, who's basically guaranteed to finish and finish brutally. Anderson Silva was SCARY. He was dominant. He was lethal, with the ability to KO at any given point in the fight. And Poatan has earned the same type of reputation and he is an unwavering competitor. Adesanya was thought to be the next striker who would be the spiritual successor to Silva, but he lost his finishing instinct and became a "play it safe" fighter after he became champion. Alex always seeks to finish, and has succeeded with the only exception being Adedanya 2 and Jan. I really think he's the closest thing to Anderson Silva we've seen since he's been gone.
And the fact that he fought and defeated guys like adesanya and jan when he was relatively new to mma.
It's crazy to think about it, he was a much inferior version of what he is right now
No, hes not lmao. All you NPCs are suffering from artificial glazing and recency bias.
I think 1 more defence, and Alex will go from Poatan to Goatan
*The stone goat*
Chael, respect you as a fighter, and even more as a MMA analyst, but didn’t hear you admit you were wrong by saying Rountree would win over Poatan
How many fighters have you ever seen fight as well as Rountree did and still end up battered and beaten? Poatan is just an exceptional and one of a kind striker. I personally didn't know who would win, because I knew Rountree could take a punch and is a powerful and quick striker too. Plus he's a good wrestler.
@@happyhapley Rountree is a monster
He did won in a parallel universe...Chael has never lost a prediction...
Video starts at 1:06
Standing: Poatan mercilessly destroys Jon Jones.
On the ground: Jones is dominant over Poatan. Balance of champions.
The only fighter in history who hit as hard as Poatan was Fedor.....
Ngannou?
Tank Abbott? Marc Hunt? Anthony Johnson...there are guys.
Fedor fought cans.
Im glad Raychick is still in title discussion
People keep saying he’s never fought a wrestler like he didn’t fight Jan
Because Jan is not a wrestler, he’s a striker with decent grappling
@@demon4874nah Jan has good wrestling, we arent gonna pretend its just decent
he did tho, 2 times at least that i remember since he begun on mma
Jan is not a wrestler, but anyone with even decent wrestling skill probably looks like D1 level when Perreira is involved lol
@@demon4874Jan took down and dominated Izzy on the ground which no one does, and Pereira beat him. Ufc fans are thicle
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“Raychick” (Rakic) 😂😂😂 Uncle Chael here butchering names😂
Uncle Aet/An Goliath is what I kept hearing from Ankalaev. Wild.
Unclealive got me
Wasn’t Chael saying Alex was gonna get smashed now all of sudden he’s riding the Chama wave 🌊 😂
Even when uncle’iav fought Thiago, he couldn’t take him down. Thiago actually got on top of Magomed with ground and pound. Compare that with what Hill did to Thiago on the ground.
He’s from a kickboxing gym in Dagestan and does fight camps out of xtreme couture. People just hear Dagestan and think he trained with Abdulmanap lol
Uncle Iav vs Uncle Chael would be a close one
I agree that Ankalaev isn't a wrestler, but he has more than enough wrestling skills to handle Poatan.
Magomed is one of best strikers in the light heavyweight division. Most he's ever shot takedowns was 2 times in a fight. Against Jan. Even then, Jan's leg was as beat up bad because magomed checked every kick. Jan just kept going shin to shin. Even in amateur Akhmat FC magomed never shoots a takedown. He wasn't raised on wrestling with wrestling gas tank. He's kickboxing prodigy of his coach Sukhrab Magomedov. I do not think he will risk gassing out with grappling. He said that's why he didn't wrestle Thiago. He didn't want to gas out against him. Chael is actually right for once. He is literally not a wrestler. It's a narrative made by commentators and casual fans.
POATAN
=
TONG PO
( The villain in 80's movie with Jean Claude VD, KICKBOXER)
I've said that too bro lol
He also reminds me of Sagat from Street fighter
We literally been tried telling you but you were too focused on falsely promoting O’Malley.
The greatest Indigenous fighter ever !
He's mostly Portuguese
Não, não é
Little tip for you Chael, don't take it the wrong way. Pereira would be better pronounced puh" + "ray" + "rah".
The r has a little roll too, but that's not too important, Brazilians are used to it.
It's not Pah-HAY-rah either, but that's a Joe Rogan issue 😅
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Alex Pereira is the greatest MMA striker and Kickboxer of all time, and the true definition of a fighter
Congratulations Pereira from Uzbekistan!
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Chael how did you pick Roundtree over Poatan smh
Look how close he came, if he woulda connected a couple more times he coulda won with a knockout, rocked him good once. He did waaaaay better than anyone but adesanyas rematch.
I heard people like luke Thomas state that Alex had him figured out by the end of round 2. So it was just a matter of breaking rountree down further.
@@serv-ononly rocked alex when he missed that question mark kick and had his back turnt too khalil
Great point, Ankalaev is not a grappler he’s a striker. I keep forgetting. Maybe Ankalaev is around MMA and not a kickboxer.
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Red panty night is still real
but what is a guy to doooooooo? (in that whiney tone he makes)
I want him move up & fight jon jones...thats the big money fight...at his age if i was him, I'll be going after the money
Jones will destroy him
@@bc8142-t1e I don't care who will destroy who...that's not the point...that's the fight I want to see
@@kengrand5445Jones should fight a interim champ in his division and after that maybe fight with Alex if he is a champ in LHW division. You just want to see one fight and U don't care about the whole division.
@RocknrollaBlitz the devision will sort itself out...but the fight I want to see the most would be him vs jones...I'm sure both jon & Alex would be glad to do a big money fight & even you would be eager to watch it
Jones still fights?
Legendary Alex poatan Pereira achieved so much both in Glory kickboxing and now in UFC within short period of time that lots of fighters can only dream About that type of achievements
Everything chael said becomes a background voice of a alex Pereira's highlight reel
Who's Raychick?
I think she did break dancing in the Olympics, right?
Lmfao
Rakic
He won me over! I didn’t care for him and loved Izzy. After seeing him take so many championship fights on just a couple weeks notice and his ability to cut to middle weight and actually beat the champion. He’s currently a doubly champ who has beat 2 previous champs who never lost the belt. He beat 1 twice and he beat the other on like 3 weeks notice with a broken foot. I honestly think he can beat Aspinal! They walk around nearly the same weight. Could you imagine Pereira bulking clean and eating more to add muscle to that lean leant frame he would be a beast at heavyweight! His body and frame can easily add 20 lbs of muscle and stay lean when he’s spent his whole life trying to keep his weight down. He would gain weight easy since he probably dieting to some degree year round staying in fight shape
Pereira looks like a Bigfoot Silva ! I just realized it, maybe they’re part of the same Amazonian tribe 😂
There are only 2 things that separate Jon Jones from any other G.O.A.T contender.
1) Undefeated
2) Longevity . Every fight since March 19 of 2011 has been for a title . 15 in a row and as soon as he steps into the octagon with Stipe that will be 16 fights in a row where a title was on the line. For 13 years straight every fight has been for a title and each time he has walked away with that belt.
Edit: everyone in here commenting on Reyes needs to look at Reyes current streak. Almost everyone that faces Jon goes on a losing streak and is never the same fighter they were before hand.
Maybe you think Reyes won but the record book will forever show that he lost. 60 years from now when you’re all dead and they look back at the only 2 division champion to fight for 16 years without losing and having 16 title fights there will be no discussion about who was the G.O.A.T
3 steroids
4. Lost to Reyes
5. Matt "The goat slayer" Hamill
You can say that he had decisions go his way that should have went the other way but these other guys in the discussion(Pereira) have been flatlined. I don't think that Jon has ever been knocked on his ass.
A 3rd belt would do it. If this Pierra fella wins hw belt that's it.
Chael’s brain legitimately cannot fathom poatan. It’s too funny
The bad guy still undefeated even though he picked Khalil to walk through Alex in 2 rds what he really meant was Alex in 4 rounds by bloody mess .
Everytime before the fight Chael is like Alex can’t win this one right after Chael is like he is the goat 😅
Let Alex collect all the infinity stones at 205, defeat Ankalaev then keep it moving.
Uncle Chael, do you have a story about a cut man? They do amazing things and seem interesting people. Love your work, especially around fight week when you travel so much and grind so hard for us. Appreciate it champ
thats a great question
You picked Khalil right?
The man is absolute warrior. Its super fun to watch it all go down. I love this sport.
when the legendary god of combat chael sonnen says you are great, you are great
I was too young to experience it but I feel like this was similar to Anderson Silva reign in the UFC except Alex is facing much tougher opponents
Wow. Guy is crazy and now patient and precise
Chael, how bout that prediction of Rountree beating Alex? 🤣
Always enjoy watching cheers
Yep Cheers was a classic.
fantastic tv show. Norm always made me laugh.
Finally unc uploaded
Chael would love to see “Peeyairuh” v. “Raycheck”
😏
After this PPV is anyone believing that UFC is becoming like PRIDE & WWE with predetermined results specially after Almeida didn’t lose any points after 5 eye pokes . The ref was also separating them after a few second like is boxing
Maybe it's just me but I think the GOAT of MMA should have better than brown belt level grappling and know what a double-leg takedown is. This whole run has been so blatantly manufactured that it's hard to take any GOAT talk seriously. Still love Poatan, but he had an opponent who did not even try to test his weakest area. That's like if an NBA team refused to take 3s against another team and went only for dunks instead "for the fans" lmao
😂😂😂 there people calling Khabib GOAT
@@mariovitorlauande2706 At least Khabib knows what a rear naked choke is.
@@_DioBrando_ did you have been in Glover Teixeira gym ? You really think a Brazilian dont know about submission? Gregory Rodrigues is a BJJ world champion he was doing sparring with Poatan and said that many people dont know how good his grappling is. And he trained BJJ even doing kickboxing if you dont know
@@_DioBrando_ and Khabib is trash on the feet
He has been gifted sloppy brawlers to KO, Israel Adesanya beat his brains out even though he is starting to lose his edge
Tito tapped
Edit. Middletown Ohio High School 2-0 last week. JD Vance on Tuesday and Kayla Harrison last night.
Poatan is like Thanos from Avengers and he keeps collecting the fuck1ng infinity stones as Cormier told to Joe Rogan. 😂 CHAMA!!!!
That Jamal Hill comment was savage af hahaha, gotta love Pereira
The last quarter of the video is my favorite aspect of Poaton. He actually fights! In a day and age when top athletes retire for minimum of 18 months between fights, this REAL champion fights.
This fight went nothing like Chael predicted… he said Alex would win every round but Rountree would just need to find that single moment to knock him out, and he said he would. Instead, Rountree came out swinging and won every round until he gassed out and Alex went beast mode.
At this point, let him do whatever he wants. He's the king of the UFC. Watching him knock out a heavyweight would be more impressive than anything else at the moment. I already don't see anybody beating him in LHW.
5:29 is why you’re here.
Kickboxers saved the sport and made it exciting. Let’s not forget that Israel Adesanya was active for 3 years and faced the most dangerous opponents in the MW division. Glory fighters are just built differently
They're building up Conor vs Khabib at LHW with Ankalaev
Not at all, unless you wanna call any fight with striker vs wrestler a "Conor - Khabib kinda fight"
@@Oakenlix ask uncle Chael if he thinks Conor vs Khabib in 2025 would just be any fight
Alex is the excellence of basic Muay Thai. He is not fancy, he just does the basics perfectly!!
Finally Chael is talking facts about Ankeliav! Dude might be Dagestandeni, but he’s a striker!
Sean Strickland played it safe. He became friends with the guy who beat him. I’ve been fighting all my life in the streets,I can only become friends with the guy who beat me if I beat him back
I could really care less about Izzy, but his win over Pereira is truly aging better and better. Izzy gets smoked at 205 pounds against him but the win at 85 can’t be taken away from him especially when Alex hints at possibly going back down to 85.
44 seconds no views… Chael needs to call more fighters good looking
😂😂😂 that’s great . He does like to remind us when a fighter checks the “handsome” box
Alex isn't dynamic? What are you smoking Chael? The guy throws combinations, uses the muay thai clinche, he basically made calf kicks meta, he throws flying kicks, teeps, etc. The guy is extremely dynamic.
I 100% agree you can't say John is the greatest for multiple reasons but Alex is on a different level. The man is trying to fight 3-4 times a year and taking on the best people. I'm a GSP fan and think he's the best ever but Alex is pushing that
Alex Pereira vs John Jones has suddenly become more interesting than the jones vs Ngannou fight ever was.
If Poatan can win the HW belt he will become the Roy Jones Jr of the UFC because he’ll gain a cult of fans that will swear by him as the GOAT
Alex is the total package from an appeal standpoint. He is honorable, scary, fights a pleasing style, and will fight absolutely anybody at any weight class, no questions asked. He is my favorite fighter, and brings the credibility to the business guys like Jones, McGregor, O'Malley, Adesanya, Cejudi, whoever, lacks. And he doesn't come off like a gimmick like Jiri, even. He is like a Brazilian Don Frye, and we should enjoy the ride, because he is also not a young man in fighting years.
Pereira must go in boxe.
Double champ Glory kickboxing
Double champ UFC
3 title defenses in 7months.
Poatan is a performer. His shows are always incredible. I respect that so much.
Cmon Cheal, you said Roundtree was gonna destroy Alex. Let's hear you apologize, and say you were wrong.
After last night, I wouldn't bet against Alex at any weight. I guess Tom has the best chance and I wouldn't count out JJ, but I don't think I'd BET against him!
I think he's more compromised to get knocked out at 185, because of the weight cut. But staying at 205 or going to heavyweight , I agree is his best course.
@@kev30631 can't argue with that!
Damn uncle Sonnen, I would've thought someone like you would take full control of the first minute of their video and not have a full on ad before content
Alex should stay right where he is at let them come to him...!!!
Uncle chael you cannot dictate 'Poatan', you are not the one calling the shot, also does Ankalaev. Alex is the champion and superstar right now, he's calling the shot, he can do whatever he like.
chael just said the other day poatan is not as good as we think he is , i dunno dude his recovery and adapting to a fire fight is pretty impressive
Bold words by Walmart Jim Jones. You spent the entire last year trashing him and calling him overrated.
If Pereira beats Ankalaev, he will deserve to go up or down and fight whoever he wants
Stop Predicting fights u have caused my casual fans money.
Wasn’t long ago we’d talk this way about Izzy …. Life happens
Ankalaeve has an average of 1 takedown and a 31% takedown accuracy he is not a wrestler and the only submission he has is a LOSS. I do not get fans saying its the grappling/wrestling that gets him over especially, with those stats
It’s fascinated to hear how neither Chael nor mma fans in general get what they are seeing with Alex.
First, Alex is NOT a great striker. Not even close. If you were to put Pereira in a boxing ring with a world class cruiserweight - his chin jutting out unprotected and hands at chest level and zero defence - he would get smoked in seconds (lest we forget how he DID get starched by Izzy when attacking/leaving himself wide open).
Second, the only reason mma fans believe that Potan is some sort of striking god is that mma striking has traditionally been DIRE - hence he represents at least a step up from the very low level seen to date. But it’s still a low bar.
Indeed, it’s why elite level wrestlers were able to spin that old erroneous ‘wrestling is the base of mma’ trope for so long - as you had very high level wrestlers/ju jutsu competing v VERY low level strikers.
Yet once the level of striker improves - think Whittaker, Wonderboy, Potan, Max, Sean, Jan - then wrestlers will always struggle to take them down/ survive.
Indeed, be in no doubt if elite boxers like a Canelo, Dubois, Usyk, Tank Davis were to properly transition - as all individual combat athletes must do when going to mma - then the level of striking (stand up has long been every fan and Dana’s style of choice) would just go through the roof/wrestling would be further exposed as a second-rate fight discipline - and the old one on every fight starting on feet would be realised.
Hence sorry Chael my old mucker - - another wrestler who long dissed boxing having never fought an elite boxer/having never understood it. Yet your chosen discipline is a dying one in the octagon - strikers like Max, Sean, Tom, Potan, Izzy, Topuria, Jan and so many more showing even today’s moderately improved strikers now have the number on those ground specialists in the majority many divisions.
Lastly, nobody will be more happy on that than White himself - a guy who now openly hates on anybody going to the ground/threatens guys who wont stand/trade with expulsion from the UFC.
Yep, that’s all the good but NOT great Potan has been showing us about the evolution of an mma once considered a vehicle for the wonders of wrestling/ju jitsu but NOW more a place where everybody just wants the ref to….
‘Stand em up’
Being "dynamic" has nothing to do with 🐐 status if we're willing to place Khabib in that category when he was essentially a one-trick pony.
Fuck why I've waited so long for this, Chael? please, upload faster hahaha
I think the blueprint for beating this guy has to include elite wrestling and ground pounding with good cardio. Unless you get lucky and catch him standing up with a shot like Adesania has done.
Do I think Bones can finish Hill in the 1st round? Yeah, I do. Tomorrow, let alone in his prime.
When it comes to facing other strikers & brawlers.. sure… but Alex barely - rarely fights wrestlers or bjj opponents. Hard to judge him as an overall mma fighter just yet.
lol it has been 2 years and a ton of fights. does it take you this long to order at mcdonald's too?
Cuz ass scooters are boring
Aside from Ankalaev there aren't really any at LHW and he's not even much of a wrestler himself. Jones is the only real credentialed wrestler you'd have any kind of chance at seeing him face and those prospects are slim, Alex probably only has a year or so left in the sport at this point lol. He's almost 40. You can't hold opponents that don't exist against him.
@@cineris2389
You are 💯 correct… I wasn’t denying his positioning in the rankings.. there’s no taking away from his accomplishments.. but I’m critiquing his skills as a overall mixed martial artist for the exact reason you stated. That there aren’t many bjj, judo, or wrestling opponent threats currently in the UFC’s heavyweight divisions top 10. Thus far he has defeated everyone solely by having superior striking skills. Which judging based off his kickboxing credentials most already knew he would be better than most when it comes to striking.
@@cineris2389 besides Ankhalev.. as you stated..
He cleaned out 205 as far as I care. Unless DDP moves up, then Alex should move up to HW
Fun fact, Jan bkahcovitz clearly won that fight with Alex Pierra. That decision was clearly rigged, that fight changed the course of Alex’s career. He would not have gotten the title shot if they didn’t give him the decision. Somehow that’s been erased from history lol. Also: no one is beating Alex in a kickboxing fight. That’s like someone fighting DC and deciding to have a wrestling match with him. No one would ever do that. But with kickboxing, apparently everyone in mma thinks they can strike with a glory champ. I don’t get it.
Ankaleav will beat Rakic and then Alex will beat Ankaleav.....dude is way tougher than I gave him credit for....I would love to see him at HW too....
Alex Piera gonna smash Alex Raychick
Why do I really want to see Roundtree vs Strickland next.
It's most probably be Peaeira vs the winner of Unclealive vs Raychick
I predict for you uncle Chael... DDP at 205 will be the end of Alex Pereira! I'm just sharing for you that Alex has not faced a true rounded MMA fighter that could match him with the striking but also could dominate him on the ground. Not for nothing, DDP is a K1 kickboxing champion but also an elite grappler with an Iron chin. We have not seen anyone force AP to fight on the back foot!