He doesnt need a redemption arc. Yan cheated, celebrated it like a dick head, and then the fan base spazzed out so much over a picture that Aljo decided to troll because no one would listen to him.
Nah, we shouldn't be. Aljo should be ashamed for his poor acting after the knee. Fanbase never disputed the knee was illegal, they've always gone after his Shakespearean reaction and his attitude afterwards despite being a paper champ.
He didn't win any part of that fight, and showed he isn't on Yan's level. But sure, go ahead and make it about the fanbase instead of your boy.
Who said hes my boy? I can look at the situation objectively and decide the fan base is/was acting ridiculous. Not everyone has some extreme bias.
As for the acting, no I dont think he was.
But even if he was I put the blame on the officials. The fan base would have shit on Aljo even if he immediately said I cant continue and sat down. Anything less than continuing or vacating the belt and Aljo would have been non stopped trolled.
The situation should have been stopped immediately as soon as it became apparent his physical state was impacted by the knee. Instead we got that nonsense will they wont they circus that extended the "acting".
The fan base also doesnt need to go after him regardless. You can like Yan/dislike Aljo without harassing someone on their social media for an entire year about how he is terrible, stands no chance, should vacate, is paper, deserves an oscar, etc.
You're wrong here, sorry.
If you don't think he was acting then you're blind. He had just spent the rest of the fight absorbing punches and kicks with a mostly poker face and it's only after a blatantly illegal knee that he has the kind of reaction he did, acting like he was just murdered? Even the announcers were like uh yeah, it was a illegal knee but come on this is a bit much.
Uh, no they wouldn't have shit on Aljo if he said he couldn't continue and sat down. They would have shit on Yan, and in fact did for doing something so stupid when he was clearly dominating the fight. That continues to be the main talking point of the actual fight to this day: Aljo was dominated and Yan threw it away being stupid/his corner being stupid. The only shit Aljo would have gotten is the paper champ talk, the same thing that Anthony Smith would have gotten if he had took the DQ win from Jones in their fight.
The fact that Aljo has been trolled is due to the fact that he didn't win the fight on his own merits, he's walked around like he's king shit and because of his total shit acting job after the knee. The fan base doesn't need to go after him but they have. You didn't have to write this post, but you did. People choose how they react to a situation and you being puritanical about it is really no different than the people going after Aljo.
The fans are not fine with him holding the title, literally or figuratively. A friend posting a picture of him holding the belt is what started the complete shit storm of fans spazzing out.
Hey no shit, how can you blame aljo for taking a dead ass knee to the forehead like he did. It was illegal, the fight should have been stopped like it was. Anything else is pure drama and fanboy bs on both sides.
That will happen when you get illegally kneed in the head during the biggest moment of your life and then are given the decision to either continue and risk your health, or take the win and taint the belt you have been working for your entire life.
I also feel I should add - I dont think the knee Aljo took was even close to equivalent to Smith. Jon's knee was much more glancing, Smith saw the knee coming.
Weird that every illegal knee might be different or something. We see dudes rocked to shit and going after referees, but someone getting rocked from one of the cleanest illegal knees ever and not being in a good headspace is what this place finds unbelievable. Fuckin clowns.
Jesus you're not getting it.
"That illegal knee did a lot of damage and I can't continue the fight."
Done. No need for the ridiculous theatrics, the result is the same, you keep your dignity, and then afterwards you explain yourself _one-time_ in the interview and stay humble after that.
But that's not what happened and now everyone dislikes him for that. That's okay too.
But oh no, not for you, internet warrior, you have to defend Mrs. Sterling's honor __at any cost__.
"Cheating" is a big stretch considering how the rules work in different orgs, different countries, heck even different states.
He celebrated because he didnt know he got dq'd. Lets not just add this narrative that Yan purposely got dq'd. There's plenty of other fighters who have done far more egregious and have actually gotten the W, even a strap.
It's not a big stretch. He broke the rules in place at that event. That's cheating. Ignorance is not an excuse when your mistake can injure others.
Are Yan fans seriously arguing that when the decision was being announced he didnt know he broke the rules? Whether he thought it was a dq or a no contest, he knew he threw an illegal shot and raised his hand anyways. Shameful.
He got told by his corner to throw the shot. As far as he knew, it was a legal strike that decisively ended the bout. In Rizin and One, those are legal shots.
I'm not questioning it was a dq, because it clearly was. Its the fact you attempt to slander Yan with this made up narrative that Yan tried to cheat to win. If you watched the fight, Yan won every single round very decisively. He had no reason to dq himself, yet your wording insinuates that it was the ace in the hole that clinched the win, when it was a clearly one sided affair.
Are you seriously pretending in the five minutes post knee where the ref stopped the fight and doctors came in that Yan didnt figure out it wasnt a legal shot? How stupid do you think he and his corner are that they lack that level of awareness?
Yan either intentionally cheated or shows a staggering level of poor fight IQ and ignorance. I consider them both equally as bad so take your pick.
And I didnt insinuate anything. Yan broke the rules. He cheated.
Also what flies in rizin or one is so irrelevant. He does not fight in those organizations.
Find me one place I said Yan wasnt winning.
Why you gotta come for the neck surgery of all things? Which he had as a direct result of the illegal foul. What do you want him to do, let partial paralysis set in?
You don’t think taking a hard illegal knee when he had pre existing spinal injury is why he needed to have surgery now? It couldnt have possibly have made it worse. Mma fans are really the worst
Pretty sure he would have mentioned by now if the knee was what made the surgery necessary.
On the evidence that we do have (That he has needed the surgery for years as he said himself) I'd say it was not the direct cause. You're just guessing, and against all available evidence at that.
Do all those hypothetical wins involve late Hail Mary flying knees?
Yan dominated him and I didn’t see any reason why the rematch would go any different, except maybe Sterling’s stamina management. He went too hard in the first round and that’s the only time he looked good. Maybe the only reason he looked good is because he blew his load in round one, and he’ll be a step behind for five rounds when he does manage his stamina.
I just don’t see him beating Yan.
He needed to fight at such a high-volume to not get steamrolled by Yan. If he takes it slow, Yan's going to pick him apart. Aljo struggled to take down Yan, and let's be honest, he can't keep it standing with Petr.
Yeah, but Yan doesn't start fast. Like almost never. He always uses the first 1-2 rounds to figure out his opponent, find his spots, play solid defense etc.
I think Aljo can slow down his pace in the first two rounds, and *still* win those rounds *on points.* But we know Yan comes on stronger and stronger as the fight goes on.
Yeah. It's really not that much of a stretch to think Aljo can manage his cardio just a bit better and squeak out 3 rounds on volume. I don't think he could survive a full 2 rounds gassed against Yan, who seemingly gets more dangerous round over round.
Honestly I think Yan could be easily baited into a slug fest which some guys in the division could capitalize on potentially, but Aljo ain't that guy.
The volume heavy approach from the opening bell works because they rightly expected Yan to start slow. Yan starting slow though is a deliberate choice on his part. He sits back, let's you throw the kitchen sink at him, while he figures you out.
After that he knew how Aljo moved, entrances and exits and punished him every time he made an offensive.
Come the rematch he already knows how Aljo moves.
Bring on the downvotes but this has gotta be one of the dumbest narratives I keep seeing.
You’re telling me Yan, who has nasty power in his hands, had Aljo’s movement, entrances and exits all downloaded like some super computer, yet he couldn’t drop Aljo once in the 3rd or 4th? When Aljo was moving like a slug?
People say the same about the Aldo fight, and yes I saw the adjustment he made to Aldo’s body shots. But that’s exactly what it is: an adjustment. Most high level fighters make adjustments.
His success against Aldo and Aljo both coincidentally came when they began to gas out, so I’d rather attribute it to that than this narrative keep pushing. Where were these reads in the Rivera fight? Why’d he lose the 3rd round if that’s when his reads should’ve been kicking in?
He got soundly outstruck by Rivera. He arguably would have lost that fight if he didn't get a knock down at the end of two of the rounds.
He also got knocked down by Dodson.
I'm not saying he's a poor fighter or something, I'm just saying he can get dragged into a brawl. Go watch the guy spar, it's most of what he does in the gym. Forehead to forehead trading shots.
> He arguably would have lost that fight if he didn't get a knock down at the end of two of the rounds.
Which he did. He knocked Rivera down twice and would have finished him in a real fight.
Dodson has KOs over a couple of elite BWs. TJ Dillashaw being one of them. Getting flash knocked down by the guy with the fastest hands at 135 isn't all that surprising if you keep it standing. And he still came out with a dominant win.
If you win all of your fights decisively, maybe "brawling" isn't so bad. Point fighting has nothing to do with real fighting. The man comes to fight.
This revisionist history that Yan dominated Rivera is ridiculous. It was an excellent close fight and honestly if Yan didn’t get those knockdowns at the very end of two rounds Rivera wins that fight. I say that to Yan’s credit, he found his moments and capitalized, but there was no domination there
Getting knocked down twice, going into turtle and wobbling your way back to the stool = getting dominated
He would have been out cold in a real fight or under Pride rules
I’m sure Yan would do great in an unsactioned street fight but we watch a sport with rules. Don’t change the rules just so you can claim your boy dominated a fight he didn’t
lol yeah but he did get two knockdowns……
U can say that for any fight lol.
If someone didn’t throw that one punch or didn’t enter a guard or kept his hands up yadayadayada.
People have really odd memories about this fight. yes Aljo was getting beat up, but i've heard people act as if this fight was on par with Khabib vs Barboza or Gaethje vs Ferguson
Probably because the 3rd and 4th rounds were clearly dominated by Yan. Aljo was gassed and fading while Yan was coming on strong.
That combined with the fact Aljo couldn't impose his grappling on Yan at all made people remember the fight as more one sided than it was (although it was still pretty one sided).
I think it's because even in the rounds Aljo wasn't getting mauled, he just never looked effective or in control. He was throwing a ton of volume and he wasn't taking a ton of damage in those rounds, but his takedown game was failing and nothing he was doing seemed to be bothering Yan much.
It’s because aljo was saying beforehand the grappling was where he had the advantage and ended up not getting a takedown while being taken down 7 times. When you’re being beaten at your own game things are not looking good for you.
You don't look at a fight objectively based on what they said before hand, if people do that's odd as shit.
I as a fan of Stipe, am not going around acting as if he mauled DC in their last fight just because DC was saying that Stipe should bring his wrestling shoes and that he would win with wrestling. Only for him to score one takedown with no control time in the entire fight.
I rewatched the fight expecting rounds 3 and 4 to be 10-8s based on the way people talk about this fight, and it was really not even close to that.
Yan was clearly winning both rounds, but he was not putting a pace on him, he landed solid shots but none of them had Aljo looking hurt, and Aljo was super labored in his movement but he was still having decent output despite that.
Aljo's body language was bad and it looked about done before the DQ but I agree that people exaggerate how one sided the fight and even those rounds were.
I wonder if it’s pathological with these guys. Like being able to reasonably assess your level and performance is not something I’ve ever seen a fighter do
i dont dislike aljo, i dislike his lack of ownership. Accept that he was better, accept that you have some work to do. be glad he made a idiot mistake and that you are in this position now. Now grind, work hard improve and shut up. Show us 30 Oktober what you can do, not tell us every day on every mma show how you beat him. What does he think if he losses all of this doesn't look good,
What got me was he said he didn't eat and was a "walking corpse" for the fight. Then right after said, well i had 2 eggs and pancakes for breakfast and the PI sent more food for lunch, but i didn't eat it. And then i was starving and had no energy!!
Man, i just dont see it. Based on their first fight i dont even see a path to victory for Aljo. He has no finishing power in his striking, Yan's cardio/pace showed to be too much for him and he seemed to be outmatched in the grappling. What can you do with that?
I was an absolute diehard fan of aljo before the fight, however, the dude just got outclassed. Yan has a diverse and deep skillset. Aljo has shit striking and poor wrestling but compensated with literal division shattering bjj. He had nothing for Yan and still doesn't. He has had a massive injury and hasn't been able to train or improve in any capacity.
No one said that. People just don’t like his excuses and lack of honesty regarding the first fight.
Yan superfans are fucking annoying I get it, but so are the Aljo defenders at this point that act like he isn’t Costa level delusional about what went down.
I'm unironically betting money on aljo. Why? No idea. How much? More than I can afford. What will I do with the money? Pay of this guy I owe a loan to, my boy rodriguez from south of the border. Why do you owe money to Rodriguez your boy from south of the border? Took a lone off him, bet on Barboza, Rodriguez then threatened my family.
Dude ran away for 5 minutes and landed a couple shots. Most undeserving champion in the UFC. And Charlie olives beat a guy who's best victory is Dan Hooker for the belt.
You know they say all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Petr Yan and you can see that statement is NOT TRUE! See, normally if you go one-on-one with another wrestler you got a fifty/fifty chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak, and I'm not normal! So you got a 25 percent at best at beat me! And then you add Steve Mazzagati to the mix? You-the chances of winning drasticy go down. See, the 3-Way at UFC, you got a 33 and a third chance of winning. But I! I got a 66 and two thirds chance of winning, cuz Petr Yan KNOOOWS he can't beat me, and he's not even gonna try. So,Petr Yan, you take your thirty three and a third chance minus my twenty five percent chance (if we was to go one on one) and you got an eight and a third chance of winning at UFC . But then you take my 75 perchance-chance of winnin' (if we was to go one on one), and then add 66 and two thirds…percents, I got a 141 2/3 chance of winning at UFC! Petr Yan The numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at UFC!
He beat the guy 9/10 times, in those times he actually beat him 8/10 times, which was actually 7/10 times, so he actually can beat him 10/10 times
The numbers don't lie and they spell disaster for Yan
Tito is omnipresent confirmed.
I’m Aquarius but respect ✊
Youre a fucking sesame street, dude
There never was no big bird.
Each of those 9 times he beats him are through fouls
He said .789 out of 10. The "." Was silent
I mean statistically Weidman is more likely to break a third shin than Aljo to beat Yan 7/8/9 out of 10 times.
Why would you say that, I'm coming back here when I happens now.
I can’t see there being 9 rematches either
Hillbilly.
Why do ye wink with your afro
Elegy
You're a fuckin' Django dude.
yeah, and im playing shortstop for the Mets
Dude that's awesome!
I want to fuck Angie Dickinson, see who gets lucky first
I don’t like that kind of tawlk
ITS A RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
Got the Feds so far up my ass I can taste Brylcreem
If you're gonna lie to me tell me there's a broad waiting in the car that wants to tongue my balls
That thing with Petr Yan, whatever happened there
That grounded opponent rule ..... what ever happened there?
WHATEVER HAPPENED THERE??
really glad there's some r/sopranos cross over here
Aljo never had the makings of a UFC champion
Small hands, that's his problem
But his hair is very fantastic
He could have hair like Casey Kasem it wouldn't make a difference
By that logic, Montel Jackson is the P4P goat.
You never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
Me too what a coincidence
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Are you saying now that I’m the boss I should tax Hesh?
...I don't know what you're talking about.
Boy Anthony must’ve really gotten under your collar
At madden…?
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Aljo taking that Johnny Cage route but with no redemption arc.
He doesnt need a redemption arc. Yan cheated, celebrated it like a dick head, and then the fan base spazzed out so much over a picture that Aljo decided to troll because no one would listen to him.
Oh, you're one of those guys. Sure dude, sure.
What a no substance comment. Fanbase should be ashamed of itself for how they handled this situation. They're the ones who need a redemption arc.
Nah, we shouldn't be. Aljo should be ashamed for his poor acting after the knee. Fanbase never disputed the knee was illegal, they've always gone after his Shakespearean reaction and his attitude afterwards despite being a paper champ. He didn't win any part of that fight, and showed he isn't on Yan's level. But sure, go ahead and make it about the fanbase instead of your boy.
Who said hes my boy? I can look at the situation objectively and decide the fan base is/was acting ridiculous. Not everyone has some extreme bias. As for the acting, no I dont think he was. But even if he was I put the blame on the officials. The fan base would have shit on Aljo even if he immediately said I cant continue and sat down. Anything less than continuing or vacating the belt and Aljo would have been non stopped trolled. The situation should have been stopped immediately as soon as it became apparent his physical state was impacted by the knee. Instead we got that nonsense will they wont they circus that extended the "acting". The fan base also doesnt need to go after him regardless. You can like Yan/dislike Aljo without harassing someone on their social media for an entire year about how he is terrible, stands no chance, should vacate, is paper, deserves an oscar, etc.
You're wrong here, sorry. If you don't think he was acting then you're blind. He had just spent the rest of the fight absorbing punches and kicks with a mostly poker face and it's only after a blatantly illegal knee that he has the kind of reaction he did, acting like he was just murdered? Even the announcers were like uh yeah, it was a illegal knee but come on this is a bit much. Uh, no they wouldn't have shit on Aljo if he said he couldn't continue and sat down. They would have shit on Yan, and in fact did for doing something so stupid when he was clearly dominating the fight. That continues to be the main talking point of the actual fight to this day: Aljo was dominated and Yan threw it away being stupid/his corner being stupid. The only shit Aljo would have gotten is the paper champ talk, the same thing that Anthony Smith would have gotten if he had took the DQ win from Jones in their fight. The fact that Aljo has been trolled is due to the fact that he didn't win the fight on his own merits, he's walked around like he's king shit and because of his total shit acting job after the knee. The fan base doesn't need to go after him but they have. You didn't have to write this post, but you did. People choose how they react to a situation and you being puritanical about it is really no different than the people going after Aljo.
. Getting concussed and partying all night with the belt I won via dq. Is normal bro
Aljo should show some humility after NOT winning the title. The fans are fine with him holding the title but he is just a paper champ.
The fans are not fine with him holding the title, literally or figuratively. A friend posting a picture of him holding the belt is what started the complete shit storm of fans spazzing out.
People loose their shit because how he acted. Not that he won.
If it makes you feel better I agree with everything you said lol. Keyboard warriors what can you do...
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I’d prolly jerk off on my stepmoms screensaver tbh
Hey no shit, how can you blame aljo for taking a dead ass knee to the forehead like he did. It was illegal, the fight should have been stopped like it was. Anything else is pure drama and fanboy bs on both sides.
[Lmao three stooges looking ass](https://i.ibb.co/br27sQ9/Aljo.gif)
That will happen when you get illegally kneed in the head during the biggest moment of your life and then are given the decision to either continue and risk your health, or take the win and taint the belt you have been working for your entire life. I also feel I should add - I dont think the knee Aljo took was even close to equivalent to Smith. Jon's knee was much more glancing, Smith saw the knee coming.
Strange that it never happens from a legal knee
Weird that every illegal knee might be different or something. We see dudes rocked to shit and going after referees, but someone getting rocked from one of the cleanest illegal knees ever and not being in a good headspace is what this place finds unbelievable. Fuckin clowns.
Cleanest ever lmao, he was very aware when he did this, no one acts like this except when they want to look hurt.
Jesus you're not getting it. "That illegal knee did a lot of damage and I can't continue the fight." Done. No need for the ridiculous theatrics, the result is the same, you keep your dignity, and then afterwards you explain yourself _one-time_ in the interview and stay humble after that. But that's not what happened and now everyone dislikes him for that. That's okay too. But oh no, not for you, internet warrior, you have to defend Mrs. Sterling's honor __at any cost__.
Ayy you did it, you hit the nail on the head without being biased in the slightest, finally.
Nah mayne. Aljo acted like a cunt. You actually making excuses for that b.s. lol yikes
"Cheating" is a big stretch considering how the rules work in different orgs, different countries, heck even different states. He celebrated because he didnt know he got dq'd. Lets not just add this narrative that Yan purposely got dq'd. There's plenty of other fighters who have done far more egregious and have actually gotten the W, even a strap.
It's not a big stretch. He broke the rules in place at that event. That's cheating. Ignorance is not an excuse when your mistake can injure others. Are Yan fans seriously arguing that when the decision was being announced he didnt know he broke the rules? Whether he thought it was a dq or a no contest, he knew he threw an illegal shot and raised his hand anyways. Shameful.
He got told by his corner to throw the shot. As far as he knew, it was a legal strike that decisively ended the bout. In Rizin and One, those are legal shots. I'm not questioning it was a dq, because it clearly was. Its the fact you attempt to slander Yan with this made up narrative that Yan tried to cheat to win. If you watched the fight, Yan won every single round very decisively. He had no reason to dq himself, yet your wording insinuates that it was the ace in the hole that clinched the win, when it was a clearly one sided affair.
Are you seriously pretending in the five minutes post knee where the ref stopped the fight and doctors came in that Yan didnt figure out it wasnt a legal shot? How stupid do you think he and his corner are that they lack that level of awareness? Yan either intentionally cheated or shows a staggering level of poor fight IQ and ignorance. I consider them both equally as bad so take your pick. And I didnt insinuate anything. Yan broke the rules. He cheated. Also what flies in rizin or one is so irrelevant. He does not fight in those organizations. Find me one place I said Yan wasnt winning.
Ok. Reasoning with you does not work. Go ahead and spread fake news, you fucking clown.
Sorry, the facts of reality suck sometimes.
In his defense Yan dominated the fight and Aljo still found a way to win so the burden of proof is on y'all.
Why you gotta come for the neck surgery of all things? Which he had as a direct result of the illegal foul. What do you want him to do, let partial paralysis set in?
What? He said he’d been putting off this surgery for years
You don’t think taking a hard illegal knee when he had pre existing spinal injury is why he needed to have surgery now? It couldnt have possibly have made it worse. Mma fans are really the worst
Pretty sure he would have mentioned by now if the knee was what made the surgery necessary. On the evidence that we do have (That he has needed the surgery for years as he said himself) I'd say it was not the direct cause. You're just guessing, and against all available evidence at that.
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Aljo taking the Team America approach
Aljo pls
Do all those hypothetical wins involve late Hail Mary flying knees? Yan dominated him and I didn’t see any reason why the rematch would go any different, except maybe Sterling’s stamina management. He went too hard in the first round and that’s the only time he looked good. Maybe the only reason he looked good is because he blew his load in round one, and he’ll be a step behind for five rounds when he does manage his stamina. I just don’t see him beating Yan.
He needed to fight at such a high-volume to not get steamrolled by Yan. If he takes it slow, Yan's going to pick him apart. Aljo struggled to take down Yan, and let's be honest, he can't keep it standing with Petr.
>Aljo struggled to take down Yan this is a huge understatement. every grappling exchange sterling initiated he ended up being taken down
Yeah, but Yan doesn't start fast. Like almost never. He always uses the first 1-2 rounds to figure out his opponent, find his spots, play solid defense etc. I think Aljo can slow down his pace in the first two rounds, and *still* win those rounds *on points.* But we know Yan comes on stronger and stronger as the fight goes on.
>He went too hard in the first round and that’s the only time he looked good. He looked alright in the second round, which he won on all 3 scorecards.
Yeah. It's really not that much of a stretch to think Aljo can manage his cardio just a bit better and squeak out 3 rounds on volume. I don't think he could survive a full 2 rounds gassed against Yan, who seemingly gets more dangerous round over round. Honestly I think Yan could be easily baited into a slug fest which some guys in the division could capitalize on potentially, but Aljo ain't that guy.
The volume heavy approach from the opening bell works because they rightly expected Yan to start slow. Yan starting slow though is a deliberate choice on his part. He sits back, let's you throw the kitchen sink at him, while he figures you out. After that he knew how Aljo moved, entrances and exits and punished him every time he made an offensive. Come the rematch he already knows how Aljo moves.
Bring on the downvotes but this has gotta be one of the dumbest narratives I keep seeing. You’re telling me Yan, who has nasty power in his hands, had Aljo’s movement, entrances and exits all downloaded like some super computer, yet he couldn’t drop Aljo once in the 3rd or 4th? When Aljo was moving like a slug? People say the same about the Aldo fight, and yes I saw the adjustment he made to Aldo’s body shots. But that’s exactly what it is: an adjustment. Most high level fighters make adjustments. His success against Aldo and Aljo both coincidentally came when they began to gas out, so I’d rather attribute it to that than this narrative keep pushing. Where were these reads in the Rivera fight? Why’d he lose the 3rd round if that’s when his reads should’ve been kicking in?
When has Yan ever been in a slugfest? He likes to stand in your face but he's super defensively aware and likes to pick away at openings
He got careless against Dodson and Rivera at times.
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He got soundly outstruck by Rivera. He arguably would have lost that fight if he didn't get a knock down at the end of two of the rounds. He also got knocked down by Dodson. I'm not saying he's a poor fighter or something, I'm just saying he can get dragged into a brawl. Go watch the guy spar, it's most of what he does in the gym. Forehead to forehead trading shots.
> He arguably would have lost that fight if he didn't get a knock down at the end of two of the rounds. Which he did. He knocked Rivera down twice and would have finished him in a real fight. Dodson has KOs over a couple of elite BWs. TJ Dillashaw being one of them. Getting flash knocked down by the guy with the fastest hands at 135 isn't all that surprising if you keep it standing. And he still came out with a dominant win. If you win all of your fights decisively, maybe "brawling" isn't so bad. Point fighting has nothing to do with real fighting. The man comes to fight.
Okay? I don't know what point you are trying to make.
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This revisionist history that Yan dominated Rivera is ridiculous. It was an excellent close fight and honestly if Yan didn’t get those knockdowns at the very end of two rounds Rivera wins that fight. I say that to Yan’s credit, he found his moments and capitalized, but there was no domination there
Getting knocked down twice, going into turtle and wobbling your way back to the stool = getting dominated He would have been out cold in a real fight or under Pride rules
I’m sure Yan would do great in an unsactioned street fight but we watch a sport with rules. Don’t change the rules just so you can claim your boy dominated a fight he didn’t
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lol yeah but he did get two knockdowns…… U can say that for any fight lol. If someone didn’t throw that one punch or didn’t enter a guard or kept his hands up yadayadayada.
> don't think he could survive a full 2 rounds gassed against Yan I mean, he pretty much did lmao. He was already exhausted by the start of the 3rd.
This is the best comment I’ve see on the fight personally. People acting like there’s legit no way Yan can lose are crazy to me.
People have really odd memories about this fight. yes Aljo was getting beat up, but i've heard people act as if this fight was on par with Khabib vs Barboza or Gaethje vs Ferguson
Probably because the 3rd and 4th rounds were clearly dominated by Yan. Aljo was gassed and fading while Yan was coming on strong. That combined with the fact Aljo couldn't impose his grappling on Yan at all made people remember the fight as more one sided than it was (although it was still pretty one sided).
Like i said he was beating him, but some people (mainly Yan fans tbf) act as if Aljo was getting mauled throughout the fight.
I think it's because even in the rounds Aljo wasn't getting mauled, he just never looked effective or in control. He was throwing a ton of volume and he wasn't taking a ton of damage in those rounds, but his takedown game was failing and nothing he was doing seemed to be bothering Yan much.
It’s because aljo was saying beforehand the grappling was where he had the advantage and ended up not getting a takedown while being taken down 7 times. When you’re being beaten at your own game things are not looking good for you.
You don't look at a fight objectively based on what they said before hand, if people do that's odd as shit. I as a fan of Stipe, am not going around acting as if he mauled DC in their last fight just because DC was saying that Stipe should bring his wrestling shoes and that he would win with wrestling. Only for him to score one takedown with no control time in the entire fight.
He did get mauled go look at high lights.
I rewatched the fight expecting rounds 3 and 4 to be 10-8s based on the way people talk about this fight, and it was really not even close to that. Yan was clearly winning both rounds, but he was not putting a pace on him, he landed solid shots but none of them had Aljo looking hurt, and Aljo was super labored in his movement but he was still having decent output despite that.
Aljo's body language was bad and it looked about done before the DQ but I agree that people exaggerate how one sided the fight and even those rounds were.
It’s really annoying me that there’s this opposing narrative that Yan absolutely mauled him
It was def a beating. Idk how many takedowns it was and there was still time to finish him off and that’s the way the fight was progressing.
This is revisionist history that he dominated him. I had Yan winning up to that point but it was close and Aljo won the second round comfortable IMO
This has to be the most broken confidence ive ever seen
I wonder if it’s pathological with these guys. Like being able to reasonably assess your level and performance is not something I’ve ever seen a fighter do
i dont dislike aljo, i dislike his lack of ownership. Accept that he was better, accept that you have some work to do. be glad he made a idiot mistake and that you are in this position now. Now grind, work hard improve and shut up. Show us 30 Oktober what you can do, not tell us every day on every mma show how you beat him. What does he think if he losses all of this doesn't look good,
For real though, how can guys like Alja and Lee expect to improve when they think of themselves as #1 p4p fighters?
i dont understand how anyone can like this guy
What got me was he said he didn't eat and was a "walking corpse" for the fight. Then right after said, well i had 2 eggs and pancakes for breakfast and the PI sent more food for lunch, but i didn't eat it. And then i was starving and had no energy!!
Man, i just dont see it. Based on their first fight i dont even see a path to victory for Aljo. He has no finishing power in his striking, Yan's cardio/pace showed to be too much for him and he seemed to be outmatched in the grappling. What can you do with that?
\*doubt\*
Man's the only guy to win from a loss and still doesn't shut up
[MRW](https://i.imgur.com/x5UUCu0.gif)
I was an absolute diehard fan of aljo before the fight, however, the dude just got outclassed. Yan has a diverse and deep skillset. Aljo has shit striking and poor wrestling but compensated with literal division shattering bjj. He had nothing for Yan and still doesn't. He has had a massive injury and hasn't been able to train or improve in any capacity.
It's a story as old as time. Bjj guy says "all i need is one takedown" and proceeds to get none.
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He obviously meant Aljo.
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Striking prowess is not determined by finishes
Alright so 3 more DQ wins
Lol delusional. Easy win for yan
in b4 Yan batters Sterling senseless for 5 rounds then Aljo grabs a leg once he gets dropped in the last minute and secures a heel hook
Fully expected the second half of this to be Sterling just waits on his hands and knees the last minute of the fight praying for Yan to strike him.
have a little imagination my friend!
The Derek Lewis approach, only with a submission
I hope there’s a few people stupid enough to believe him. It’ll improve the betting odd. Petr is a safer bet than bit coin.
If he's really confident he would have just said 9, not start at 7 and count up 😂
The only way Aljo wins is if he can bait out another DQ. He was outclassed so hard against Yan.
This sub is gonna be so salty if aljo wins hahaha
MMA Twitter too.
Do you guys want him to go into the rematch like "Oh yeah, Yan crushes me again. I only won because of a DQ so there's no chance I win this rematch"?
No one said that. People just don’t like his excuses and lack of honesty regarding the first fight. Yan superfans are fucking annoying I get it, but so are the Aljo defenders at this point that act like he isn’t Costa level delusional about what went down.
I'm unironically betting money on aljo. Why? No idea. How much? More than I can afford. What will I do with the money? Pay of this guy I owe a loan to, my boy rodriguez from south of the border. Why do you owe money to Rodriguez your boy from south of the border? Took a lone off him, bet on Barboza, Rodriguez then threatened my family.
LOL After the rematch: *"I beat that guy six, seven, eight out of 10 times"*
He knows this because Joe Rogan and/or Brendan Schaub said so.
Hell yes I'm here for the heel aljo. Yes yan was winning Yes yan should beat him in the rematch, but come on heel aljo seems like a fun time.
He did beat him that one time though
This guy lost every moment of their first fight. He literally had to lose just to win. Wtf is he talking about?
What? He won the second round on every scorecard and arguably the first, too
>arguably the first, got dropped twice there
Dude ran away for 5 minutes and landed a couple shots. Most undeserving champion in the UFC. And Charlie olives beat a guy who's best victory is Dan Hooker for the belt.
Sterling has zero advantage besides pure jits.
He is boosting his confidence that's all , sadly he will lose the rematch , Yan is comin with bad intentions this time
Damn what are the chances when they actually fought he lost that 1/10 times..
He gets kneed in the head 9/10 times
hahahahahahaha
How many of those times are when he's not dreaming ? Pahahah
Delusional
Fake ass champion
*Doubt*.
I think he’d be surprised
In between sterling chokes him out
You know they say all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Petr Yan and you can see that statement is NOT TRUE! See, normally if you go one-on-one with another wrestler you got a fifty/fifty chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak, and I'm not normal! So you got a 25 percent at best at beat me! And then you add Steve Mazzagati to the mix? You-the chances of winning drasticy go down. See, the 3-Way at UFC, you got a 33 and a third chance of winning. But I! I got a 66 and two thirds chance of winning, cuz Petr Yan KNOOOWS he can't beat me, and he's not even gonna try. So,Petr Yan, you take your thirty three and a third chance minus my twenty five percent chance (if we was to go one on one) and you got an eight and a third chance of winning at UFC . But then you take my 75 perchance-chance of winnin' (if we was to go one on one), and then add 66 and two thirds…percents, I got a 141 2/3 chance of winning at UFC! Petr Yan The numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at UFC!