UFC 305: Dricus Du Plessis vs Israel Adesanya

[niceyboo3]

I'm honestly sick of watching him lose. I don't want to be fair weather, but man....

[TMLT87]

He's had 80 pro kickboxing fights, 32 amateur kickboxing fights, 28 pro MMA fights, and 6 pro boxing matches. That's a hell of a lot of miles on his 35 year old body.

Yeah out of curiosity I was looking at how many strikes hes absorbed each fight to see if theres a pattern of decline. In his 9 UFC fights leading up to the Jan loss he absorbed 317 strikes, in the 8 fights from Jan onwards hes absorbed 691.

Clearly hes slowing. And he was a hit and not get hit type fighter. Whereas Poatan is more reliant on just being a big scary dude with massive power which is a style that tends to be less effected by age.

[famicommander]

Yeah out of curiosity I was looking at how many strikes hes absorbed each fight to see if theres a pattern of decline. In his 9 UFC fights leading up to the Jan loss he absorbed 317 strikes, in the 8 fights from Jan onwards hes absorbed 691.

Clearly hes slowing. And he was a hit and not get hit type fighter. Whereas Poatan is more reliant on just being a big scary dude with massive power which is a style that tends to be less effected by age.

Pereira has also had far fewer fights:
40 pro kickboxing
13 pro MMA
1 pro boxing
25 amateur kickboxing
~5 amateur boxing (can't find a solid number but he switched to kickboxing relatively quickly)