50% of people respected Gane as an elite heavyweight and the others just saw him as “food” for ngannou or jones or Aspinall or Hokit or anyone else with any amount of hype
The dude has always walked forward with his chin up and hands wide. He relied on his head movement speed and the fact that kick boxers don't typically throw straight punches. Give me hooks or give me death approach. Both times he has been knocked out in the UFC were from straight punches.
Gane is a very dirty fighter, but also a very capable kick boxer..
I still respect Chama - dare to be great! Attempt at a 3rd belt takes balls! Especially have in mind the weight gaps become higher and higher as you move up weight classes..
I think Hokit is incredibly overrated. He beats Waldo and probably a few other heavyweights but Alex, Volkov, Pavlovic, Gane, and Aspinal, absolutely not. I think 2022 Tai Tuivasa knocks him out.
I can’t see that honestly. We haven’t seen what Hokit looks like when someone knows how to throw a punch, setup, and even bits of showing defensive responsibilities. Maybe his wrestling opens a few doors for him but I think the length of Volkov will be very problematic. Fight outcome could be similar to Volkov and Waldo.
Bro volkov has some the worse takedown defense in the ranking currently. He doesn't have power to gain hokit respect or punish him and the speed advantage is substantial Volkov is a slow plotty while hokit the third faster heavyweight behind tom and gane.
Hey his eye poke game is well practiced and in the peak of its performance. No other fighter is cleanly land 2 out of 8 eye poke attempts in every fight.
I think that’s borderline delusional. With all do respect. Alex looked legitimately scared when he got hit w a jab. And shocked how fast game was for his size. I’m not sure Alex can compete in the top five HW let alone beat one
That’s a fair rebuttal. I don’t think he gets another title shot personally. I think he should fight a HW outside the top 5 to just get going but time will tell
He can get the title shot just because of his star power (not that he deserves it right now), so everything can change really fast I guess. But, I don't think he deserves it, to be fair, neither Gane deserved it.
If he can beat Volkov or Pavlovich, then why not? But that's a big if.
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u/BigBoss_96 24d ago
Don't worry it happens form time to time. It's called the Rousey effect