Comments by "Fu Uf" (@fuuf7092) on "Kamaru Usman Octagon Interview | UFC 286" video.
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Izzy is elite, but much of his success was due to his reach advantage vs his rivals. Got outstruck by Jan on the feet, Alex landed more than izzy in their fight, one time he abandoned his safety first reach merchant style vs gastelum and nearly got KOd by a B rated fighter. Izzy not built for war, more tag style
izzy, staying on the end of his reach, refusing to take any risk. Breaking the shorter man down from where there is no threat of retaliation, the shorter fighter has to lunge in to connect and so are at a great disadvantage. Many fighters have had the success they had largely due to this advantage they had vs their rivals. The smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to overcome this, and even then, e.g with Rob vs izzy, its still very hard
Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂️ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
In mma, izzy who has the most boring fights because he fights a scared running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, also Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Use your advantages by all means but doing the minimum to get wins means you will be forgotten.
Thats why warriors like ali and mike tyson will never be forgotten, whilst you got reach merchant runners like maywether and izzy who are self proclaimed goats, only their fanboys talk about them. Andrade is another, he takes this style to another level like izzy. Horrible fighter
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
The reach advantage is why so many of these fighters were as successful as they were. Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Recently we saw the same with Shakur and haney, both had huge reach advantages vs their opponents and both easily hit their opponents with no fear of reprisal due to the reach differences.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like izzy, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach
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