Whereas Magomed Ankalaev’s efficiency at UFC 313 was ok to seize the sunshine heavyweight title, it hardly set the world on hearth.
Ankalaev dethroned Alex Pereira within the night’s most important occasion, scoring a unanimous resolution victory over ‘Poatan’ to select up his first little bit of gold contained in the Octagon. Statistically, Ankalaev outworked Pereira each step of the best way. He outstruck the previous GLORY Kickboxing champion, notched over a spherical’s value of management time, and delivered a dozen takedown makes an attempt.
All in all, it was a fairly commonplace efficiency from Ankalaev that left few impressed, together with Jiri Prochazka who slammed the Dagestani for his lack of killer intuition throughout an look on The Ariel Helwani Present.
“Everyone knows that Ankalaev delivers a lot of these performances,” Prochazka stated. “He’s not the kind of man who goes for the knockout each time.”
In contrast to Magomed Ankalaev, Jiri Prochazka is a confirmed finisher
Via 15 appearances contained in the Octagon, Ankalaev has six wins by means of knockout — a 40% end price. By comparability, Prochazka has completed 4 of his 5 UFC victories inside the space. He additionally has a ridiculous 27 profession KOs, together with 10 underneath the RIZIN FF banner giving him an insane 96.77% end price.
It’s no shock that Prochazka is unimpressed.
Sadly, if ‘BJP’ is attempting to trash-talk his method right into a title alternative, he’ll doubtless have to sit down again and wait as Ankalaev, Pereira, and UFC CEO Dana White have all indicated that a right away rematch is inevitable.
