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Chael Sonnen talks about UFC 267 Championship Fight between Petr Yan vs Cory Sandhagen on this episode of Beyond the Fight.
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Peter Yan is going to go 10x harder the next time he fights Aljo. I’m scared for funk masters safety
Don't worry Sterling will retire before he gets back into the ring with Yan
Really don't think that fight will happen.
absolutely, i dont like Aljo at all but wud hate him less when he shows positive signs of accepting the fight .
Tbf to Sterling the fight was pretty much going just how the sandhagen vs yan fight was going. Sterling took the first, the 2nd was very close but the majority thought yan edged it and then yan dominated 3 and was dominating 4 until the knee so i feel like people have forgot that aljo is really good but yan is just incredible. I dont think he'll go 10× harder tho cause he doesnt fight with emotion he fights and sticks to the game plan which is to make reads early and give away the first round to then turn it up throughout the fight and either win a decision 3-2/4-1 or get a late ko, the only way i see someone beating him is if they either get him down which i doubt or they get the 2 first rounds on the cards, survive 3 and 4 and then give it all in the 5th to maybe get a decision. Other than that i think he's here to stay
@@Adam-nx3rv Yan was giving aljo a worse beating than he did Corey. This weekend was so impressive because most people believe Corey was the toughest matchup. Yan is an absolutely awful matchup for aljo.
Yan outskilled Cory. That's it.
Pretty much.
Its incredible that he did considering how Cory literally gave eveyrthing. I dont think Cory will ever beat yan.... and thats fucked up because the match up is SO MUCH favorable for Cory
mmmm, i don't know, i think Yan out-breathed him. Peter condition and stamina were better, that affects skill after second round one month for Cory to prepare wasn't enough, if he had three that would be even more impressive fight
outbrained him and outpowered him for me, corey touched a lot but wasn't able to do damage, and he was caught by jan hardest shots
Just barely. this is an accurate
I’m convinced Chanel doesn’t like Yan. Saying that Aljo was doing good against Yan is just non sense in my opinion. Yan reads his opponents in the 1st round in every fight he’s in. Chanel never seems to mention that though. The fact being, Petr Yan goes out there and never really wins the 1st round decisively.
Aljo started very well in the first round, but petr usually takes the first round off to learn his opponent and then dominates from there, which is what he did
@@RG-gv8ss everything aljo was doing looked unnatural , it was forced
Aljo did well the first 2 rounds. Actually out struck Yawn for 2 rounds. they were almost tied in strikes by the 3rd. Aljo started getting sloppy. but the first 2 rds wasnt close
I love how first I watch the fight and then 2 days later Chael tells me what REALLY happened in that fight. Amazing man.
russians are scary technical fighters
@@SAM-ru4vx Russians are scary teachers too I had one lmao
@@squillamtentacles3377 was gym class at school "wrestle a bear" day?
Makes me question why i watched the whole video :/
By God,Unc!Boring Klitchko bros,were rulling HW division,for 12/13 years,explicitly with reach & hight advantage.And Uncle wanted get back to Hittman.No fake boxing talk,please🙏
Do people not like Petr Yan? Everyone seems biased against him he pieced Cory up comfortably, my theory is people aren't used to good boxing guards in MMA and think hitting someones hand is a landed shot.
@@youboob4394 seems like no one wants to give Yan his credit, everytime he fights seems like people talk more about his opponent than him, his fights and style are beautiful he's a fighting genius.
SERIOUSLY BRO, THEY SCORED WVERY PERFECTLY BLOCKED PUNCH AS SIGNIFICANT STRIKES WTF IS THAT
@@not677 he really is man the way he builds and figures stuff out in the ring is absolutely brilliant
Most people respect Yan and know what a powerhouse he is.
@@YogiBear13 not to many people seem to be acknowledging that Sandhagen got completely outclassed, we already know Cory's good what Yan did was unbelievable.
Here’s what happened: Sandhagen looked phenomenal, but due to the Chael curse, he started fading in the later rounds. Therefore, Yan was empowered and won. Sorry Cory 😢
He didn't fade at all his conditioning looked fine, Yan just figure him out and started piecing him up by the second round.
Yan makes everyone “fade”.
Chael has to stop making predictions.
@@ShonTV15 Chael*
Yan just never looks like he is in danger in his fights. Corys movement and footwork was great all night but Yan just kept coming forward or he’d have up his boxing guard tight as hell. I feel to beat Yan you’d have to take him down and control him. But no one in the division can do that!
Chael sadly didn’t take advantage of his reach advantage in the jones fight.
He didn't need to, he used his toe breaking skills
nailed
Aljo can beat Yan because he did well in the first round? Everyone does well in the first round against Yan because he always fights defensively in the first round.
Yes perfectly shown in his latest fight as well.
Finally some people with common sense
Yan didn’t outskill Aljo, he was just stronger it seemed and had a better game plan. Aljo thought he could push the pace on Yan, out wrestle and out strike in, instead if backfired and he gassed.
@@docrakidocraki8067 so in other words he outskilled aljo
@@docrakidocraki8067 yan out classed him. He took him down even in the first round when aljo was fresh. Yan is hands down the best 135 pounder in the world right now, he is patient and picks his opponents apart. Most opponents win the first round against yan. But he pours on the pressure and keeps them in the back foot which is extremely tiring, no matter your cardio.
The fact that Cory looked not great but phenomenal on that fight made Yan looked even better, watching his beautiful adjustments made me cry. The fact that Yan in fact beat a top dog as legit as Cory is is what impressed me the most.
Made you cry? OK great.
Bruce buffer did a damn good job this weekend.
100%
Bruce is overrated he can’t pronounce any foreign names he just screams at you and his voice is shot by the main event.
..... It was a different guy, Bruce didn't fly out to Middle East?
@@NeoValeTudo “no one liked that comment”
@@connermcminn9704 he brings a good energy but he’s really not great people like him because of nostalgia. Better than joe Martinez and the shitty bellator guy but boxing announcers like his brother are leagues above
Even tho I watched the fight, I didn’t understand what I witnessed. Thanks to Uncle Chael know I know who won, even if 90% of the video wasn’t even about the fight
I'm not sure if Chael was even watched the fight. Unless I missed Bruce Buffer announcing the winner xD Still, I trust his eyes more than mine, so I'm probably wrong and Bruce was there.
You don’t know how to smoke Conor ..
@@Maazitung forreal lol. Pretty sure Bruce was back home dealing with covid lol
Chael always had a reach advantage, he can’t let you get close
Amazing
Whaaaaaaatttt??? What fight did chael saw? Im a cory fan but yan is on another level. Gives the first round to read you and then procedes to pick you apart. Remind me of.mayweathers mid fight adjust... hell of a fight iq
It's like he plays with his food in first round everytime
Murica vs Russia thing. Delusional muricans praising Cory for getting beaten up.
I most have watched a different fight than everyone b/c I agree with uncle cheal, I had it 1,2,5 cory
I seen 4-1 petr hurt him every round after he got his reads and his timing down. He looked amazing his whole game is top tier. His striking, his defense, his transitions on the ground. The fight exceeded its potential. But Cory got banged up.
Yup. I had it 4-1.
He even hurt him more in the first round. The round Corey won. Yes, even in the round Corey won, Yan still did more damage. Great fight. But all of Yan's fights are great fights. Fun fighter.
@Ware9925 yan could box canelo and it would be a badass fight
I had Cory winning 1 and 2
@@trharrington22 I have a hard time seeing it be scored any other way. I was rooting for Sandhagen but it's really hard to get against Yan. Even moreso after this
Cory looked great. But Yan proved there are levels to not only striking but pace. The output and pressure that Yan was putting on Cory would have broken most fighters (see Aljo/Aldo) but Cory showed tremendous fight IQ and heart. At the end of the day Yan’s strength and power above all else was the difference in the fight. Yan was able to do more damage to Cory than Cory to Yan when each landed. No one is on Yan’s level in the division and as much as people will hate hearing this, I would really like to see Triple Make a comeback against Yan. Triple C has great cardio, very good boxing, and, the obvious, world class wrestling. Stylistically i think it’s a great matchup and it would be a war. What are your thoughts?
If Yan beats Dillashaw I want to see Triple C come back
@@Scrungusss that’s legit 💪🏻
Triple C retired because he was scared of Yan. That is the truth. Yan would destroy triple C.
@@johnhopkins7817 that’s unlikely. We didn’t know Yan was Yan until he beat Aldo which was for the vacant title. Until then, the best win he had was when he beat a 40 year old Uria Faber. Yan is a straight savage but hindsight is 20/20. 💪🏻
Sean LeFloch who is we? Yan was a top contender before the Aldo fight bud. He will destroy triple c. Guy is very short he would get beat on feet n not be able to take him down.
This a stupid take on what happened. Yan uses the first round to get a feel and reads on his opponents like many world class boxers do.
this is true but you still can’t deny what corey was doing to yan in the first 7ish minutes of the fight. many fighters use the first round to feel their opponents out, but that doesn’t mean they get worked in the first round of the fight or even lose the first round. that’s the difference here. corey was putting it on him, even more props to yan for adapting as the fight went on.
@@walkingolga6235 while Corey won the first round, Yan was not "worked," at any point in the fight. While I gave the first round to Corey, even in the first round, Yan did more damage. After the first round i knew without doubt that Yan was going to win. I bet on the fight. I knew this was the outcome. Great fight, but all of Yan's fights are great fights. All of them. Yan is awesome.
I'm a big Cory fan, but yeah, that's what happened. Especially once Yan realized that Cory wasn't trying to hurt him with the jab at all, only using it to score and set up.
Peter The Algorithm Yan
Honestly I had it 3-2 with Cory winning rounds 1 and 2 seems like to me Yan wasn’t able to fully read and make adjustments during the fight until the 3rd round.
Cory looked great Cant take nothing from him I still saw yan win 4 rounds tho
I could give 1 and 2 to Sandhagen. He looked good in 3 but got dropped I believe and yan was starting to land harder. That was a phenomenal performance from both guys. It's one of those fights where you hate to see one of them have to lose, because they both wanted it.
3 to 2 Yan, the longer the fight went the better Yan got
wiwilson yup. Sandhagen wasn't able to do enough damage to stop the tide turning against him. Petr is way too tough and talented to just continue to get outplayed without turning it on more as the fight goes on.
wiwilson yup. Sandhagen wasn't able to do enough damage to stop the tide turning against him. Petr is way too tough and talented to just continue to get outplayed without turning it on more as the fight goes on.
I dislike my money so i PICK whoever uncle chael picks..and i have a ridge wallet that is CURRENTLY EMPTY...
ok, great
At least your pocket game is lit
I swear he’s going to be right until the last moment - but we have to accept the Glover wager which brought me back from the dead. Cory for the money was still a fine pool bet
It's clear now that Aljo did well early on cuz Yan does nothing at first. Yan will smoke him in the rematch
he’s the smarter one, he’s more disciplined, he’s tougher, at this point I don’t see any way for aljo to even hurt Petr
Aljo will tap him
After praising Cory, Cory finally agrees to be interviewed by Chael.
I dont think Chael watched this fight lol
Uncle Chail has a big man crush on little Cory just imagine Yan won the fight and Chael goes on and on about Cory
He must have been watching a different fight
Not sure if it was THAT competitive Chael. Thought it was pretty clear 49-46 Yan.
It can still be competitive if it's 49 46 lol the rounds were fairly close with the exception of the 3
Nah it was pretty close, especially if you're just leaving it up to the judges
Nah Yan clearly won.. and definitely took the close rounds as well.. Cory got the 1st round.
“He’ll kick you in the mouth with his foot”
Chael sounds like he's pretty biased against Yan for whatever reason. he was handling Aljo easily....yet Chael is the only person on earth who thinks he can beat Yan LOL.
You saw the same fight he did where did he see anything untrue
Naaah . Chael is just trying to boost up the underdogs/ loosing sides confidence . Yan figured out sandhagen Mid 2nd round . Then Yan just basically showed he is better in every exchange whether it be on the ground or standing up . Yan reminds me alot of usman . They both might not look to good in the first round but in the 2nd round they do a 180 and completely dominate . Pace is a weapon but the ability to reset and figure out ur opponent is the more significant trait. Both usman and Yan have this unique skill .
Except Yan doesn't fake nut shots to recover his cardio lol
@@canthandleanopinion2443 Yeah, Yan isn't a cheater
We all know that ... Yan start to place strong punches in 2nd round and that was diference. Pace do heas job in 3rd round.
@@canthandleanopinion2443 the kick landed on the cup thats not debatable Usman will ko colby brutallly
@@tistakere5055 lol so typical
Petr Yan never fights his best in the first round, so to say Aljo was beating him when they were both ‘at their best’ isn’t really true
Sandhagen 1st round and Petr 2-5th clearly. Only iffy round was 2.
Respect to both fighters. I know they’ll meet each other in the octagon again. Best fight of the night!
Corey needs to work on strength. He wasn't hurting Petr, to the point Petr wasn't respecting him in the championship rounds
@@thejoke2791 You are spot on.
@@thejoke2791 I mean strength isn't the issue. Sandhagen was outclassed. He landed 3 or 4 perfectly placed flying knees with plenty of power behind them. He doesn't have raw hand speed like Yan and you really can't teach it.
@@davidfhth6842 Obviously his knees aren't as powerful as Yans. You saw what happened to Sterling.😆
@@thejoke2791 it wasnt a power issue Cory was hitting Yans guard, couldn't land clean Yans defense is insane.
Immediate reaction "yan is for real and a problem for everyone"
What happened is that the true champion, Yan, is back to his rightful place as champion. The only time the Interim Championship actually means something and isn’t the irrelevant nonsense that it actually is.
I wonder what's going on in Sterlings mind after the fight? We will see what happens but he has his full that fight night.
Cory looked amazing, reminds me of a Kenny Florian, but just like every fight, Petr cruises in the early rounds and then turns it up later in the fight and by then he seems to have figured his opponents out (Aldo, Sterling, Faber, Sandhagen...and im sure there's more). Just my opinion. Great fight though. Would love to see a Sandhagen/Sterling rematch in the future.
Chael trying to hard to make us like and look at Aljo the clown as a champ 😂
Cory looked great. I really don’t think he lost the first round, he was tough as hell! I support him, obviously yan won but props to Cory
I knew Corey was good but a few things greatly improved since Dillashaw: his iq, no full rounds off, almost every time he took damage he came back hard to quiet the crowd, his wrestling, and I had no idea how tough he is. I thought he was done for at multiple moments in rds 3-5
He won the first round
He won the first even on official score
He won the second round too
I'ld give him the first 2, but the 2nd was close. He can clearly compete with the best in the world, and he's 27. He's nothing to hang his head about.
Chael: “Almost no one in the history of MMA has ever weaponized pace” Also Chael: “All of the greats found a way to weaponize pace”
All of the greats and almost no one are kinda synonymous no?
let's not let Yan's beautiful performance makes us forget about Cory out wrestling and out striking him
Yahn was always going to lose the first round my guy he let Cory throw it all out there and had him figured out like a super computer halfway through the second round you saw Cory sandhagen attempt like ten awful takedown attempts and have all accept for maybe one and thought he might have one the fight ? Come in my guy sometimes I think you just are aware of your clout and try to use to to sway paradigms revolving around fighters you prefer
Shows how focused Uncle Chael was on this fight that he didn’t even realise Bruce Buffer wasn’t even there. Forever undefeated & undisputed inside & outside the cage 💪
The real loss of the night..BRUCE😭
Stop it Uncle Chael. Cory was great but Yan clearly won. Aljo winning round 1 against Yan would've been more significant if Yan didn't start pretty much every fight like that.
Uncle Chael: I don't remember Cory Sandhagen ever getting bested in the stand up TJ Dillashaw: ok great
TJ got beaten up badly. He only won by taking the back with some cage control time without doing any damage.
did you guys watch the same fight because from round 2 and up cory got battered and if picked apart means hitting someones hands i guess im blind cory was walked down the entire fight and landed 38% of his strikes
I don't know how to feel. I saw the same fight as Chael and was trippin' on the commentary telling a different story than what I was seeing. lol
Ole Chael must’ve been watching another fight lol, Buffer wasn’t even the announcer since he got the rona. 😂
I cannot believe that yan didn't knock sandhagen out with the hook kick. Dude landed perfectly on the jaw with it.
Or the fuckin spin into overhand combo
@@donovanm5128 Yes, some of the combos Yan threw in that fight are some of the most beautiful punches ever thrown in the whole UFC history.
Sandhagen reminds me of Neil Magny, and that isn't a compliment. He's very tall and long for his division but can't seem to make the most of those attributes. He's clearly a top level guy but will probably always remain a top 5 gatekeeper. Hope i'm wrong, but that's my opinion
How is he a gatekeeper while being a title challenger?
@@FuckKZhead554 i meant that's how he'll end up, sorry didn't make that clear. Let's face it, Dillashaw is most likely getting the Sterling-Yan 2 winner; Cory has lost to all 3 of them. Short of clearing out the division i don't see any path to the title for him, that's why i think he'll be an elite gatekeeper.
Yan is a machine.
Very scary little man I feel bad for the big guy drunk in a bar that thinks he can beat up on that little dude
Seriously so proud of the performance that both of these guys put on. Cory should be proud for giving Petr his best competition challenge. It was a great chess match. Petr was so patient and reading and adjusting to getting picked apart. Most guys can't do that while getting picked apart.
Fully agree.
Aldo was a tougher match for Yan than Cory
@@not677 nah Yan didn't want to hurt Aldo because they were training partners. Yan went easy on him and still destroyed him
@@calvincalvin3132 wtf you talking about Of course he was going all out against aldo You cannot go easy on anyone or you get koed and aldo is a top 5 bw He gave yan the hardest fight
Bruce has some crazy superpowers announcing the winner from his home in the US
the real question is: when will Petr Yan fight Igor Prokhaev?
“Just get inside” is like “just get up”. Just? You can just do it?
Cory and Petr both have the potential to be all time greats at 135
Cory looked good, lots of touches, but I don't think he ever really hurt Yan.
I hope Cory works on his boxing. So his shots have some more pop to them. BC he might be more technical than Yan but Yan was the better puncher
Darn glad The BGI saw a couple more close rounds as I did - we were so so close this time on the Sandhagen / Glover dual wager!
His corner was driving me crazy during his fight. They didnt give him anything specific to work with, they just tried to pump him up. I remember at one point (between 3rd and 4th i believe) Sandhagen even asked "what do i do?" still nothin.
Dude yan destroyed him lol
When uncle Chael gonna address Igor Prokiov?
Yan has a boxing background, mainly orthodoxe defence, kind of similar to triple G. The main advantage among all ufc fighter's is his ability to create "angles" when controlling pace (deciding when 'both' should rest and when to put steady pace). It takes years to fine tune this technique...
One of the best mma technical fights of all time
Corey is amazing, I felt bad that he lost. Yan is a beast.
Chael was so high he thought Bruce Buffer was announcing lol
Frfr that's funny and true asf
Have you not watched Yan at all? He is so good he took a full round to figure Sandhagen out. He isn’t scared about fading at all. It isn’t a concern for him. I feel like he and Moreno are the same this way. Pete Yan is absolutely brilliant and so damn good. Yes I knew Yan won, despite how close it was. Chael you’re off here. Rewatch it. Cory Sandhagen is phenomenal. No one doubts that, especially after this fight. Peter Yan is just mentally and physically brilliant as an MMA fighter. He came in at the point Oliviera how has now reached, which is totally peak in their skills. Virtually never out of place. Also is NOT beating Peter Yan. It’s not happening.
Yan uses the first round almost exclusively to make reads and take note of patterns. Sandhagen looked really good the whole fight and especially round 1, but in regards to round 1 a part of that was yan letting cory look good
The 4th round was the most definitive round of the entire fight. Sorry Uncle Chael but you're wrong on this one.
yeah, he was getting his head bounced back all round.
The fact that Yan still had a spinning heel kick in his bag at the end of a 5 rounder ..and landed it! is just telling to the level he's on. Shows that Yan still had another gear. I love Cory but Yan is just on his own level. If they fought 10 times Yan wins all 10
I was saying the exact same thing bro! YAN IS A MONSTER !
Tyson Fury and Wilder have some nice reach. After boxing lets see them in MMA
Joshua, Lewis and Klitschko too. But nooo guess, guess it's rather their superior skin tone :-D
@@DickVanPaiton Huh? I named a white person and a black person. I would like to see either of them fight in MMA after is over
***Joe Martinez announces for UFC 267*** Chael: “I wasn’t positive who won this fight until Bruce Buffer announced it” Me: Bruce Buffer announced UFC 267
Cory's corner failed him. At the end of 4th round they tell him "just touch him up..." that's crazy, he's a fighter not a masseuse!
Unless your John Jones, who could touch you from the other side of the Octagon, literally poke you in the eye from the cage door.
Corey needed to mix in more power shots. Light👊, ligh👊t, light👊, hard👊
as soon as he throws hard Yan is gonna counter his ass
It wasn't bruce buffer that night Chael, what fight did you watch?
Crazy how he didn’t know who had won until Buffer said who the winner was. Could’ve sworn he had COVID and it was Joe Martinez.🤣
I'm sorry, I had that scored 49-46 the whole way. You have to look at both how judges will score fights, but also just the fight itself. Petr completely dominated Sandhagen in every facet. Sandhagen looked amazing, and I don't think he looked bad at all, but Yan was just better everywhere. Aljo has no damn chance. Sandhagen's best game is his standup, and Petr's standup was just on such a different level, it was insane. His boxing is top tier in the UFC.
Round 1 Yan definitely lost.
@@sibusisofaya7874 And?
@@tistakere5055 and what?
Yeah but Jan did so much better. Cory was outclassed the last 2 rounds, he didn't know what to do.
I’ve been waiting for this
When Marlon Moraes isn't even in the top five of the division you know that weight class is legit. Compare that to light heavyweight.
More than anything, the height advantage comes down to increased leverage, and leverage doesn’t get tired. Horsepower is great, it’s so great that it often becomes a crutch.
The whole card was Awesome; I even feel I owe UFC money.
Yan always fights like this, guys, he is a small terminator, starting slowly he became more and more assertive, they have just one way to stop him is to knock him out. But Cody has long reach, smart technic, but has not such punching power. Before fight Yan said that Cory has a lot of excessive moves when he fights and this takes off his own energy, he wastes
I wanna see the version that Chael saw, where Bruce did the announcement
I am not sure what substances are required but Chael ought to sell them with a paid promotion
I can't believe I have to explain why reach advantage matters but if all your opponent has to do to hit you his straighten his arm, while for you to hit your opponent you have to move your entire body forward 6 inches (or whatever it is), then you are at a disadvantage. Your opponent will be expending a lot less energy to hit you than you have to expend to hit him. 'The hand is quicker than the eye' - the less the opponent has to move to hit you, the harder it is to block or dodge it. If your opponent can push you with his arms and you can't hit him while he's doing it, that's a big disadvantage... I do agree that a lot of fighters with long reach do not use it and it always escape me why they don't.
Somebody needs to remind ol' Chael that Bruce Buffer didn't announce shit after this fight
Really glad you brought up the Mike Tyson stats talk because everyone talks about reach and size and weight. Yet Tyson destroyed everyone and never had the advantage in any those stats
Anxious for the Glover one, got thtat one right Uncle Chael!
I thought it was a close fight. My guess is that the knock down gave Yan a point
everytime i listen to uncle chael, i feel like i get nothing out of what he is saying, but i still tune in everytime lol
Those are some of the most well-timed effective spinning motions I've ever seen bc Corey is pretty damn slippery
Love the insight
Y’all have to understand Petr Yan always takes what his opponents gives him. He’s extremely patient and he takes the first round off (like Floyd) to download his opponent. Yan is the best boxer in the UFC. Hearing the commentators talk and Chael Sonnen saying he “got lost in the fight”, is wild to me. The man literally never stops training. He trains and spends time with his family, that’s it. Sandhagen was never going to win and TJ made Sandhagen look like a god in comparison to how Yan made him look. I’ve been saying it since the Faber fight, no one is going to beat Yan.
Cory is a stud 👊🏻💥👊🏻
The examples you gave of fighters with long reaches were all just lanky fighters, which seems to be what you're actually talking about. But there's a lot of top tier fighters who are average height but have above average reach. Guys like Dustin Poirier, Conor McGregor, Alex Volkanovski, Brandon Moreno, etc have large height/reach differentials and seem to be able to take great advantage of them. Not saying I disagree with your overall point but I think you framed it too narrowly
Very interesting input Uncle Chael but where does Igor Prochiev fit into this?
Just coming from a video about the legend of Kaoklai, the giant slayer. This video is relevant.
Yup this fight was awesome and Ii didn't know who won the fight or in the lead until the half way through the fifth, lucky guess Petrn Yan. Wild how it all turned out.
Reach matters most on the ground in guard or mount.
All 1st rounds Yan is reading opponent, keeping strengths for later. All Cory's "great movement" was about running away from scary opponent. Yan totally destroyed him. In 4th round Sandhagen went for takedown (more like hugged the mat) just to stay away from KO. After that he asked his corner "what should i do?" with a scared look. In 5th round he was just running away, trying make some points. 100% 4-1
Me : "Cory looked good" Uncle Chael: "Cory looked great!" Me : "Okay, great"
1) Chael argues reach advantage typically doesn’t matter 2) Cory Sandhagen knows how to turn his reach into an advantage 3) Yan weaponizes pace
1: chael you've used the stove story but a different version lol 2: bruce buffer wasn't in the building
I believe fighters with a 5 inch or greater reach advantage win like 70% of the time… so 1 or 2 inches is pretty negligible but once you start getting into big disparities it is statistically significant
You need to get an interview with Yan