The Hype Around the Stylebender vs. Pereira Rematch

Well I think the casuals got woken up to in the Dustin Poirier Conor McGregor fight. Yeah. In that fight where you just see how he's just so compromised. And even fights where you don't think that a guy's compromised like Adesanya Pajera. Israel said after the fight, he's like you fucked my leg up. My leg was useless. Yeah you watch it in the replay. I didn't notice it even because I was upstairs watching it. And then when they started showing the highlights later on I was like well he like went down from the one check too. So he checked it really weird and he got cat kicked. Well he kind of like tripped over his foot and then went down so we said oh he just stumbled. But it was really because his leg wasn't working well in it. Already. Yeah. It was the first round. I went and I watched that fight several times. And apparently so has Alex Pareda. Yeah. And he made Glover watch it. Oh really? Every time he comes over he apparently puts it on. I watched it again and it's that first round. That first round he fucking really chops at it. He's got a very strange style. It's very uniquely Pareda. His yeah. The stand up style. It's very different. Like his hands he stands like this. He's just freakishly long and big for that weight class. And his power is preposterous. You ever see some of those guys like when you look at certain skinny guys and I'm not calling him he's not like a. He's lean. But he's lean. Tall and lean. Those guys are the guys I worry about. It's those guys that hit freakishly hard. The big muscle guys you know that guy's going to hit you hard. But it's these sneaky tall lean guys. Those Tommy Hearns looking good. Yeah. And they just when they turn into those hooks. His left hook. So much torque and leverage. His fucking left hook is a thing of beauty man. It really is. I mean his everything is fucking sick. Scary dude. He's such a scary guy. And the high level kickboxing experience that he has like coming over from glory. I'm you know I'm very interested to see what Israel does different in the second fight but I'm really interested in seeing him against someone who can wrestle. That's what I'm really interested in. I was just going to say it's kind of working out perfectly for Alex where you get another you get another shot. Yeah. You know you get to go and face Israel again. That's the best matchup for you. You got a guy that is probably going to stand with you for as long as the fight lasts. When he's really going to get challenged is when he has somebody that's going to say that. Marvin Vittori. Yeah. I'm going to grapple your ass. I'm going to pressure you up against the fence. And for guys like Vittori it's got to be like all right. They want him to stay the champ. Because Izzy already had their number and he's been there. But as long as Paredes in there another kickboxer but with a different style maybe not as much experience in the grappling department. They're chomping at the bit to get in there. Not chomping at the bit they are. He's fucking scary. Robert Whitaker. You know Whitaker is very well rounded. He's an interesting matchup for him. There's very good matchups in that 185 pound division. But in my opinion what's interesting is he's a specialist. He's like a pure specialist. Yeah. I mean he can grapple a little bit but that's not what he wants to do. He wants to knock your fucking head into the bleachers. Yeah. And you know it going in. No that's what he wants to do to you. Izzy was winning that fight and he still got him out of there. Yep. I couldn't believe it. I remember even saying that people when we were watching it up in the ESPN desk were like man could you imagine if he pulls it off here in the end and he fucking did it. Yeah he did it. Izzy was probably ahead three. How many rounds do you think he was ahead going into that fifth round? That was the fifth and I think even that round was that who I don't remember now. Well Izzy definitely won the first and almost knocked him out. I think he had probably two or three rounds. Yeah it's hard to say. I'd have to go back and try to score it. Which I'm terrible at man. People are always like what did you think? I'm like I'm calling the fight. Yeah you can't call and score at the same time. It's not the same. They don't get it. When you're scoring a fight you should shut your mouth. Oh there you go. Okay here we go. So Izzy had three rounds on Eric Colins' card on Sal DiAmada's card. He had three rounds and he also had three rounds on Mike Bells. All the same too. All he had to do was move around. Yup. And not get caught. Not get caught and he wins that fight. Wow. I'm very interested in the rematch. Because you got to think Izzy almost had him out in the first round man. He almost had him out. If he can avoid getting that leg compromised like he did in the first round of that fight and so he's got his movement and he also had some great moments grappling which surprised a lot of people when he had Paredes back. If there's a time that you're going to pull out some grappling it's in that match up. It's what that dude. And he's been at it longer than Paredes. So it's like that's the time to show and he did. Both guys did. Both guys I think scored takedowns at one point or another in that fight. I remember being like oh now the wrestlers in here. You get two guys that know they can knock the crap out of each other and suddenly everybody knows how to do a little bit of wrestling. Well just you know mixing it up. Just keeping someone guessing overload their brain. Yeah 25 minutes of avoiding that left hook. Scary proposition. It's everything man. Everything he hits you with is hard. That's what I'm talking about those lean guys like that. You know those shins hurt. You know if he lands an elbow on you. Same as Izzy. They're similar build but Alex has more muscle on him. He's quite a bit bigger. I mean I think Paredes when he actually weighed into the fight was above 220. When he was inside the octagon for the fight was above 220 whereas you got to remember when Izzy fought Jan Behoevich for the light heavyweight title he was only 194. Izzy is one of those guys that. He's not cutting that much weight. He's not cutting any weight and even when he wanted to go up to light heavyweight he's like I'm not cutting any weight. I'm going to fight as I fight.