Oh it's real, UFC 293 Izzy vs Strickland confirmed

[Schnitzl]

Presser will be the main event and presser of the year contender, fight is secondary

[adamsz]

Sean's gonna get 49-46'd, but would be amazing if he could somehow pull off the offset

[ninetynine8]

imagine if strickland wins? gotta be the biggest upset ever

[Tuga88]

Boring. Strickland has won 2 of his last 4, got KO'd just a year ago and now he's getting a title shot lol.

Dude is not on Izzy's level, just another easy fight for him.

[AgentSkyhawk]

I'm going with Izzy. We can argue it'd be different if Sean was checking kicks, utilizing a lot of head movement, etc but his philly shell approach and moving forward towards Izzy who has no problem picking people apart for 30 minutes is going to be a problem.

[ninetynine8]

Sean has a path to victory. Make Izzy angry at the press conference, start calling him chinese boy in the ring. Izzy gets too aggressive and gets taken down + subd

[akmerle]

Sean's gonna get 49-46'd, but would be amazing if he could somehow pull off the offset

I think 49-46 is seriously optimistic. MMA is beyond unpredictable, but Izzy vs. a very one dimensional basic puncher who doesn’t kick, no real foot / head movement, and no threat of a takedown is about as easy and low risk a fight there is for Izzy.

[Gainzzz]

Sean doesn't wrestle but I don't think that means he can't wrestle. He better at least try. It's his only path to victory. Izzy has good TDD but his grappling is awful. If Sean tries to ego it like he did vs Alex then he's going to get knocked out and he will deserve it.

[TrueTruth]

Looking forward to the press conference. Strickland needs to rustle the fuk out of the Chinese New Zealander and provoke him to go for a KO, or else this lanky bitch is going to milk his unanimous decision borefest again.

[Barteh]

Boring. Strickland has won 2 of his last 4, got KO'd just a year ago and now he's getting a title shot lol.

Dude is not on Izzy's level, just another easy fight for him.

Less boring than these endless rematches we've been getting. At least it's a fresh matchup. Who knows if we'll see a surprise.

[Skylinerd1]

Just LMFAO if Sean gets the belt.

[Schnitzl]

Just LMFAO if Sean gets the belt.

I think he's just happy to get paid 7 figures for this but looks like he's already in camp with Poatan

[Cartiac]

Yup, very slim pickings at MW these days but at least they found a body to put in the cage with Izzy.

There is no world where Strickland's two brain cells can rustle Izzy considering he is too dumb to realize he is trolling himself by repeating Izzy's trolling thinking he is mocking.
Although sticking to just being an Izzy parrot is his best move to try and get out of this fight with that decision loss. This is the easiest fight of Izzy's life.
The last thing that Nazi wants to do is give Izzy a reason to make him the star of his next post fight YouTube clip.

[sooby]

it's a bad matchup for sean.

to beat izzy you need to pressure him against the cage and/or get takedowns

sean does neither.

[iloveus]

Easy win for Izzy

This is a fight I can actually bet on

[adamsz]

I think 49-46 is seriously optimistic. MMA is beyond unpredictable, but Izzy vs. a very one dimensional basic puncher who doesn’t kick, no real foot / head movement, and no threat of a takedown is about as easy and low risk a fight there is for Izzy.

That's why I'm giving Sean 1 round lol. Even someone a huge step up in competition might take a round off if they know they can cruise to victory.

[ProudKraut]

Yup, very slim pickings at MW these days but at least they found a body to put in the cage with Izzy.

There is no world where Strickland's two brain cells can rustle Izzy considering he is too dumb to realize he is trolling himself by repeating Izzy's trolling thinking he is mocking.
Although sticking to just being an Izzy parrot is his best move to try and get out of this fight with that decision loss. This is the easiest fight of Izzy's life.
The last thing that Nazi wants to do is give Izzy a reason to make him the star of his next post fight YouTube clip.

Cliffs on how he's a Nazi? lmao

[TBO1313]

Cliffs on how he's a Nazi? lmao

He's admitted to being a neo nazi when he was younger.

All that aside he has no chance in this fight unless he becomes a world class grappler

[sword_]

I don't see it as a winnable fight for him unless Pereira gives him some super secret advice to beat Izzy but props to him being a game fighter.

[akmerle]

He's admitted to being a neo nazi when he was younger.

All that aside he has no chance in this fight unless he becomes a world class grappler

He's been very open about how his knee / leg cant bend enough to take any type of grappling after his motorcycle accident, and how he had to adopt a new fighting style based off not being able to really bend that leg much.

[CanardMedic]

Lame, there truly is no one for Izzy to fight at 185.

[ChurchDave]

Strickland has a 15% chance of winning or less

[ninetynine8]

idk why but i have a feeling this fight will be competitive. izzy always surprises us with how bad or good he is

[Cartiac]

Cliffs on how he's a Nazi? lmao

Do they block all content containing that word over there in Germany? Sean has talked about being a former Neo-Nazi to market himself, the same way he talks about fantasizing about killing people on the street and exaggerating his criminal history because he thinks that makes him sound cool.

This is a bad fight from the promo and fighting perspective. If you think Izzy's comments to DDP made things very uncomfortable, this matchup has the potential to go to even much darker places that UFC wants nothing to do with. I could imagine the delay in making this fight official had to do with defining boundaries for allowable topics to protect UFC's image as well as Isreal's.

[sooby]

Do they block all content containing that word over there in Germany? Sean has talked about being a former Neo-Nazi to market himself, the same way he talks about fantasizing about killing people on the street and exaggerating his criminal history because he thinks that makes him sound cool.

This is a bad fight from the promo and fighting perspective. If you think Izzy's comments to DDP made things very uncomfortable, this matchup has the potential to go to even much darker places that UFC wants nothing to do with. I could imagine the delay in making this fight official had to do with defining boundaries for allowable topics to protect UFC's image as well as Isreal's.

100% Sean is going to go the chinese angle as well as Izzy fondling his dog's genitals live

[Skylinerd1]

Just about forgot about this. Hope #Lastdogbender gets done by Strickland would be GOAT.

[nikeoneplatinum]

Lame, there truly is no one for Izzy to fight at 185.

Chimaev after he beats Costa.

[dingleclefairy]

1.85 for Under 4.5 rounds

Thank me later.

[ninetynine8]

Izzy is saying he wants to KO strickland which means he probably won't. Anytime he hypes a performance it becomes one of the worst fights ever

[CellyTech]

I'd cum everywhere is Sean KO'd izzy, but its not gonna happen.