This Weekend In Europe ft. Emelianenko/Prof X

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Graham is kickboxer with wins over Stan Longinidis, Badr Hari, Alexey Ignashov, and Mark Hunt

 

Was actually a pretty good match, things I'd take from it...

Aleks looked it poor shape carrying alot more fat than in the past.

He would easily have won in a full MMA fight.

He actually did pretty well standing getting the best of the boxing exchanges although obviously taking too many low kicks.

 

Graham made easy work of him.

 

If Peter at his age finishes him in three in a MMA fight then that is defintely easy work - especially given he has been active in stand up recently so would not have prepped a lot.

Graham's had a lot harder fights than that.

 

Did you watch the fight?

-Aleks was getting the better of him standing more often than not,
- It was not an MMA fight; they were only allowed 30 seconds on the ground, if it was a full MMA fight Aleks would have won easily, he was stood up with wrist control from half guard, and while having leg control looking for a leglock, etc etc.

- It wasn't a traditional "finish" it was Aleks getting a knee injury (good kick earlier by Graham) and just sort of stopping fighting when he was on the ground.

 

Aleks does look fatter than he was. For a while he looked fat like this, but then his last couple of fights he looked back to normal, now this again.

 

You are joking aren't you? Aleks went down how many times from leg kicks in how many rounds?

Having seen Peter fight locally recently he is well past prime and as you say Aleks gave up after a leg kick from Graham and getting mounted. Graham lost the hands, those sub attempts by Aleks were a ****in joke (the heel hook attempt by Aleks was just crap) and Graham absolutely smashed Aleks legsand dropped him numerous times in multiple rounds. Notice how Aleks tries s/paw to protect and cannot fight in that stance.

Lets take a step back though - Aleks picked a K-1 specialist under modified MMA in Russia because it is obvious he cannot wear any kicks. Nice name and easy choice of opponent you would think for the mighty Aleks but the rules they picked in Russia sure didn't work and Aleks GAVE UP.

Peter travelled all the way to Russia, took on the hometown hero and smashed him. Who was on top in fulll mount punching the **** out of who? Who hobbled out of the ring?

C'mon Beebs - for a Kyokushin fighter that was an easy ****in payday. War Graham!

 

It was a great win for Graham thats for sure.

 

Great, easy win.:happy

 

No idea what your talking about there, the Kimura looked like it was very close to ending the fight to me and Aleks only let go when he realised he wouldnt be able to before the standup. Graham would most likely have been unable to escape the ground without the standups aswell.

 

:huh


Don't selectively quote me and the action.

It was not close as Aleks was too high and he did not have leverage - any experienced ground fighter would have owned him. Alex let go because those were the rules - I would love to know who set them. They picked a K-1 fighter and were looking for a quick sub victory knowing Alek's cannot take Peter's kicks and putting their hopes on avoiding them via limited MMA rules.

Coming from a standup background how many times does Aleks just after being leg kicked go down then sits on his arse? A Muay Thai fighter would laugh at how bad Alek's leg defence and conditioning is and Peter saw it from round 1 on.

No doubt Peter could have fought a smarter fight but in the end he had full mount, was raining punches down until the time elapsed, stood up and Alek's GAVE UP.

 

All the drops were after the knee was injured. It was one good kick to cause the injury, then a few to the already injured knee, not hard to drop the guy then.

There was no smashing, there was Aleks winning the fight in rules that prevented him from winning easily, then taking an injury causing kick, and not being able to fight succesfully from then on.