“People pictured him like the Mayweather of MMA, and he’s not,” Marvin Vettori sights a big loophole in Israel Adesanya’s fighting style
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Israel Adesanya vs Marvin Vettori
The UFC Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya is going to face the number 3rd ranked Middleweight contender, Marvin Vettori in a rematch at UFC 263. Vettori is stepping into this fight riding a winning streak of 5 fights against Adesanya who is coming in this fight facing the first loss of his MMA career against Jan Blachowicz.
Both of them first entered inside the Octagon against each other at UFC on Fox: Poirier vs Gaethje where Marvin Vettori faced a split decision loss. But since now a lot of things have changed.
Vettori is undefeated since that fight and he believes Jan Blachowicz’s fight provided him many loopholes in Adesanya’s game. In his latest interview at Real Quick with Mike Swick Podcast,
Marvin Vettori says, “For me, it’s relevant, but it just proved a lot of things that I already knew, People pictured him like the Mayweather of MMA, and he’s not. He’s not.”
“Jan was doing a great job defensively and then he was able to take him down again. People were picturing him like this phenom. He’s good, but he gets hit, and he misses a lot of shots, and he gets taken down. I can do all of that.” {H/T MMA Junkie}
Marvin Vettori will be looking to show heavy grappling as he did against Kevin Holland
In his last fight against Kevin Holland, Marvin Vettori used a heavy grappling approach and he dominated Holland throughout all 5 rounds of the fight. He believes this is going to be his route to victory against Adesanya.
Vettori says, “With Jan, the last time he got taken down, he kind of quit, He was just laying there. Adesanya, when it comes to the middle of the cage, when he’s taken down in the middle of the cage and he doesn’t have the cage, he’s pretty useless on the floor, to be honest.”
“Kevin Holland is a better jiu-jitsu player than Adesanya for sure. Even when Adesanya said, and I made fun of it because even after the Blachowicz fight he was like, ‘I was trying to go for deep half.’” {H/T MMA Junkie}
Marvin Vettori continued, “I’m like, what the f**k are you talking about. There was no attempt to go to the deep half. That shows you don’t know what deep half is, and I know exactly what deep half is because I’ve been training with Fabricio Werdum.”
“I actually used deep half in my Roberson fight. I used it successfully. His game and the way he fights, because he scrambles hard the moment you try to take him down next to the cage, but yeah definitely when he’s down, he’s pretty useless, to be honest.” {H/T MMA Junkie}
A lot of people believe that Jan Blachowicz exposed the weakness of Israel Adesanya. What are your views on this do you think Marvin Vettori will be able to use the same approach against him?
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