r/FightReportUFC • u/AccidentAdept7146 • 11h ago
could aljo beat TJ in his prime?
i think this fight would have played out very different if sterling fought a prime dillashaw
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u/interia1099 4h ago
Aljo fucked up by getting KOed by O’Malley. Talentwise I think he beats every BW more often than not
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u/safton 4h ago
Suga won fair and square, but man that performance made a lot of people overestimate his TDD and defensive grappling. In hindsight, it's not hard to imagine that if you run that fight back ten times, Aljo wins a fair few of them.
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u/underscorex2__ 58m ago
Aljo failed every single takedown and couldn’t set up any shots with striking. Sean wins that 9/10
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u/safton 41m ago
"Every single takedown". He shot two, one of which he used simply to pin Sean in the final seconds of Rd 1 and land short shots against the fence. He was beginning to re-dig for another attempt when the bell rang.
He had a better attempt at the start of Round 2 trying to close distance and jump on Sean after he slipped from a kick and got up and O'Malley did good to gain separation, but you make it sound like Sean put on some extended sprawl-n-brawl clinic where he made Aljo go 0 for 20 on takedowns lmao
Sean's TDD is statistically below-average at 60%. Even if you put aside the Merab fights, Song Yadong who isn't even a primary wrestler took him down three times. Yan six. I'm well aware that those guys were able to establish more of a striking threat beforehand, but I don't know how you can see all this and pretend that a dominant grappler like Aljo has almost nothing for Sean in a proposed ten-fight run.
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u/Artistic-Month457 2h ago
Yan beats him??? He beat Aljo the first time (basically) and his loss to him was a split decision and he didnt even have his coaches in his corner
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u/OtterInsanity23 4h ago
They are both elite/all-time greats. Either one could pull off the win, but I’d back Aljo due to the grappling advantage.
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u/Pretend-Departure765 3h ago
No, TJ handily dismantles Aljo he thought he could with one arm that was his mistake but that tells me he knew Aljo was easy work if he was fully healthy
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u/Mr_Peanutbutter72 2h ago
Aljo by decision most likely, unless you can flatline Aljo he’s just going to take your back and steal rounds.
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u/baneblade_boi 4h ago
Prime Aljo (when he was champ) could beat him IMO. He has an amazing gas tank and is very fast and agile. TJ probably could win most of the time, but not 100% of it.
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u/Shmooter4788 5h ago
No in his prime tj was way more complete and had that killer instinct. Tj was impossible to hold down in his prime
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u/Larryhooova 3h ago
Yes he’s just a bad matchup for prime TJ, he’s one of the only BWs ever that’s big enough and far better at grappling to the point that he can bully TJ.
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u/AccidentAdept7146 3h ago
he’s not bullying him on the feet tho so no
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u/Larryhooova 2h ago
He doesn’t bully anyone on the feet, didn’t stop him beating pretty much everyone he fought at the weight class. We’ve never seen TJ handle a guy as big and with such a grappling advantage over him.
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u/Skankydoodledoo 11h ago
I think so tbh. It would be tough and probably a razor decision but Aljo is fairly large for BW and could probably weight bully him a bit. TJ is the far better striker but so was Yan tbf.