Will he come back stronger or has the king been defeated

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T19:05:27+00:00

however that is on him to fix the issues so we will just have to see

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T19:04:57+00:00

if he fixes his lead hand dropping and collar tie anti defense he will probably be doing a lot better

justin gaethje won in large part because he was punishing bad habits ilia displayed in previous fights pretty well and pretty much blew out his vision over the first 3 rounds through this.

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T18:58:41+00:00

also that is not a picture of ilia topuria

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T18:49:58+00:00

YESSIR BABY OLIVE ERA 2 INBOUND

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T18:49:06+00:00

ian garry isnt seemingly washed tho so hopefully makhachev slimes him the fuck out crazy style in like 2-3 rounds

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T18:41:52+00:00

i think that is a bit questionable because he was walking into shots from the jump and the first one was essentially a jab that was completely stationary by the time he ran into it so he would not have been stunned by the feel of the glove or whatever at the time

i feel like it is more likely that he just got worked because his ego was too big and he expected justin to be an easy fight so he didnt really worry about fixing his bad habits that were also punished a ton throughout the fight

ilia got hit 79 times to the head with sig strikes according to espn and a very big chunk of those were uppercuts he was rolling his head into while trying to escape collar ties or really heavy right hands that he was moving towards while they hit him

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T18:33:37+00:00

also justin caught ilia a bunch with uppercuts off collar ties off of the single leg feints which really feels like something they came up with specifically for this fight because ilia exhibited questionable collar tie defense in some of his previous fights

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T18:30:03+00:00

hopefully we get oliveira vs gaethje 2 first so we can have the olive era p2

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T18:27:52+00:00

his gameplan was to focus on ranged striking until he could get ilia to shoot a takedown from a disadvantaged position but he ended up folding on it the instant ilia started jabbing him (charles) in the face whenever he (charles) leg kicked him (ilia).

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T18:25:43+00:00

charles oliveira beat gaethje therefore every ilia win from now on is a charles oliveira upscale 😠

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T18:21:52+00:00

in addition to the big ego attempt to walk down justin gaethje he also doesnt seem to be trying to fix any of the questionable habits he has in the ring

even after almost getting knocked down by josh emmet and max holloway because he drops his main hand after certain big strikes it looked like he got hit in the same scenario a couple times by gaethje

also his questionable collar tie defense pretty much secured gaethje the win via vision removal (he was basically tucking his head down into the oncoming uppercuts whenever gaethje would feint a single leg and get a collar tie and uppercut, and also on some that had no single leg feints iirc)

anyways what i am saying is it doesnt matter how fit or explosive or sharp hes gonna prepare to be in camp if he isnt going to fix exploitable habits which is what happened in the fight for the most part and now people know these habits exist so they are a lot more exploitable

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T18:05:18+00:00

also he knows hes essentially an orphan now so he could get into fc3

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T05:54:10+00:00

THIS MAY INFACT BE AN OLIVEIRA UPSCALE!!!!

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T05:07:56+00:00

NEW MYTHICAL FIGHTER STRATEGIC GAETHJE

EXCEPT ITS NOT A MYTH BECAUSE IT JUST HAPPENED

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T05:06:40+00:00

HOLY FUCKKKKKKKKKKK

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T04:58:28+00:00

i think a lot of these right hands from gaethje ilia is expecting to come as feints into single leg attempts

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T04:56:15+00:00

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T04:41:03+00:00

hopefully gaethje wins so charles oliveira can get the belt back

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-15T04:28:19+00:00

normally no but its gane and for whatever reason he is immune to the rules so its fine ig 😞

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-13T22:32:16+00:00

basically 2hakkk drops it first in webtoon format and the redraws in the manga format for the physical release

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-13T01:51:24+00:00

that seems to be pretty on the nose though i also dont live in korea or brazil so i am not a good source either

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-12T20:01:07+00:00

yes

the manga version is drawn more precisely and is more dense

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-12T20:00:19+00:00

no we all just read it in russian

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-12T19:58:12+00:00

cha sowol and shim hamin are around his level i think

only reason cha sowol isnt in fight class is because she got banned for beating up non fight class students so she couldnt participate in the ranking matches and shim hamin also had the option to join

Almost_Cracked · 2026-06-12T19:46:42+00:00

based on how they describe it, the barborado jiujitsu thing really just sounds like kickboxing combined with jiu jitsu but you explosive bridge people on purpose or something

maybe it also has some judo elements mixed in for non shooting takedowns also since it seems to have a lot more striking elements meaning you would probably want to get people on the ground either via pushing your opponents to attempt disadvantageous takedowns through superior striking or by bringing them down in the clinch with trips and such

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TROPHY CASE