Petr Yan and Jose Aldo will compete for the vacant title at UFC 251 on Fight Island in what should be an absolute cracker. MikeyJ_MMA takes a look at this intriguing matchup. ⤵️
Yan has some impressive wrestling and is strong in the clinch but he will have a difficult time getting Aldo to the ground if he chooses to go that route. Yan secures 1.73 takedowns per 15 minutes at 53 per cent accuracy, however Aldo has some of the best takedown defence in UFC history at 91 per cent and when he is taken to the mat, he doesn’t stay there very long.
Aldo is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt and Yan has a blue belt but each fighter only has one submission win on their record so either fighter getting tapped out would be a shocking result.Believe it or not these two fighters have trained together in the past. Yan helped Aldo prepare for one of his past fights with Frankie Edgar at Aldo’s home Nova Uniao gym in Brazil. Aldo also trained with Yan in Russia.
Yan said earlier this week via a translator during a virtual UFC 251 media day that he has gotten much better since they trained together but he doesn’t think Aldo has evolved much over the years. “We sparred, we grappled. It was more than four years ago. I think I’m a better fighter since that time, but I don’t think he’s become a better fighter since that time,” Yan said. “I think at best, he’s stayed the same.”Yan was “very young” and “very raw” on the ground when they trained but that he welcomed him into his gym and doesn’t “see any reason for him to say bad things about me.
Aldo, on the other hand, has gone 3-5 in the past five year but 80 per cent of those losses were to current featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski, former champions Max Holloway and Conor McGregor. Considering how good Aldo looked against Moraes and how good he says he feels physically in his new weight class, it would be ignorant to dismiss his chances against Yan.
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