@@mattreid8292yee, you can’t really be at the top level in any weight class really without decent wrestling or take down defense. They should give Tai someone like Rozenstruik, he’s not going to wrestle Tai but isn’t going to demolish him with raw power like Pavlovich.
@@mattreid8292not only strikers but your typical heavyweight fatties, aka guys with the same style as Tuivasa himself and with bad physical shape. Against more technical and athletic fighters he literally shows nothing, his last 4 fights literally were beatdowns, and only Tybura one was on the ground, Gane, Volkov and Pavlovich destroyed him in the stand up (albeit he almost lucky punched Gane).
Hopefully he doesn’t have to fight Ben Rothwell, that dudes a monster in bare knuckle. Would end up in similar fashion as his fight against Pavlovich, except maybe a bit quicker.
@@bertifekete465true! I love Big Ben so much bro, very underrated HW with INSANE chin! I hope Tai still in ufc tho, he is still young for the division and can evolve. I mean even 38 years Marcin Tybura evolved as a fighter, he was a striker in his ufc debut and now he is a well rounded martial artist.
During his winning streak they were going on about how he moved to Dubai and now really took things seriously. I think that meant he tried to eat just a little bit less.
I love Tai's personality, and he's never in a boring fight, but he's got to evolve, or he'll forever be known as a brawler that's easily taken down and smashed or submitted.
Ilia Topuria was serious about going up a weight class huh. Wish he'd go back to featherweight i mean just look at whats hes going through now in this video
I love how he has no ground game and no sense of self-preservation. He just tries to stand up with no grappling defence and pays the price every time without fail. 😂
@@iminsideyou2717 But my point is Tai hits way harder than Tom and if Tom can soften Pavolivch up, Tai can avenge his only loss to him and bring himself back to the HW title conversation.
@@JoeyCentral There are lots of heavyweights who hit harder than Tom, doesn't mean they can do what he does. Also how are you using mma maths regarding Tom KOing Pav when Pav has already KO'd Tai?
@@JoeyCentral pavlo stood and banged with tai and put him out cold The aspinall fight, was just because aspinall was way faster, and the fact that he hit him straight to the temple, that would wobble any fighter, doesnt matter the power
Great match up bro 👍 Or rematch Arlovski and Lewis 😊 I think Tai can comeback, he IS still young for the Division, he only need takedown defense work and so grappling défense 👍
I like Tai's style, but i dont think he will have what it takes to make it beyond being a gatekeeper for the top 5 or top 10, his style is still unrefined and he just goes out looking for that one punch knockout.
"head movement"? No bro, his striking défense is not very good :( But i'm agree with about his hands speed. Tai is still young for the division, i really believe he can make a comeback in his ufc career 🤞
@@bugman747no bro, he dosen't "sucks", he just faced crazy opposition in a raw! He faced Gane, Pavlovich, Volkov and Tybura! Pavlovich and Volkov are monsters! Gane an Amazing technician, best striker in the division with Tom, Pavlovich and Volkov. Tybura is a solide veteran who is 8-2 in his last 10 fights, very tough and resistant HW. Well rounded expérienced guy. Tai is still young for the division, he can beat Rozenstruik, Lima, Despain, Tafa brothers, Arlovski in a rematch and Lewis in a rematch, Tybura in a rematch, Walt Harris etc..
Everyone’s ragging on tai in this comment section, but the fact is that we need guys like him in the sport. He’s fun and capable of beating or losing to just about everyone. Dude was about one clean punch away from TKO’ing Cyril gane.
if ciryl didn't get up after being knocked down then tai would've had a title shot against jon jones... but here we are, with tai on losing streak. life comes at you fast
He’s kind of like a good lower end gatekeeper for heavyweight. Like you shouldn’t be getting a title shot off him but get through him and you may be ready for one of the better guys
Damn that end with JDS is like classic mma, where there is one dude who knows absolutely nothing about grappling and gets mounted and just lies there like a dummy.
I feel for Struve. Every memory of that fight had to have been *eternal Mark Hunt trauma* until he woke up from having some Kiwi splashing a shooie onto his head.
December 2023 until now has been CRAZY for my checking account. Idk how these fights keep getting the lines they get lmao. If you thought Tui was going to win that last one, then maybe you are confused ar what sport you're watching
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Tailia Topuvasa sparring footage is awesome, thank you for sharing!
Why would i want to watch your streams. They are boring as hell and the main reason i unsubbed a while back.
Are you live streaming again? I’ve been gone for so long. Can we become members finally?
Why this vidéo?
He get cut by the UFC? 😢
No he didn't @@Mauvaiseodeur
This is great sparring footage of Ilia Topuria
FUHHHHHH
😂
@@ITPMMAleave it it’s funny
@@codyconnell6510agreed 👍🏾
Wrong name
tai tuivasa 2020-2022 linsanity run will never be forgotten
Against all strikers lol there’s a reason he isn’t in top 5 anymore
@@mattreid8292yee, you can’t really be at the top level in any weight class really without decent wrestling or take down defense. They should give Tai someone like Rozenstruik, he’s not going to wrestle Tai but isn’t going to demolish him with raw power like Pavlovich.
@@bertifekete465Tai should take 8-12 months off
The great can crushing campaign
@@mattreid8292not only strikers but your typical heavyweight fatties, aka guys with the same style as Tuivasa himself and with bad physical shape. Against more technical and athletic fighters he literally shows nothing, his last 4 fights literally were beatdowns, and only Tybura one was on the ground, Gane, Volkov and Pavlovich destroyed him in the stand up (albeit he almost lucky punched Gane).
Bkfc be smiling from ear to ear watching this..
Hopefully he doesn’t have to fight Ben Rothwell, that dudes a monster in bare knuckle. Would end up in similar fashion as his fight against Pavlovich, except maybe a bit quicker.
u mean bk and kfc
@@bertifekete465true!
I love Big Ben so much bro, very underrated HW with INSANE chin!
I hope Tai still in ufc tho, he is still young for the division and can evolve.
I mean even 38 years Marcin Tybura evolved as a fighter, he was a striker in his ufc debut and now he is a well rounded martial artist.
Feels like he doesn’t train to his fullest , he just wings it every fight
ye buffalo wing maybe
During his winning streak they were going on about how he moved to Dubai and now really took things seriously. I think that meant he tried to eat just a little bit less.
you mean he just eats hot fried chicken wings everytime
It seems that way. He has UFC Heavyweight Champion aspirations.
lol that was fire....fire and buffalo@@Brandovichie
I love Tai's personality, and he's never in a boring fight, but he's got to evolve, or he'll forever be known as a brawler that's easily taken down and smashed or submitted.
He will be forgotten before he’s remembered at this rate
Mark Hunt with even less of a ground game.
@@AngryJT pretty good comp tbh
You love that he acts like a piece of gutter trash?
Why do you expect him to be anything more? He's already an over achiever
He aint got the hunger….. well he got the wrong hunger
You can see that. The one time he had the hunger, he put on his best performance and came very close to beating Bon Gamin
It's funny making fun of pacific islanders!
3:24 Tai kicked Jason in the head 😭😭😭
lol good catch
Lol
One step forward two steps back
Could be a Tuivasa walk out song.
Ilia Topuria was serious about going up a weight class huh. Wish he'd go back to featherweight i mean just look at whats hes going through now in this video
Tai watched Rocky IV too much as a kid I think. He fought 2 Ivan Dragos back to back!
Taco Bell is the worst pre-fight meal
the Asker fight was so bruuuutal
I’ll always love him for the Greg Hardy ko.
No ground game and bad takedown defense is his kryptonite
Seen a cow today and it shited its whole ass
Taco Bell in the locker room for a main event will always be legendary
Brutal losses most of them. It's weird that he never got a better coach and a nutritionist to his team lol
West Sydney Baby he got better beer man that's all that it takes
He fights at HW so he can eat junk food and not have to cut any weight
@whyareyoureadingmyname5854 No, he has to cut weight to make 266 lbs which is the max.
I love how he has no ground game and no sense of self-preservation. He just tries to stand up with no grappling defence and pays the price every time without fail. 😂
No ground game in the UFC this is the results.
3 minutes of Charles Oliveira calling an ambulance, but not for him!
2:50 that dude yelling his voice off
Pavlovich moreso than Gane derailed his career at the top. Just showed that Tai doesn't belong in the upper echelon of Heavyweight
Idk man I think he should rematch Pavlovich. If Aspinall was able to put him to sleep, then Tai can as well.
@@JoeyCentralthe thing is that aspinall isn’t a brawler, he’s technically sound, something tai is not known for
@@iminsideyou2717 But my point is Tai hits way harder than Tom and if Tom can soften Pavolivch up, Tai can avenge his only loss to him and bring himself back to the HW title conversation.
@@JoeyCentral There are lots of heavyweights who hit harder than Tom, doesn't mean they can do what he does. Also how are you using mma maths regarding Tom KOing Pav when Pav has already KO'd Tai?
@@JoeyCentral pavlo stood and banged with tai and put him out cold
The aspinall fight, was just because aspinall was way faster, and the fact that he hit him straight to the temple, that would wobble any fighter, doesnt matter the power
Jason Herzog slipping the kick as Tai climbs cage, got me dead 💀
Love tai love itp as well 😂😂
I wanna see tai vs one of the tafa brothers, let's make it happen
Great match up bro 👍
Or rematch Arlovski and Lewis 😊
I think Tai can comeback, he IS still young for the Division, he only need takedown defense work and so grappling défense 👍
Who the tafas been are??
What they been is? Ufc fighters?
Great video! Favorite mma channel fr!
Yo ITP just wanna say so happy you're back brother! Looking forward to the streams
Getting put completely out cold twice in a row ruined him. Now he's becoming the HW Tony Ferguson
Still can't believe he beat Lewis
your subscribe request is so polite. it's my favorite
he's still one of my favorite heavyweights ever. he's kinda like derrick lewis, a solid, scary gatekeeper at heavyweight.
He is a way better boxer than Lewis tho.
His low kicks are extremly brutal too.
I would like to watch the rematch 😊
Tai NEED a win 💚
His losing streak is bittersweet for me because I love Tai, but I effing hate shooeys.
U take a drug test after ur fight blood and urine so it's ok alcohol is in ur blood...usada was a fake from day 1
The Greg hardy KO still makes me smile
One of the best can crushers in mma
Tai its John Lennon here, I need $15 for beer money. Imagin.
Unranked Tuivasa is a force to be reckoned with
If the opponent has a little bit of talent, Tai loses
Derrick Lewis: 🧿🫦🧿
Dam the big man event...respect to all the fighters!
Tai offence: hook, hook, hook, uppercut. Elbow. Then repeat.
Tai defence: Duck, swing haymaker and pray. And repeat.
I like Tai's style, but i dont think he will have what it takes to make it beyond being a gatekeeper for the top 5 or top 10, his style is still unrefined and he just goes out looking for that one punch knockout.
mans is truly a journeyman
tai has got to have the record for being finished the most times via some sort of head and arm choke
any reason to post the hardy KO is good with me 😂
Damn got to give it to Asker, the dude took some huuuge shots.
He’s a warrior with great head movement and great hand speed. I enjoyed this video
he sucks now
"head movement"?
No bro, his striking défense is not very good :(
But i'm agree with about his hands speed.
Tai is still young for the division, i really believe he can make a comeback in his ufc career 🤞
@@bugman747no bro, he dosen't "sucks", he just faced crazy opposition in a raw!
He faced Gane, Pavlovich, Volkov and Tybura!
Pavlovich and Volkov are monsters!
Gane an Amazing technician, best striker in the division with Tom, Pavlovich and Volkov.
Tybura is a solide veteran who is 8-2 in his last 10 fights, very tough and resistant HW.
Well rounded expérienced guy.
Tai is still young for the division, he can beat Rozenstruik, Lima, Despain, Tafa brothers, Arlovski in a rematch and Lewis in a rematch, Tybura in a rematch, Walt Harris etc..
He's on the losing streak when his body is breaking down fat cells
Asker head clash was nasty.
His elbows up against the cage are vicious
The ilia sparring curse strikes itp again lmao
I'll take 8 minutes of Tai in any 3 minute video you make!
He can be a very good top 5 gate keeper.
3:23 rare footage of Ilia landing a Headkick
I love how he ko's Greg Hardy and literally tries to kill him lmao
Everyone’s ragging on tai in this comment section, but the fact is that we need guys like him in the sport. He’s fun and capable of beating or losing to just about everyone. Dude was about one clean punch away from TKO’ing Cyril gane.
Tai is somehow a locker room glue guy in the UFC lmao
Crazy to think he was one punch away from a title shot
I thought this said "being sneaky af" and I was intrigued
One day instead of "Illia topuria sparring" this will be called "Bareknuckle boxings greatest heavyweight, UFC Run"
Amazing ilia footage nice ko over Derrick Lewis as well (shoey!!!!)
his ground defense is in the - negatives...but he is banger
Real Mark Hunt successor
Struve was having flashback’s from Mark Hunt fight
Damn this Ilia Topuria dude is streaky, i will bet against him next time, thank you for your contribution kind sir
I knew he wasnt shit when i was watching him in the back warming up and he had bags of taco bell he was eating
if ciryl didn't get up after being knocked down then tai would've had a title shot against jon jones... but here we are, with tai on losing streak. life comes at you fast
Tai is on the fast track for some CTE and a subsequent DVO
Bye tai it was fun watching ya 🥹
So dammm sneaky for sure
No one:
Me: He's the Dominic Cruz of the Walterweight division
I wanna see this Ilia Topuria guy fight in BKFC.
Damn! Ilia did put some pounds in his build.
He really is just mark hunt but without mark hunts chin lol
I love Tai. Sadly I can't bet money on him anymore after that Tybura let down
Ilia Topuria really let's himself go out of fight camp
He's Mark Hunt 2.0.
Props to Asker chin
Damn when did Ilia Topuria put on 100lbs?
great idea showing the losses
Is there a record for most streaks?
I'm gonna miss him... needs to be a prelim fighter against other bangers, no more wrestlers, no more grapplers, just braindead brawlers.
Forgot how good he is
what couldve been if he had finished gane in R2
I heard some people got cut from the ufc but they haven’t said who he should be one of them
He was definitely streaky after that Taco Bell
brown streaks is his XXL shorts
I miss the days of JDS prime I was like 8-10 years old
He’s kind of like a good lower end gatekeeper for heavyweight. Like you shouldn’t be getting a title shot off him but get through him and you may be ready for one of the better guys
his wrestling is ZERO, his grappling is ZERO!
When your ground game is zero, shit happened
Damn that end with JDS is like classic mma, where there is one dude who knows absolutely nothing about grappling and gets mounted and just lies there like a dummy.
I feel for Struve. Every memory of that fight had to have been *eternal Mark Hunt trauma* until he woke up from having some Kiwi splashing a shooie onto his head.
This just means he’s now prime to go on a win streak 👊😅 I hope
Let him streak again
Crazy that he got all the way to rank 3
he beat the #3 guy
Yeah this isn't the HW I grew up with. This is the only division where the old era was superior 😂
I'm pretty streaky after taco bell lol
TUIVASA HAD GANE FINISHED! Goddamn.
5:53 That strike Gane threw to the back of his kneck/head was baaaad.
Huge fan of the fist to the back of the head vs Gane. Not like it not landing would have changed the fight outcome but still.
I love this guy but bless him, he just hasn't got it.
i dont get the junior dos santos stoppage
December 2023 until now has been CRAZY for my checking account. Idk how these fights keep getting the lines they get lmao. If you thought Tui was going to win that last one, then maybe you are confused ar what sport you're watching
Vitor punches up like that when he is mounted...makes me think his black belt came as a toy in a happy meal from da Nogs...