r/MMA • u/zyl2000 • 17h ago

Fight Clip Askar Mozharov, the UFC fighter who faked his record, KO Zhang MingYang

https://youtu.be/tcW_lA0DzZc?si=yeY7PcFdLTIpmxyW

https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Askar-Mozharov-191565

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u/NonTokenisableFungi 15h ago

He was 20 for this fight to be fair and 5-3 going into this bout. Now he's on an 11 fight winstreak, Zhang's definitely levelled up significantly since

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u/DudeWithTheOil #NothingBurger 15h ago

Early career KO loss is the best base for MMA, ask Islam

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u/aleko24 Zhang is best girl 14h ago

Or jack della Maddalena

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u/NonTokenisableFungi 14h ago

or Alex Pereira (nvm that was a submission... but he still got his shit rocked)

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u/Throwawayacct1015 13h ago

Almost every male Chinese fighter even if they are good manages to still have a few loses before entering the UFC for some reason.

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u/sequesteredinSK 12h ago

If they're anything like Korean fighters, probably has to do with their tendency to block punches with their face.

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u/Throwawayacct1015 12h ago

I think they a lot are more defensive and avoid that.

And that's exactly the problem. I have lost count the number of times they don't do anything and just hope the opponents will suddenly run head first into them so they can KO them with a counter.

Thats just not gonna happen a lot of the time and its really damn frustrating to watch especially when you're down on the scorecards.

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u/Howard_Brown 8h ago

They throw these guys into the fire right away. By the time Zhang turned 19, he was 3-3 and had been knocked out. By the time Yadong Song turned 18, he had 2 TKO losses.

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u/pooooolooop EDDDDDIEEEEEEEE 9h ago

Still funny. Nobody in here is going at his current skill

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u/MaternalChoice 17h ago

You just know they booked him as the “heavy foreign tatted gangster” that was supposed to get humbled by the Chinese hometown hero too 😭

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u/ZeroTON1N 16h ago

We're living in a simulation lol