Name: Previewing the Stylebender vs. Alex Pereira Fight
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Previewing the Stylebender vs. Alex Pereira Fight' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-11. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Previewing the Stylebender vs. Alex Pereira Fight' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-11. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- What are your thoughts on that fight this weekend?
'Cause that's a big fight.
- My thoughts on it, bro,
is way different from everybody else's,
you know what I mean?
'Cause people call me crazy all the time,
but I think it's gonna be like the same fight
that we seen Yoel and Izzy with.
Where you got two people just staring each other down,
you know, not trying to make that move
because they both had the capabilities
of knocking each other out.
Or Francis Ngannou versus Derrick Lewis,
you know what I mean?
So, and with everything,
the hype being behind this fight too,
you know, Izzy is gonna, hopefully,
like I said, if he don't apply his emotions into it
like he hasn't done with every other fight,
I feel like he's gonna do enough to win,
but I feel like Alex Pereira is not gonna be able
to apply that pressure on Izzy
just because he won't have the energy
to sustain that for five rounds.
Remember, this is a five-rounder.
- Right, because of the fact that he's cutting so much weight.
- Thank you, you know what I mean?
And then plus, we don't see Alex Pereira move a lot anyway
in his fights.
You only seen with Bruno Silva
where he pushed him up against the cage a lot,
and that was a good fight to watch.
- It was a very good fight to watch.
- It was a very good fight to watch.
He got hit in that fight.
- Oh, he got touched up real good.
- Yeah, Bruno Silva's a very good striker.
- Man, big facts, you know,
well, I don't know what to say,
but I get what you're saying.
He got good power.
- He's in your weight class.
- Yeah, I know, yeah, yeah.
I'll be seeing guys and I'll be like,
"This is why they winning these fights."
You know what I mean?
So I know that you're not a boxer.
I know that you're not a kickboxer,
not a heavy striker,
'cause he's more of a jiu-jitsu,
he's more of a grappler.
But Bruno Silva got good power.
- Right. - You know what I'm saying?
So he able to wane some of the punches,
'cause a lot of times,
like Bruno Silva be getting his ass,
well, even Jordan Wright was touching him.
- Mm-hmm.
- Jordan Wright was touching Bruno Silva,
but then, you know, Jordan Wright just got caught.
- Stood in front of him.
- Just stood, exactly, stood in front of him,
got caught, and it was all,
and it don't take that much in the four-ounce gloves.
- And that's why this Pereira fight
is so interesting, though,
because Pereira has that ridiculous power.
- He just need that one shot.
He just need that one shot,
but the thing about Izzy,
he is patient,
and he would,
well, we're not gonna call it boring,
but he would strategically break you down
all night long for 25 minutes.
- Like the Palo Costa fight.
- If he gotta touch that leg all day,
he gonna touch it.
You know, if you ain't gonna do nothing about it,
if you're not gonna answer back,
that's what he gonna do.
But I feel like in my heart,
you know what I mean?
That Alex Pereira, unfortunately,
doesn't have the actual ability
to fight Izzy the way he needs to win.
- For five rounds.
- For five rounds.
- Because he's so big.
- Yeah, that's one of the reasons,
but I just think between both of them,
it's gonna be a boring fight.
It's not gonna be as exciting
as people think it might be.
And that's the thing,
Izzy needs that type of exciting fight right now.
You know, because of the Jared Canineer fight.
You know, we can say Palo Costa,
but that was so, how long ago, 2020?
You know what I'm saying?
So we been expecting this from the champ
because he's so pulverized
outside the cage where, you know,
the French tits, the pearl necklace,
you know what I mean?
Doing all these little videos
and dancing and all that,
just showman stuff.
But we want to see that showcase
in the cage as well, you know?
And that's my biggest thing.
I'm impressed by Izzy,
and I'm a fan of Izzy, first off.
But I feel like if you don't bring the fight to him,
he's not gonna bring it to you.
That make sense?
Yes, I feel what you're saying.
So, like, he's willing to dance.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, big facts.
I mean, people forget that there was quite a few fights
where Anderson Silva did the same thing.
He laid Talos Leites.
Remember that fight?
Yes, yes.
You know, there was many fights where, you know,
he laid back and waited for guys to come at Anderson.
Even better than Damien Maia.
Yes.
You know what I'm saying?
And I mean, boy, Danny was mad about that one.
You hear me?
You know?
But at the same time, that's the way he won.
Yes.
You know?
Because why would I engage with you
knowing what you're trying to do?
Right.
You understand?
Yeah.
So, like I said, with that being said,
I'm not mad at Izzy
because he gonna do whatever it takes to keep that belt.
Mm-hmm.
That's the money.
Right.
You know?
Alex Pereira wants that.
But the thing is, though, I don't think
his ability is gonna beat her
in order to take it away from him, you know?
And they just gonna be standing right in front of him
and it's gonna be a kickboxing bout.
And they be like, oh, well, the other ones
were kickboxing, but you already seen from Izzy.
Well, I was a little bit more emotional
in those other fights.
Mm-hmm.
And that's why I lost.
But then you see the strategic Izzy now.
I don't see Alex Pereira beating him.
Interesting.
Very interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah, I take into account what you're saying
about the five rounds and the weight cut
'cause that is a big factor.
That's a big factor.
That's the hugest factor, yeah.
Because Alex is so big,
but without the wrestling threat,
'cause Izzy's not really a guy
who takes anybody down.
I'm about to say, yeah,
who out there wrestling?
Right.
So everybody think like,
oh, Izzy gonna turn into a wrestler?
No, he ain't.
No.
You only fight the way you train.
Yeah.
You know?
And not saying you don't work on that element of wrestling,
but I don't see Izzy like shooting a jab,
shooting across, shooting hook, and double lick.
No.
That's not finna happen.
I mean, if it does, I'll be stunned.
I'll be shocked.
I'm sure he can do it.
I'll be shocked.
But thing is, though, now you got to engage with,
and that boy a sniper.
Alex Pereira.
Can we pull up that, if you don't mind?
No, please.
With Alex Pereira, with him shooting like,
you know what I'm saying, sniping with the arrows.
Yeah, when he shot the soccer ball.
Bro, man, that's crazy.
Because my biggest thing is, though, like,
Alex Pereira is the same type of beast, too, right?
He's a trap.
He waits all day, and once you expose yourself,
or you come close enough, he hits you.
Like Sean Strickland.
Yeah.
Sean Strickland stood right in front of him.
But it wasn't even just standing right in front of him.
He was marching him down with his hands down.
Well, yeah, he keeps his hands, like,
he has a very strange style.
Yeah.
So here's him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I ain't gonna lie, this was cold.
It's pretty badass.
This was cold, man.
It's pretty badass.
And it ain't one of those special little arrows,
either, like bowing arrows.
Like, this one of them he just made in the house.
Well, that's a recurve bow.
He grabbed a stick and grabbed a strain.
Yeah, that's a recurve bow.
That's a much harder bow to shoot than what I shoot.
I shoot a compound bow.
Man.
That takes real skill.
Yeah.
Look at him.
That roar that he has is terrifying.
I'm very excited about this fight, man.
I don't know, you know, what kind of preparation he's done
in terms of getting himself lighter for a five-round fight
and making sure that the cut is not as bad.
I don't know, but he looks shredded already.
Yeah, he looks shredded, man.
And he looked like he killing himself to make that weight.
That's all I'm going to say.
He certainly is losing a lot of weight to make that weight.
He killed himself to get to that weight.
But like I said, Izzy-
But he's done it many, many times.
But you see Izzy doing all this press, doing all this stuff.
Now, to be honest with you, I'd be like, it's a positive thing.
But at the same time, I ain't never seen him do this much work before,
or preparation for a fight, where it comes to selling.
Press?
Yeah, press.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, but they make you do that.
I mean, this is Madison Square Garden.
But this is the most I've ever seen.
I pay attention to these fighters all the time
because they're in the weight class, right?
I want to be these guys, right?
I want to take their belt, right?
So I pay close attention to what they do all the time,
and especially Izzy because he's a champ.
So besides it just being ESPN+, you know he got his own YouTube channel
and everything like that.
And I mean, I feel like he done amped it up even more.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
That's either showing me that you have a lot of confidence about yourself
and you're able to take this fight.
I'm going to say not so serious, but not as serious
because you're doing other stuff on top of this, right?
Alex Pereira is only focusing on training and fighting right now.
There ain't no press for him, for real, for real.
You know what I mean?
So he's taking it into initiative, I'm talking about Izzy,
to promote this fight as best as he can
so you also taking away from your training at the end of the day, right?
So that's, but I feel like he think he's good enough
to do what he's going to do in order to take time away from his training.
But isn't that just what the UFC obligates him to do?
Because he's selling the fight and he has pay-per-view points.
Not with everything.
But he has pay-per-view points.
I feel you, but I feel like...
He also is the only one that speaks English.
Alex doesn't speak English.
Yeah, yeah, true story.
So that makes it difficult.
Yeah.
But I feel like a lot of stuff he's been doing on his own as well.
Doing extra stuff, you know?
Which I don't mind it because you got to promote the fight.
You got to do whatever you got to do in order to get people to buy in, you know?
And to be honest with you, it's not that hard of a buy-in because
even with Alex Pereira not being able to speak English,
he's the only person that beat him.
Only person that knocked him out.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
So that's an easy sell on itself.
So my thing is why is Alex Pereira trying so hard?
You know what I mean?
Like this is the one that if I wasn't an MMA head and I was just like whatever,
just watching this stuff, I'm like, oh, okay, that'd be interesting to watch.
Dude that already knocked him out.
This dude is undefeated in MMA, but still could be a close fight.
I'll watch it, you know?
But Izzy is going about his weight and like I said, I don't know what's going
on in his head,
but I feel like he's not trying to think about the fight itself,
even though it is the press conference and all this other stuff.
He's trying to get himself more calm, right?
He want to be around more people.
I forget who.
That's another fighter that talked about that and the reason why he always
stayed,
you know, in the press and in interviews because it took him away from the
fight.
You know?
They always wanted to be in the light.
I forget what.
I know what you're saying.
So the more you do other stuff, you can just have fun and it loosens you up and
talk to people.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Exactly.
And you ain't got to actually focus on the actual mission itself, you know?
You just go to the mission, you know?
So I don't know.
It's two ways to go about it, you know?
And I feel like if Izzy goes out, like I said, emotional, he will get caught,
you know?
So I feel like he needs to keep doing it.
Like even when he play around like, oh, I might just kick his leg and just jab
him the whole fight.
Do that.
Even with him joking, do that, you know?
Because at the same time, that's how you been winning your fights this whole
time.
A lot of them.
A lot of them.