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Jimmie was outstriking Pyotr by a small margin but losing each round badly at the end. That knee/shin landed hard! I wish Yan had a half a minute more to work.
Yan wins.
touch -CRE -Jimmie was outstriking Pyotr by a small margin but losing each round badly at the end. That knee/shin landed hard! I wish Yan had a half a minute more to work.
Off night for Yan. He didn’t catch his rhythm until like 7 minutes in? Obviously that’s a credit to Rivera too but once Yan got warmed up it was very dangerous.
I feel like everyone Yan beats that was once elite top 5 looks like they should retire after, as if they’ll never be Champion with him around so they might as well hang the gloves up. I’m thinking Ricky Simon will do the same to Urijah Faber. New generation of Bantamweight is maybe the best all around fighters in all of MMA.
“In sixth grade, Yan began training in taekwondo and often fought in the streets and at the school in his area, so his family often moved to try and prevent this. Yan’s older brother trained in boxing in the city of Dudinka, Krasnoyarsk Krai, and Petr wanted to learn how to box, too. But his elder brother initially refused to take Petr along with him, thus Petr decided to sneak and follow his brother to go to learn the sport of boxing. From then on, Petr went on to train in boxing for 8 years and achieved the rank of Master of Sport in Boxing in the 64 kg weight category.[2] Petr Yan also graduated from the Siberian Federal University in the city of Omsk with a degree in Physical Culture and Sport”
as you know touch Yan fought two 5 round battles with Magomed Magomedov who is an incredible fighter also. I am surprised that Magomedov is not signed to UFC yet. 3:46 Datsik headbutt
Петр Ян. Petr Yan. Highlights - YouTube
One of his Grandparents is Chinese supposedly. Hence the last name Yan.
Born in Russia, and of mixed Chinese and Russian ancestry, Yan trains out of Tiger Muay Thai in Phuket, Thailand, a regular stomping ground for dozens of high-level MMA fighters.