After 2 straight losses the Mauler meeded desperately a win against the Polish fighter who needed also a win the enter in the first 10 heavyweights in the world. In matter of striking the 2 fighters are very close, maybe Blachowicz is more powerful and Gustafsson is more quick, the striking has been the main part of teh first part of the first round where the Polish fighter had a lil advantage in strikes landed until the Swedish took it to the ground with a perfect takedown from the clinch that gave him a position of advantage in the guard of his opponent, once there he landed some vicious elbows right to his face and it took long until the round ended. Gustafsson understood the big deficit in matter of grappling of his opponent and after an hard exchange of punches he delivered another takedown to led the same situation happened at the end of the first round, the same happened also in the third due to the inability of the Polish fighter to defend the takedowns.
The match ended with the unanimous win by the Mauler but in my opinion he wasn't at the same level of when he faced Jones for the title, he suffered too much on striking as it happened against Johnson, on the other side Blachowicz need to improve so much his takedown defense to be competitive at high levels.
The match ended with the unanimous win by the Mauler but in my opinion he wasn't at the same level of when he faced Jones for the title, he suffered too much on striking as it happened against Johnson, on the other side Blachowicz need to improve so much his takedown defense to be competitive at high levels.
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