{"id":432124,"date":"2022-02-09T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=432124"},"modified":"2022-02-09T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:04:10","slug":"brendan-schaub-weighs-in-on-robert-whittakers-game-plan-for-israel-adesanya-rematch-hes-making-a-huge-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/brendan-schaub-weighs-in-on-robert-whittakers-game-plan-for-israel-adesanya-rematch-hes-making-a-huge-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Schaub weighs in on Robert Whittaker\u2019s game plan for Israel Adesanya rematch: \u201cHe\u2019s making a huge mistake”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brendan Schaub, the former UFC heavyweight, weighed in on Robert Whittaker’s game plan for a rematch with Israel Adesanya during his YouTube podcast ‘The Schaub Show’.<\/p>\n

Schaub thinks Whittaker should come up with his own strategy to beat Israel Adesanya, and not be relying on replicating<\/a> Jan Blachowicz’s gameplan.<\/p>\n

Jan Blachowicz met up with ‘The Last Stylebender’ at UFC 259 in March of 2021. The outcome was Blanchowicz (28-9 MMA) defeating Adesanya (21-1 MMA) via unanimous decision. It was to be Adesanya’s only blemish on his MMA record.<\/p>\n

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Brendan Schaub expressed his view that Whittaker was making a ‘huge mistake’ if he’s trying to copy Jan Blanchowiczs’ gameplan:<\/div>\n
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“I think he’s making a huge mistake thinking that his gameplan at middleweight will work the same as it worked for Jan Blachowicz who walks around at 240 lbs. I think he’s making a huge mistake if he thinks that he’s gonna have the same success on takedowns that Jan Blachowicz had at 240 lbs against a lighter Izzy.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Continuing Schaub said:<\/p>\n

“I think Jan set a blueprint on how to beat him Israel Adesanya. Definitely we saw that Izzy is much less dangerous off his back. Still dangerous but less dangerous. You know, if I was a strategist I would be writing down all the points which Jan utilized to take that win and then putting it in my own.”<\/em><\/p>\n