The Max Holloway and Zhang Weili Appreciation Episode (Jack Slack Podcast 177)

[@SupCass]

the slowly fading in and out Gegard Is terrifying

[@benjibowser5181]

Zhang is an absolute professional and Max is the most entertaining fighter on the roster .

[@okmann98]

Gegard fading into the picture was a nice touch

[@jackslacktimestampplaylist]

Only the timestamps for the best podcast in mma media, and not about misfit boxing or haiku's about rhonda rousey. 0:00 Max Holloway study 0:45 Pun 1:01 Taylor vs Catteral Review 4:17 Harry Hardwick is cool 5:19 Shovel hook for the people who love the smell of their own farts 6:16 Rampage on Jon Jones (not that interesting) 6:38 PFL drama 7:50 Jack watches Gegard Mousasi interview 9:07 Gegard real evaluation 11:48 PFL is the worst and the interview is gold 12:49 Usman Nurmagomedov fails drug test 13:18 Two big names can't get fights 15:09 PFL rebuttal 15:53 snoring for a mediocre podcast where don davis gives love to himself 17:54 Sus if you are not booking money, like ONE 19:27 ADCC, big names will not compete due to the low pay 21:22 Craig Jones the cheeky scamp 23:02 the problem with this idea 23:38 Why the style of british boxing has perished? Style of switch hitters 26:32 the winkabank gym in sheffield that produced switch hitters 31:10 How Jack got into switch hitting 32:44 Defensive holes into the less dominant stance 33:44 Switching hitting popularity 36:20 Is boxing having a renaissance? and rajadamnern prounciation 41:40 Undefeating record building 42:44 Movement feints and combos, double jab is the best weapon in mma 45:11 The fighting pen and Zhang Weili question 47:40 So much time in the day to work on stuff 49:23 Knowing more vs doing what you're good at 50:07 End of the Holloway article, being fearless and experimenting 51:25 UFC 302 boicast preview 52:15 Blessing

[@organicenergy5124]

Goat

[@phishdough]

No Shevchenko appreciation :(

[@pharawoahthesecond7551]

He was showing his love and appreciation for her every week at one point😊

[@GarishMotley]

Lmao back kicks that didn’t go as planned

[@Kimura1313]

Jack hates Valentina lol

[@pedroalexandredillemburg3751]

​@@Kimura1313 yeah, that's the joke

[@le3336]

Terrible technique compared to top 3 men’s 135 division

[@giancarlofermin5719]

gegard trying his best to manifest in the podcast starts at around 4:11

[@randombencounter263]

The Fighting Pen of how to double-jab and when.

[@markcorrigan3930]

Please Jack do an ANTI-anti-wrestler guide for wrestler/grapplers. A Dirty Boxing 2, you have to finish what Lindland started

[@markcorrigan3930]

12:01

[@Krazo101]

The Weili fight kit for 300 was cold as fuck.

[@Kimura1313]

Best custom kit in the Venum era. Wish they sold that in men’s

[@timeisnotaline]

Oh look, my favorite male and female fighters, respectively. Bless!

[@evosteff]

- Everyone that started watching MMA in the last 2 years 🤣

[@timeisnotaline]

@@evosteff And what's wrong with that? There will always be new fans, and I'm glad they have exciting fighters to support. The only comments you leave on this channel are shit posts. It's embarrassing.

[@dogeclark2265]

Dude I was about to comment the same thing!

[@johnfloyd8985]

@@evosteff Don't know where the hell you've been. Max has been a fan favorite for close to a decade and I was a huge fan of Weili before she came to the UFC, wondering why it was taking them so long to pick her up.

[@tsangjumbo987]

Thank you so much for talking about Weili, she is my role model and inspired me to start exercising and watch mma. It's great that one of the most respected writers of combat sports would even acknowledge her. I look forward to more of your writing and podcast, The Fighting Pen. Jaiyou!

[@harryhardwick3267]

Thankyou mate! Me and George still got our best years ahead of us! Gotta thankyou for your articles they made a huge difference when we were coming up massive part of how we managed to keep learning outside of the gym

[@mcryan3890]

Look im not saying Gegard is right or wrong. Im just saying you could put together a 27 minute super cut of him complaining about something easily.

[@aussieflintknapping]

This is hilariously true

[@SalvadorDardy]

On the one hand, I'm all for these workers speaking up about shitty conditions. On the other hand, I'm like man, is this guy complaining again??

[@bigquinn7474]

you're the first youtuber to respond to a question i asked in a video, thanks as always mr slacky

[@chris92945]

Jack being cheeky and snarky about Gegard is still one of his best shticks.

[@heysmilebomb]

nah this period of boxing is awesome and I’m so glad to be alive for it hope you cover more boxing, especially Japanese boxing ❤

[@loganwheeler1734]

Hey Jack really loved this episode - lots of great information! Thanks for making this show I've loved for so long

[@The31st]

Coming from a traditional MA background I've always been a switch hitter. But what I've found in kick boxing and MMA is that if I try to do my normal orthodox stuff in Southpaw, that's when I get hit. What works for me is having a totally different style between the two stances that lets me use the best of the stance while staying safe and giving the opponent more to think about. Or I guess more accurately I have open and closed stance strategies. I hate to admit it but my open stance style is very inspired by McGregor, ultra long range with lots of hand fighting. While in closed stance I'm in mid range to kick and jab my way in

[@rico14]

I think that’s the most realistic to fight switching stances. As a natural conventional fighter. When I spar southpaw I mainly just spam left kicks and crosses.

[@jameskendrick7805]

i love it when jack says rajadamnern aka the other stadium not lumpinee

[@Jeremyramone]

Switch stance skateboarding opens a window to a whole new world of potentialities.

[@philthh]

So does switching hands you jack your slack with

[@brandon-xc5kk]

⁠​⁠@@philthhnot new just an average Sunday night

[@bbguy17]

Herron Graham was slick as hell. He was a big influence on Prince Naseem Hamed as they came from the same gym. He was throwing the signature corkscrew uppercut that Prince and now Conor use and had similar slick angles and footwork like Prince

[@lsvbetmachineRU]

thank you good sir

[@alone-zi7xh]

enjoyed the questions !

[@zippyzooza]

oh jack slack podcast timestamp guy i miss you so much

[@talkingfights]

thanks for the vid

[@Exiecutioner]

The intro is always funny 😂

[@nathanharper5670]

Zhang can try lots of different styles because she's very athletic - lots of fast-twitch muscle fiber that she was lucky enough to get from her parents. If you're less athletic than Zhang - which I assume most people are - then you're probably doing well to get good at a few things you can do at the highest level. Credit to Zhang for working her ass off despite her athleticism - that's what made Valentina and Aldo and Volko generational talents - the willingness to learn good technique and not simply rely on their athleticism.

[@JordyS672]

Joanna and Rose will be remembered as all time greats regarded for skill. Zhang is just a place holder champion who will get embarrassed by Suarez because she only has physicality and is not a smart fighter.

[@jackslack7786]

Rose guy, have you considered using your powers for good?

[@jadedtermite2513]

Is not a ''smart'' fighter 😂

[@JordyS672]

@@jackslack7786 have you considered that she calls herself the wmma goat post fight while not even being the best in her division

[@JordyS672]

@@jackslack7786 and not just her, her weird fanbase of women pretend to be inspired by her and her male fanbase act like she's unbeatable even though she's been exposed by rose

[@tippyperez]

Even if she does lose to Suarez, it still isnt worse than losing to Karolina and Carla not once but TWICE 😉

[@BlaineHenryTFL]

I feel like boxing is in a good place. Better fights are being made. Idk if it’s a shift in the paradigm or if the culmination of a decade of buildup is paying off at the same time.

[@ColtYohn]

Yes ❤

[@irockuroll60]

Bud Crawford is a hell of switcher. I was really hoping this was on Max…by far, my favorite fighter. Went to Holloway v Poirier 2. Thought max was gonna have it in the bag until he ate that nasty knee (in the 4th I believe).

[@bbguy17]

I blame Volk for Max not switching as much anymore. Either he or Eugene Bareman said after their first fight that the plan was to leg kick Max to force him to switch stances because he’s easier to hit southpaw and they thought they could then finish him from there. Max barely switched at all after that until the Allen fight and a few moments ve Kattar

[@boogalo781]

Was Gegard good? Sure. Was he fun? No

[@bongerman42069]

Wilder vs Francis would be great but I doubt Wilder would do it unless he loses his next one

[@BlimeyOreiley]

Bank holiday, bless.

[@olasarcasm]

18:30 dude ONE is going down the drain. a year or two ago when they did their ONE X event with Stamp and iirc Angela Lee that was fucking sick but since then its gone downhill with an incredible pace

[@saloonboone]

Chatri realized he can pay Thai’s peanuts and be the most popular Muay Thai promoter rather than trying to compete in MMA and Kickboxing

[@philthh]

How do you feel about switching hands when jacking your slack?

[@JulesBrunoJjBaggy]

yay!

[@Dzingzing]

how do i get into watching boxing? as a newbie it's so convoluted and i have no idea where to start

[@benjaminj.7897]

Watch the fights that Slacky recommends. That was a good place to start, for me.

[@giancarlofermin5719]

zhang vs holloway when

[@horrifyinggelatinousblob]

If every female fighter took fighting as seriously as Zhang then WMMA would be a major draw component. Most WMMA fights just aren't interesting in paper or on the screen. Much respect to her for always going hard and trying to dominate, not point fighting or boring clinch hugging.

[@Confusedcious]

You do remember that there's a UFC PPV event this weekend that we're waiting to get your thoughts on don't you?

[@AcidSalamander7331]

Chinese Tekkers sweeping the nation

[@JordyS672]

Max Holloway, yeah he's great, great at losing to Volkanovski 3 times

[@MarioAbbott-sm3cz]

Zhang fanboys aren't ready to deal with the fact that she has a 50% takedown defense and will fall over and get beaten up by Tatiana Suarez. People will say she's a warroir and won't tap so shes going to sleep. #andnew

[@panperdu8229]

Zhang and Holloway have the weirdest fanbase

[@jadenbanal1539]

Zhang just lost twice to Rose. This is a true fact. UFC gave her the title shot because UFC needs a Chinese champ. So unfair for Rose who just performed a bad fight because of her trainer/s. I will keep rooting for her opponent's because she is an entitled punk

[@travelmind5487]

Oi oi

[@rodbtw]

6:12 16:51

[@DavisDean-ty9io]

115 is a bad division and people out here acting like Zhang is GSP. The hyperbole is getting out of hand by her weird fanbase

[@jadedtermite2513]

''Bad division'' lmao.

[@ramirojones-ob9lb]

Zhang isn't that great, all her wins were washed or were mediocre. Really wanted Yan Xiaonan to prove that she's the better chinese fighter because of her clean striking but the judges favored control over damage.

[@jadedtermite2513]

Yes, famously good Yan who almost arm bared herself 😂

[@JordyS672]

Zhang will lose to Suarez

[@tippyperez]

And rose lost to carla...twice lol

[@jadenbanal1539]

These pseudo analysts are hilarious Zhang couldn't beat Rose. Yeah,it's easy to bulk up when Zhang is sitting on Paulo Costas "juice" all year round. Zhang did not even deserve a title shot against Esparza, she is 1-2 in her last 3.Are you kidding me????

[@jackslack7786]

Fam you spend all day here switching accounts. We're basically mates.