Yes and for many people experiencing what I've been told is an adrenaline dump, happens pretty often right up until they experience first contact. Meaning being hit or feeling an opponents strength in a tie up. Many feel this and doubt or give up on themselves.Whenever I've rolled with pros though they're usually excellent grapplers who are good everywhere. Just seems they can't do it when the stakes are high or it's probably difficult to do it to guys of a similar standard or something.
Fuck off lol.
Scott Smith vs Pete Sell
it's actually worse, lots of dudes will consciously STOP doing something that is working. think of how many MMA fights you watched where one guy rocks the other dude and immediately clinches him against the fence or shoots a takedown.
As much as a genius Jon is leading into fights with his initial gameplans for opponents, such as that headkick he had planned for DC or attemtping the flying knee to start against Shogun, it's always cool to see him and his team's in cage adjustments.Jones' spinning elbow on Gus in rd4 (I think it was). Until that moment, Gus was winning the fight
People bitch about crowds, but they're pretty good for noticing something significant.Or they'll land a few body shots in the first round that are clearly affecting the guy and decide, "Eh, I'd rather headhunt" and never go for the body again.
Khabib was as surprised as anybody landing that KD. That's why he does the backstep little chicken dance when it happens which gives Conor time to get back to his feet and counter Khabib's bullrush with a flush flying knee.
You guys always conveniently cut off the sequence cause like the rest of the fight Conor won the standup. Which isn't a knock against Khabib, but for some reason you think it is.
that was the adjustment....Given what the fight is famous for, I'm only familiar with the last few seconds of the fight. What adjustments did Scott Smith make?
Okay but it's still insane to claim Khabib won the standup in a fight he lost the standup in apart from 1 surprising KD that surprised him just as much as anybody. You can literally see he throws it and was already backing off because he was expecting to get countered. Then actually does get countered when he overzealously rushed in thinking Conor was more hurt than he was cause yeah, Conor's still the better striker. Which is why Khabib eventually shoots and why the 2nd round was spent on the ground. It was his TD, not KD, that led to Khabib winning it 10-8.There was only one round that spent any decent amount of time on the feet. Conor won it sure, but didn't have any big moments and he didn't hurt Khabib. That was the most surprising part. Stylistically he just didnt have anything for Khabib.
Okay but it's still insane to claim Khabib won the standup in a fight he lost the standup in apart from 1 surprising KD that surprised him just as much as anybody. You can literally see he throws it and was already backing off because he was expecting to get countered. Then actually does get countered when he overzealously rushed in thinking Conor was more hurt than he was cause yeah, Conor's still the better striker. Which is why Khabib eventually shoots and why the 2nd round was spent on the ground. It was his TD, not KD, that led to Khabib winning it 10-8.
You might as well make the equally stupid statement like saying Conor won the grappling because he equally did surprising stuff like defending passes, subs, and escaping out from underneath Khabib, including full mount, multiple times. People were pretty equally shocked that Conor did so well defensively against Khabib on the ground.
Just because they each did surprisingly well in certain moments in each other's domain doesn't change that Conor's the better striker and Khabib's the better grappler. We knew that before the fight, and we knew it afterwards. Turns out Khabib just had the stronger grappling to actually win. It is what it is.
What a dumb post lolThe problem with this is that DC had an EXTENSIVE history of weakness to body shots, that had been known for years before the Stipe fight. Jones even called him out on it.
So I have a hard time with crediting Stipe here seeing as he should've been doing it all along. And in the first fight. It took two fights before he realized it? That's pretty dumb actually.
Also he KO'd him with punches to the head, not a bodyshot so it's kinda overblown. They slowed DC down and opened him up to the shot that hurt him sure, but Stipe also could've landed that regardless and DC slows down in champion rounds anyways.
What's dumb is taking 5 rounds and 2 fights to notice that DC has a weakness to body shots.What a dumb post lol