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This has been my dream fight for a while. Sooo many beautiful kicks...
Learn how to wrestle then.
Thats not my point but I wholeheartedly agree.Eddie was doing no damage with his "wrestling". He shut down Pettis' offense while providing none of his own; basically preventing any sort of fight from taking place.
It was a terrible fight. If everyone was satisfied to stall like that there'd be no money in MMA and it sure as he'll wouldn't be on television.
He always has his his back against the fence? So you've watched two Pettis fights, good to know.
I doubt Barboza does that. Mark Henry coached Alvarez verses Pettis, he is also Barbozas coach. I think he's seen enough footage of Pettis in two straight camps that he will come up with a striking style game plan.If Barbosa does anything other than mix up striking with wrestling, put the pressure and take Petit's down then his coach needs to be fired.. Blueprint to beat Pettis is out there. Just take the path of least resistance, Barbosa needs a win.
Spot on, dude. Showtime spends way too much energy staying upright as opposed to playing guard while his opponent is dry and vulnerable to submissions.Pettis needs to stop working on his TDD so much, imo. It was much better in the alvarez fight, but it actually hurt him more because it slowed the fight down too much.'
I feel like he was better off just pulling guard and working from his guard then staying pushed against the fence for 15 minutes.
"Barboza won't exploit my glaring wrestling weakness."
Whiner
Definitely, this one is a striking fans dream, should be a 5 rounder.This has been my dream fight for a while. Sooo many beautiful kicks...
and the times they were in the middle and striking.. Pettis was just staring at him 99% of the time and throwing nothing. 3 minutes of round 2 there was no wrestling at all and Pettis was doing nothing.
You mean by negating all their movement and offense because your opponent has the inability to move his feet? It's quite lovelyPlease tell me about the amazing sport of wrestling in which you win fights by holding a standing opponent and stalling is never broken up or punished.
The clinch is a part of wrestling/grappling and his holes got exploited. No two ways about it really.Alvarez didn't exploit anything, anthony barely touched the ground. he just walled and stalled him (it was still anthony's fault because he focused too much on staying standing though)
The clinch is a part of wrestling/grappling and his holes got exploited. No two ways about it really.
Whatever man, I'm not getting into semantics with you. You can tell yourself whatever you want about why Anthony lost that fight. Anyone with functioning eyes can see what his weakness is.In wrestling, what alvarez did would not be very useful since there would be no cage. pushing somebody into a cage isn't wrestling. His hole is that he's not strong enough for the division at the end of the day. his TDD was on point.
Whatever man, I'm not getting into semantics with you. You can tell yourself whatever you want about why Anthony lost that fight. Anyone with functioning eyes can see what his weakness is.