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Pettis is the legitimate greatest fighter to ever walk the face of the planet. He won a fight yesterday
Amazing when combined with proper boxing training from the start though.No, Pettis was getting pieced up. The leg kicks appeared to have little to no effect on Wonderboy.
Still, it highlights that need to put your opponent away as soon as possible. If you let them hang around, any errant punch can end the fight. Striking is like that. It's why grappling is more reliable, and less prone to chance. Any idiot can throw a punch, and end your night no matter how good you are at striking.
It also highlights the importance of boxing over kickboxing. Wonderboy left his hands down, like Machida, and like Chuck and he paid for it. Karate influenced kickboxing is not good at defense, and it's punches are not powerful. Defense is crucial when striking, and it's why Karate is not a reliable striking style, and few can make it work. It requires exceptional reflexes, but leaves its user wide open for standard boxing counters.
Those kicks hurt though. Silly to think they had no effect on him.No, Pettis was getting pieced up. The leg kicks appeared to have little to no effect on Wonderboy.
Still, it highlights that need to put your opponent away as soon as possible. If you let them hang around, any errant punch can end the fight. Striking is like that. It's why grappling is more reliable, and less prone to chance. Any idiot can throw a punch, and end your night no matter how good you are at striking.
It also highlights the importance of boxing over kickboxing. Wonderboy left his hands down, like Machida, and like Chuck and he paid for it. Karate influenced kickboxing is not good at defense, and it's punches are not powerful. Defense is crucial when striking, and it's why Karate is not a reliable striking style, and few can make it work. It requires exceptional reflexes, but leaves its user wide open for standard boxing counters.
It gets so bad that you know exactly what will be said on this forum before you even get to it. People will borrow lines straight from Rogan in their analysis that it could be copyrighted lol.goes to show how much the average fan Is influenced by the commentary and doesn't really think for themselves aswell
This difference in head strikes was pretty vast before the KO.
20-10 leg kicks compared to 28-5 (including the finishing punches).So was the difference in leg kicks.
wonderboy was winning every second of the fight except the last two