Yea. Barbosa has a few at 155, but they were all more drawn out than what Gaethje has done.
Moraes, too. He landed about five kicks over the course of ~70 seconds, and Barajas was done.
He said after the fight he doesn't even practice his low kicks. Is that bullshit? I know he kicks hard and his technique looks okay to me but is it really possible he doesn't drill them at all? Does he just have Ricardo Arona genes for naturally hard low kicks?
That's probably bull. If you're a fighter how do you not drill kicks? I don't buy that. Maybe he doesn't focus specifically on them but he's definitely at least throwing them in practice. They probably do come natural to him though. Unless they come from a MT background, a lot of guys look incredibly awkward throwing leg kicks but then some it just seems to come natural. I think Gaethje is one of those. He throws damn near his entire body into those leg kicks. He torques his entire body into them, they generate so much power.
He trains them definitely, just probably doesn't focus on them; mix his natural power there with good timing and consistent placement, and he's got some tree-choppers going on.
