I guess twice is a few? Blaydes hit him less than 10 times in both fights combined, and if the stats were more accurate, probably just 5. Blayde's striking accuracy was in the 40% mark overall. I mean, that quote statement alone sentence kinda reveals the trolling and/or retardation of this whole thread.
Did Tuivasa have Gane in trouble before? I seem to remember that. Gane peppers people and isn't unhittable. And he's got the grappling defensive IQ of a gnat. It'd really take some poor decision making on Tom's part to make the mistakes you're assuming
Just went ahead and reviewed both fights in slow-mo, just to break this down.
First fight for Curtis:
-One punch landed to Tom's chest as Tom jumped in
-The swinging follow up left instead landed in Tom's armpit and amounted to a push
-One leg kick that was checked by Tom
-Missed on two 1-2's
-Maybe one right hand either grazing the forehead or missed completely
-One jab to the jaw as Tom was backing up, where his knee blew out when he set down on it. The impact was less important that the force here, because it was the push back that helped cause the knee injury
Literally a single strike with good effect
Second fight for Curtis:
-Misses on two 1-2's
-Misses a jab
-Throws another 1-2, lands good on the jab but misses the right as he was trying to evade Tom's 1-2.
-Lands a short left as Tom chases him down
-Second left hand misses as Tom ducks under and takes Curtis to the cage
-If you want to count Curtis kneeing Tom's knee during the wall-n-stall, be my guest.
-Two jab feints, then another 1-2 that only the jab lands, but the right misses.
-Follow-up overhand misses
-Misses a left hand and Tom puts him down and finishes him.
His 2 best shots were set-up jabs that missed the follow-up.
Even being as gracious as possible, counting punching someone in the chest, the arm pit, a checked kick, a graze at best that might actually have been another miss entirely, and a little knee to the knee while grinding against the fence, you can only give Curtis 9 out of 23 strikes, and only 4 of those had any measurable pop.
