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You are right. It's a hell of a lot easier for us to have a bird's eye view and not feel the pressure the fighters are under, and all the things that Come with it. Also, really good examples above.You're right and the "default" button, but that is such a hardwired thing that it's extremely hard to stop doing.
You work hard enough to create muscle memory so that in the moments of the fight you react without thinking.
It takes thousands of hours to create that.
Like you said she has had such great success as of late with the clinch, takedown and beat their faces in.
Talia has great athletic abilities but she didn't do much on top except get punched and elbowed a lot.
When she had Valentina's back she was in her best position but still couldn't create much damage.
Overall it was a good showing for Talia, and she'll be fine at the end of the day.
Glover has that same thing happening with him, where the success of a way of fighting can be a detrimental thing to the progress of the fight.
Dan Henderson fell in love with his KO power and that got in his way a few times.
Rampage too had that problem.
When you have a few tolls in your garage that you use all the time, it becomes more difficult to access the other tools when you need them the most.
You can normally fix a flat tire with a lug wrench but sometimes a pipe wrench is need for one reason or another.
It's the same with fighting in my eyes.
It's frustrating as a fan but we're not standing on the other side of the cage from our favorite fighters opponent sir.
If we see it while watching then we have to believe they will see it when they watch it.
In the examples of glover and shev, I've seen many other fighters do that. I think it's probably something that could sometimes go overlooked from the fighters perspective. It's kinda of like us sitting in a waiting room checking our phone with out even really knowing we are doing it. Or when we are driving down the road and 5 min go by and we realize we don't even recall what or who we've passed, like we have been on auto-pilot. And that's prob because we drive multiple hours a week, similar to how ufc fighters train hours on end.
And after watching that card, it's evident to me that there is something larger at play that results in fighters continuing down a path they prob shouldn't take. I know they are not dumb, and I know they know a lot more about fighting than I do.
I think an avenue for coaches to exploit is how to make fighters more adaptable in certain situations. I would guess that probably the training aspect and routines is where you make those changes.
Anyways... just my perspective on this. Something that I thought out an hour after the fights while trying to go to sleep.