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Emanuel Newton blames loss to Phil Davis on pre-fight...activities
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Everyone's different. What bolsters some people cripples others. Nate Marquardt's said he has sex the night before a fight, but other people refrain from sex before a fight. There was also that episode of Metalocalpyse where they were all in a submarine and couldn't masturbate, so they spent all their time working out to relieve the stress.
His fighting choices during the fight-- forgetting about his constant-feinting, stance-switching, kick-level variety, and movement-heavy style in favor of fighting out of southpaw stance and throwing single low-roundhouse kicks off the lead leg-- affected the outcome more than other things did, but the mental aspect of the fight can't be ignored. Everyone's had something happen before something important that messes up their mental state, leading to unspectacular results. Whether it's conventionally considered good or bad, the end result is it affects your mind, and it can hinder you. We've all had that happen to us, and if you haven't, you will. You can call it an excuse if you want, but it's the truth: things happen that do have an affect on us, which do affect outcomes.
Maybe he really puts everything he has into his thrust, too, so his hips literally were ruined before the fight.
Popping a rib in the middle of a fight's a real bad hindrance, though. Newton's always had a real scrappy bottom game, and it's not like popping a rib wouldn't have an effect on his ability to escape.
His fighting choices during the fight-- forgetting about his constant-feinting, stance-switching, kick-level variety, and movement-heavy style in favor of fighting out of southpaw stance and throwing single low-roundhouse kicks off the lead leg-- affected the outcome more than other things did, but the mental aspect of the fight can't be ignored. Everyone's had something happen before something important that messes up their mental state, leading to unspectacular results. Whether it's conventionally considered good or bad, the end result is it affects your mind, and it can hinder you. We've all had that happen to us, and if you haven't, you will. You can call it an excuse if you want, but it's the truth: things happen that do have an affect on us, which do affect outcomes.
Maybe he really puts everything he has into his thrust, too, so his hips literally were ruined before the fight.
Popping a rib in the middle of a fight's a real bad hindrance, though. Newton's always had a real scrappy bottom game, and it's not like popping a rib wouldn't have an effect on his ability to escape.
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Newton should drop to 185 he'd at the least getting a title shot maybe win
How would Carvalho vs Newton go for the MW belt?
How would Carvalho vs Newton go for the MW belt?
