Hunt is so deceptive with his pace

[RoninJin]

Seriously every time I watched Hunt fighting in the later rounds, he would appeared slow and tired. He kind of lure you in, then boom he goes 110mph on you with his strikes and don back to being slowed and tired again. Guys like Struve, Bigfoot, and Rothwell had a hard time adjusting to him.

During the Nelson fight, Brian Stann mention how when fighters got gotten used to Hunt, he switches styles in you, thus referencing Hunt deceptive pace. Awesome

 

[bandicoot]

He throws hooks and uppercuts in his sleep.

 

[Limbo Pete]

It's really cool to watch

 

[OverhandLoop]

He will throw a counter halfway through rolling from a punch too, which is fucking hard to pick up on. And he finds great angles with his punches.

 

[MTT]

He is the definition of composure. It helps to know you have a granite chin.

 

[redbrownhaze]

Hunt it is a freaking specimen

So explosive for a heavy guy

Most big fighters can't throw power when they get tired but hunt still has explosion and his timing seems to get better

Another walk off ko

 

[That209]

His punches look scary as fuck.

The way he has that snap with his punches.. I couldn't imagine taking one of those. I'd probably be put in a coma if that guy landed a glancing shot, hell, even if he missed, the air that goes by my head would probably put me to bed. That guy could probably punch a wall and the shockwave would put down an entire suburban area.

He isn't just all raw power either, he clearly is just one of those guys who can just hit hard, they naturally just have that power, but his technique is so damn good and that makes him 100x more dangerous, unlike Roy Nelson. Roy is mostly just a guy with serious raw power, whereas Hunt is a guy that clearly has that natural born raw power as well as great technique, that snap in his punches.. all technique.

To me, it looks like even when Hunt does get very tired, he still throws his punches just as hard and just as quick. He'll get tired, but he'll still try to fight at the same pace. He doesn't really get all zombie-like, like so many other fighters, like Chris Leben or BJ Penn for example.

I love the way he sets up his strikes, too, especially in his fight against Stefan Struve. I remember he was simply just tapping Struve's arms, then a little tiny punch to the body, just to create an opening and as soon as Struve left a little opening, Hunt fired a fucking haymaker at him.

You don't really see many MMA fighters create openings like that. You usually only see this kind of thing in Boxing. The only other fighter I've seen do this a bunch of times was Nick Diaz. They're pretty much just feints, his opponent will put their arms up to block their face and Nick (or some other fighters) will just tap your arms with a couple little punches, or they'll tap the arms a few times and then do one or two to the body and as soon as his opponent drops their hands just a little bit, BOOM, a random power punch to the head.

It's actually pretty fun to watch. The time Hunt did that to Struve is still fresh in my memory, I love seeing fighters mix it up like that, creating little openings like that.

Hunt is a scary dude.

 

[MilesAbove]

He's just has a masterful awareness of punches when he's on his game. To be fair, Nelson has a very linear style. But that doesn't take much away from the fact that he's massively dangerous and Hunt did a great job with his angles. And I think that allows him to conserve energy early and keep the pace consistent later.

I had called this fight Overhand vs Uppercut. This time.... uppercut won.

 

[dfoster]

yeah, just like tennis or anything else, switching pace will mess them up

 

[frederick]

He's just has a masterful awareness of punches when he's on his game. To be fair, Nelson has a very linear style. But that doesn't take much away from the fact that he's massively dangerous and Hunt did a great job with his angles. And I think that allows him to conserve energy early and keep the pace consistent later.

I had called this fight Overhand vs Uppercut. This time.... uppercut won.

It seemed to me that Hunt did eat a couple of solid shots from Nelson but rolled away from them just enough. I'd like to see gifs of these.

 

[joeyjoejoe]

The term K-1 striking gets jokingly thrown around a lot, Hunt actually has k-1 level striking. His technique is awesome couple that with the fact that he's some kinda different breed of human and it makes for an awesome fighter.

 

[RoninJin]

I had called this fight Overhand vs Uppercut. This time.... uppercut won.

So I guess we are 1-1 with overland vs uppercut thrown at the same time

Hunt/Nelson, Chuck/Rashad

 

[MilesAbove]

It seemed to me that Hunt did eat a couple of solid shots from Nelson but rolled away from them just enough. I'd like to see gifs of these.

I would to. We've seen Ando do the same thing. Good strikers tend to roll just enough. And when your opponent doesn't throw combos, and instead relies on single-punch power, rolling and proper angles are your best friend.

And that's exactly why I bet Hunt U-3 Rounds. But that's just post-hoc gloating... because I felt it was 50/50 going in he'd even win, let alone actually tag Nelson under 3

 

[Shogun_]

The man won the K-1 Grand Prix. Why is everyone acting so surprised that he's a good striker? lol

 

[MilesAbove]

So I guess we are 1-1 with overland vs uppercut thrown at the same time

Hunt/Nelson, Chuck/Rashad

Somewhere in Vegas someone is considering how to turn that into a predictive number for gambling, lol.

 

[BruceLeeOnTRT]

So I guess we are 1-1 with overland vs uppercut thrown at the same time

Hunt/Nelson, Chuck/Rashad

Rashad ko'd chuck with a hook though.

 

[MilesAbove]

Rashad ko'd chuck with a hook though.

eeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm going to go with overhand on this one.

It definitely isn't the straightest overhand... but it's pretty clear he's torquing in the overhand motion.

 

[RoninJin]

Rashad ko'd chuck with a hook though.

Shit was definitely overhand brah

 

[BruceLeeOnTRT]

eeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm going to go with overhand on this one.

It definitely isn't the straightest overhand... but it's pretty clear he's torquing in the overhand motion.

Ya youre right. The replay cam with rashad on the right shows the torque really well. I got it mixed up with the rampage ko

 

[RoninJin]

The man won the K-1 Grand Prix. Why is everyone acting so surprised that he's a good striker? lol

Because there's another k-1 prix champ that's not doing so well right now # hint hint