The showboating was troubling Weidman throughout the fight to the point where Weidman started to gas out. Remember Weidman said it himself the showboating was frustrating him. Sherdog is going to shit itself if Weidman loses on the 28th.
You'll see some gifs of Anderson troubling Weidman more on the 28th. stay tuned.
No the showboating baited Weidman into striking with Anderson, which everyone thought was a mistake, but it never troubled Chris. You are making things up.
Here are more 'biased' gifs for you to demonstrate who in fact Chris dealt wll with Anderson's showboating while not getting drawn in and off balance while landing his big shots, and how Chris frustrated and used his own showboating to frustrate and beat up Anderson.
This is from another thread I posted in.
His actions were specifically different than anything we've seen and exceptional.
Anderson has made a career out of baiting guys into his game. He drops his hands and challenges their pride and they become completely ineffectual and run at him, giving him exactly what he wants. Or they get frustrated and quit mentally.
Weidman remained focused in the face of taunting and did not bite and run at Anderson and instead kept to his game plan of picking HIS SPOTS instead of chasing Anderson's bait and openings. He continued to measure Anderson and to bait him back which no one has ever done.
That was step one of Anderson's demise.
Weidman then went a step further as his confidence grew and he began to taunt Silva by dropping his hands and offering up his head for free punches like Nick Diaz taunts his opponents. This threw Anderson as no one had done that to him before and it made Anderson miss in his attempts to him.
that was step two of Anderson's demise.
Which lead to this statement by Anderson after the fight.
"After he lost, though, (Anderson) admitted that he struggled, and that he couldn't hit Weidman."
And Weidman was landing shots all through the fight even as Anderson missed above and was pretending Weidman was not hitting and upping his clowing.
Anderson getting tagged and realizing he was struggling to hit a hands down taunting Chris was step 3 of his demise.
the big shots landed were the finale.
enter KTFO gif which ends the fight.
So yes, Weidman did's lots special and unique as no one had done those things to Anderson in his UFC run. No one had come close.
I think you meant to say 'what I am trying to and need to convince myself of".