Conor gets a lot of flak for taking fights on short notice, his haters love it, he's doomed if he wins and doomed if he loses, they don't understand the disadvantages of last minute opponent changes can have on your performance.
Muscle memory, training for a specific fighter adjusts your body to respond and react in certain ways to certain environments.
Example: if your facing a wrestler, your going to invest more time into wrestling in your camp, now your not going to become an awesome wrestler putting an emphasis on wrestling, but what it will do is by putting yourself into situations that you will run in, and drilling those, will allow shorter reaction time, better technique, and better energy expenditure.
Now the positives that the opponent specific training gives, carries the exact negatives with an opponent change, meaning the reaction time will be longer, technique will be worse, and energy sufficiency will be off.
Basically you've spent months training your body for one thing, and nowe asking to do something else.
This is why Jon Jones said Chael was too dangerous as a short notice replacement for Hendo.
Why Werdum ducked Stipe.
This is also, in my opinion why GSP looked bad in his fight with Hendricks, because he wasn't prepared for Hendricks, and you can see it in the first round.
This is why very few fighters accept last minute opponent changes.
Muscle memory, training for a specific fighter adjusts your body to respond and react in certain ways to certain environments.
Example: if your facing a wrestler, your going to invest more time into wrestling in your camp, now your not going to become an awesome wrestler putting an emphasis on wrestling, but what it will do is by putting yourself into situations that you will run in, and drilling those, will allow shorter reaction time, better technique, and better energy expenditure.
Now the positives that the opponent specific training gives, carries the exact negatives with an opponent change, meaning the reaction time will be longer, technique will be worse, and energy sufficiency will be off.
Basically you've spent months training your body for one thing, and nowe asking to do something else.
This is why Jon Jones said Chael was too dangerous as a short notice replacement for Hendo.
Why Werdum ducked Stipe.
This is also, in my opinion why GSP looked bad in his fight with Hendricks, because he wasn't prepared for Hendricks, and you can see it in the first round.
This is why very few fighters accept last minute opponent changes.
