Or at least at the championship level. Before each of his loss, woodley talked on and on about how he is going to go forward and knock the guy out but once punch and he freezes and starts backing off. I don't know wtf happened in the Vincent fight that made him actually throw but aside from that, dude crumbles. What do you attribute this to? Lack of confidence in chin and cardio? Afraid to lose? General mental weakness?
I made a similar topic earlier but it got merged with the mega thread for Jake paul. I'm just super curious and want to hear opinions. You rarely see someone this mentality at the championship level.
I wouldn't say that he is weak at all.
And I would venture to say that this is a lot more common than you notice.
Fighters (especially those who get into an unbeaten strike and becomes champion) go into a mindset that they can't lose.
It is the same swag Silva, Jon or Fedor had during their run.
But a loss can break that swag, and cause the fighter to not to trust in himself as much.
So the strikes they would throw that would KO their opponents... they hold back. Not always they pull back, they could simply hesitate and the other fighter would capitalize and here's another loss... more doubts, more hesitation, etc.
It happened to a lot of fighters, if you stop to take a look.
That's why when a fighter already lost some fights, they shrug it off and move onto the next challenge.
the hesitation though... that's not being mentally weak. At least I don't see it that way.
in Tyrone's case, I think he got gun-shy. He holds on for too long.
and with each loss, he goes deeper into that hole.
