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Full credit goes to a French youtuber named Chris Genachte. He made a much more thorough study of this fight, I'm simply re-interpretting certain parts of it for the non French speaking fans and re-giffing segments for sherdog. His channel can be found here for french speakers:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHNnRsbd2MXWxeaJ_GPhtrQ
The Problem:
If anyone knows dustin poirier, they know he throws his left cross from southpaw and shifts into orthodox to land his right cross. He does this very, very often and he's landed it on most of his opponents. Examples:
Anyone who is fighting poirier needs to have some kind of answer for this technique from poirier.
Charles's solutions:
The main answer from oliveira was obviously pressure, as poirier needs space to shift. Oliveira is pressuring and crushing the space from the opening bell. Within the first 5 seconds of the round, Dustin tries his shift combo:
Ten seconds later, Dustin tries this shifting combo yet again:
It's 15 seconds into the fight now and Charles has shown two answers to one of dustin's signature attacks.
45 seconds later, Dustin tries it yet again:
The next time Dustin tries this shifting combo, he's aware that Charles is going to search for the single collar tie after the first left cross, so after throwing his left cross, you'll notice Dustin duck under charles' attempt for the single collar tie:
but unfortunately for dustin charles gets a frame:
Then after the frame he knees dustin in the body yet again. Here's the full gif:
At this point, Charles knows that dustin will throw the left cross, try to duck to avoid the single collar tie while shifting into the right cross. Charles's answer to this is to upper cut while dustin ducks:
I just thought this was cool, so I shared.
@KID Yamamoto @PokerandMMA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHNnRsbd2MXWxeaJ_GPhtrQ
The Problem:
If anyone knows dustin poirier, they know he throws his left cross from southpaw and shifts into orthodox to land his right cross. He does this very, very often and he's landed it on most of his opponents. Examples:
Anyone who is fighting poirier needs to have some kind of answer for this technique from poirier.
Charles's solutions:
The main answer from oliveira was obviously pressure, as poirier needs space to shift. Oliveira is pressuring and crushing the space from the opening bell. Within the first 5 seconds of the round, Dustin tries his shift combo:
- Oliveira's first response above is a risky one, but it worked: dustin fires his left cross, shifts, but right before he gets to fire his right, charles hits him with a left hook then pulls away from dustin's right. I slowed the gif down, so hopefully it's easier to notice.
Ten seconds later, Dustin tries this shifting combo yet again:
- This time Charles pulls back, waits for dustin's second cross and simultaneously counters it with a right of his own.
It's 15 seconds into the fight now and Charles has shown two answers to one of dustin's signature attacks.
45 seconds later, Dustin tries it yet again:
- Dustin throws the left cross, Charles knows that dustin is going to try to shift into orthodox, so Charles grabs the single collar tie for the clinch and crashes the distance, in the clinch he lands a knee that makes dustin disengage.
The next time Dustin tries this shifting combo, he's aware that Charles is going to search for the single collar tie after the first left cross, so after throwing his left cross, you'll notice Dustin duck under charles' attempt for the single collar tie:
but unfortunately for dustin charles gets a frame:
Then after the frame he knees dustin in the body yet again. Here's the full gif:
At this point, Charles knows that dustin will throw the left cross, try to duck to avoid the single collar tie while shifting into the right cross. Charles's answer to this is to upper cut while dustin ducks:
I just thought this was cool, so I shared.
@KID Yamamoto @PokerandMMA
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