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I have never seen Barao have 'the tools' to beat Dillashaw. Matter of factly, he's never FOUGHT anyone who used that strategy against him.
You act like all Barao needed was to step in with his jab and throw some teeps. You're actively ignoring the fact that Dillashaw was wide stepping all of Barao's linear attacks. Hell, it looked like TJ game planned to avoid all straight attacks and to keep moving circularly.
What Barao needed to do was to a) start throwing more hooks, especially with his lead hand, to try and deter TJ from constantly jumping in and b) stop moving straight forward and straight back, to actually try and pivot or side step whenever TJ came in.
Which, BTW, is NOT in Barao's tool bag.
Step in jab? I mean, really?
I was about to say something similar to this myself.
Barao has never had great defensive skills. He struggles in dealing with straight punches aswell. As the fight went on Barao got desperate just sticking his fingers out hoping to stop Dillashaw's advance something TJ said he planned for in camp something Barao has a habit of doing, and TJ made him pay for it. Something like that really shows you how read Dillashaw was on Barao.
You are greatly underestimating TJ if you think Barao throwing some teeps would have embarrassed him especially when Dillashaw still took round 2. Infact TJ would probably have started countering him from badly timed teeps, and jabs too due to his angles. Dillashaw certainly made Barao pay for a missed front kick something you rarely see punished in MMA.
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