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The threat of the takedown is a beautiful thing. It sounded like leading up to this fight Barao had a ton of confidence in his stand up skills and under estimated TJ on the feet.
I think TS is abandoning this thread so no point to continue posting, but was just rewatching round 2, most of the success that Barao had in that round with his front kick and jab was when TJ was in orthodox. TJ fought about the first two minutes in Orthodox and he got tagged a few times. But he so seamlessly switched to Southpaw (a lot of times from that Cruz-like stutter step, I guess that is its purpose) and a lot of times I don't think Barao noticed--- I sure as hell had trouble following, so I am sure Barao was totally lost. Barao kept jabbing and his teeps as if he was fighting an Orthodox fighter, and all TJ had to do was take a slight step out and forward to the right and he was past the kick/punch and on an angle to do damage.
Really, when people say TJ was just more 'dynamic' they aren't kidding. He really threw Barao off with everything he did, and Barao just continued to fight like he was fighting a Faber, a primarily linear fighter.