Thanks, good points. My techical analysis is very crude, but I try to throw my opinions around to get feedback. I often bet more momentum and open potential than the known technical aspects. I love gambling on this kind of asymmetric fights with one dude possibly on decline and the other possibly developing fast.
Before his UFC debut Enkamp had been training for example with Machida, but now he’s been at Phuket Top Team. It’s been almost a year. Fight with Taleb was a good measuring stick for him to figure out his weaknesses at this level of competition. Taleb hit him with low kicks pretty easy, so I’d be surprised if he has not worked on that. He also said, that he’s been building more muscle mass. I hope that translates to ko power too, but should help wrestling at least. Enkamp has not fought a leftie before in mma, but he’s probably faced plenty of them in karate. That should help a bit.
I actually wondered, if cheek counts as getting hit on temple and if that affects ones equilibrium. But Taleb did hit him also really hard on the jaw, so he did got fucked both ways and seemed disoriented for a while if I remember correctly. I think smart fighters take often six months off after loss like that. Sure I think he want to fight at home, but it does not make it smart. Then again, maybe Roberts knows better, and it was not that bad ko.
I thought Nash took some hard shots early, was pretty nervous and tence, maybe wasted energy and got winded pretty soon. Maybe Enkamp can mix things better and fight smarter. He was shooting desperately late in Taleb fight, but I think he was just out of gas for taking a last minute booking. I thought taking much stronger Taleb down against the cage in the first round was pretty impressive.
for example..first everybody was oh oh Marshman is dog +300 and after that everyone was like oh oh Brad is +300 so wtf ? . I like to bet on winners, thats what matters. You can throw out your dog money if your dog loses.
