What happened to all of Aldo’s kicks?

[KB Warrior]

Is there any explanation for abandoning a high frequency kicking strategy that was so successful for him earlier in his career? I can’t recall a fighter with such an effective weapon who then fails to use it to this degree.

 

[jpak]

I know his team said he had an injury, maybe it's been a lingering issue.

 

[RawkyMarciano]

Thurteen saykonds.

 

[Deleted member 519031]

His fight is still traveling through the air, after being starched out of him

 

[ShinyaAokiFan]

I think part of it was he was aware that he didn’t have a great gas tank and fought more conservative against the best because he would be vulnerable if he didn’t put them away in the earlier rounds.

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

He thinks he's a boxer now.

 

[Fight Professor]

Those kicks are far less effective against taller, rangier strikers than short wrestlers and take up a lot of energy.

 

[Chain Saw]

I think he has a knee and back injury.

Both of those will make your kicks much weaker and much harder to throw.

 

[Chain Saw]

Those kicks are far less effective against taller, rangier strikers than short wrestlers and take up a lot of energy.

Ummm kicks are actually much more dangerous to throw against a wrestler because they can catch them and take you down.

Aldo most likely has a back injury which doesn't allow him to put the same amount of torque in his kicks.

 

[Fight Professor]

Ummm kicks are actually much more dangerous to throw against a wrestler because they can catch them and take you down.

Aldo most likely has a back injury which doesn't allow him to put the same amount of torque in his kicks.

Also has one of the best takedown defences in the UFC.

 

[Megatronlee]

You guys just aren’t paying attention, he can’t kick becusse he was getting smashed in the face every time he tried

 

[RawkyMarciano]

Megan baby. Why do I love you so much?

You guys just aren’t paying attention, he can’t kick becusse he was getting smashed in the face every time he tried

 

[bigconan]

The only explanation that makes since is an injury. It would explain why he hasn't publicly addressed the issue and why he's still said pre-fight the last couple of fights that he's going back to his kicking game - only to not throw any kicks in the fight.

Whether it be a past injury to his shin/foot or maybe a knee/hip issue, it makes since to not publicly speak about it because why give your opponents more information than you have to. Much like a wrestler saying pre-fight that they're looking for the KO and are going to stand and bang, only to shoot for the TD within the first 30 seconds.

Kicking Aldo was the best Aldo. Aldo at his best is the FW GOAT.

Hopefully he can go back to at least throwing some kicks. Maybe not like in the old days, but at least enough to have a more diverse attack than his current straight up boxing approach.

Didn't aldo try some leg kicks early on in his 2nd fight with max? I thought he did...only to abandon them, when max kept pressuring him...I think it's an energy thing...definitely...no lingering injury is going to last that long...what sort of injury is going to prevent leg kicks? He moves just fine...so it's not a knee injury...perhaps a shin injury, where he just can't kick with it anymore...but that sort of injury wouldn't last this long...he's gone the last few years without throwing many kicks...

I think just boxing takes much less out of him...so he doesn't gas as fast. remember, this is post usada and no longer using iv to recover....

 

[Fatback96]

Kicks take a lot of energy. Also the game has changed, and people counter kicks much better these days.

 

[g*r*b]

Gone where the woodbine twineth and the whangdoodle mourneth for his firstborn.

 

[LukeSkyrocker]

Thurteen saykonds.

TIRteen sayconds

 

[Organic Damage]

They ran off in the direction his chin went?

 

[DjHnd]

Still has PTSD from the time he broke his foot kicking KZ