Why did Conor leave behind his free flowing karate stance?

[jeff7b9]

Eddie has slick footwork, fast hands, knees, & heart. Eddie KO’d a game Justin Gaethje. His body work set the blueprint for Poirier against Eddie.

Conor’s body kicks were money against Alvarez.

Eddie fought a terrible terrible fight against Conor.

Eddie got rocked too early and went into brawl mode and forgot ALL his technique.

Eddie with level changes, v steps and utilizing his dart punch could have given Conor some trouble.

Eddie standing straight in front of Conor with a reach and height disadvantage with no lateral movement and no variation in range/distance was target practice.

 

[Pierce 34]

Eddie has slick footwork, fast hands, knees, & heart. Eddie KO’d a game Justin Gaethje. His body work set the blueprint for Poirier against Eddie.

Conor’s body kicks were money against Alvarez.

Conor in the eddie fight was still worse than what conor was before Diaz 2.

Eddie beat gaethje was a good win but Gaethje was fighting stupid. Eddie is still on paper a easy matchup for Conor. Khabib wasn't

 

[Poatan Power]

Mostly weight class.

At 155/170 his kryptonite is too prevalent. Diaz was the perfect anecdote. Long, hard to knockout, taller, endless cardio.

 

[honzo]

In fairness I forget which opponent said it but one of the guys who faced both Floyd and Canelo said that they hit about the same.

Floyd was knocking fools out in his Prettyboy days but his hands got so fucked up he stopped and got comfortable just outboxing them.

Cotto or Mosley?

 

[Coconutwater]

Stopped fighting short guys in fw. Figured he needed extra power

I also think it's because he figured out he gasses more when he can't get his opponent to open-up. The karate stance worked back in the day because everyone just assumed he was Lyoto Machida with Ilia's hands, but that's not the case. He's just a southpaw with a really great slip-counter. He's been figured out.

 

[Frode Falch]

Nerd cringe... Why not use the actual footage instead.

 

[sonhow]

Because he was too dominant and had to give his opponent more of a chance to win.

 

[tgv976]

He shaved his head and lost all his powers similar to Samson. And he traded in the touch butt for touch tit, coke, and heavy drinking.