Greatness is not wins or losses, it's something more intangible and impossible to define. He came short of being the best of his era, he absolutely demolished being the greatest
If you don't cut off Israel completely at this point when they're openly demonstrating the crimes against humanity they're about to perform then you'll never be able to pretend you didn't know
Many believe adjustments are usually complex, but, as Eddie Alvarez showed in his win against Justin Gaethje, they can be simple: If Gaethje likes the clinch, make it the worst place to be & keep the pace high to continue tire him out in the war of attrition.
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Lerryan Douglas battering Erosa's brain with beautiful spear jabs
The way to make this jab really hit hard and work as a lead straight is to stomp down hard on the lead foot and pop the rear hip kind of like you're swinging your butt back
One of the greatest mind control fighters of all time. I remembered this fight as a this flawless demo job, and looking at it again I'm like: oh Anderson is old and absolutely pooped, he's knackered from tying up with a LHW and still panics Bonnar into imploding, via swag
Here's an example of what this should look like. Aldo is constantly moving laterally, pivoting, making it impossible for Edgar to spear him linearly. He isn't never moving backwards, but he never takes more than 3 steps in a straight line. Constantly creating new angles
I rewatched Volk/Max 3 & it's always a testament to how it's one of the leading candidates for performance of the decade for many reasons, but one of them is how Holloway actually gets many ideas that would have worked or let him build against anyone else. And only some worked:
The biggest reason this is true is because almost every single boxing career is, in fact, a tragedy. It is a tragic sport and tragedy makes great drama.
Roberto Duran pulls off arguably the win of his generation in the kind of war that even a younger version of him could be intimidated by against a man who dwarfs him in stature and is at his technical peak while Duran is nearly 40. What can you even say that captures that?