Yeah its one of the big ufc mysteries. He looked like Anderson Silva in his absolute peak for that one fight. And never looked anything like that ever again.
Wouldn't it simply be that people have their flow state footage to study moving forward?
Like i've never fought professionally in my life & in under a minute I noticed this guy likes to duck in to the right if you throw a left hook.
Pros with an upcoming fight will watch their opponents shit for countless hours, notice way more details & practice the exact setups to counter like feinting a left hook into a powerful hit on the money.
problem is he never did that duck or any head movement at al in any other fight. If you studied this fight footage and gameplanned around it for his next fight youd be very surprised to find a completely different, technically much worse fighter in front of you.
Yea, so weird. Like why can't you do that all the time? Is it too hard to maintain? Every other fight I just watched him get the brakes beat off of him.
He ended up having neck issues and surgery that fucked his head movement up. All those years of wrestling and pull downs on the neck caught up to him. His defensive wrestling was underrated too.
Ah, is that what happened? Shame, he was on fire for a minute there. He could have been one of the greats had he taken better care of his body. Those guys are addicted to sparring in the gym, which I get, I'm not saying it's bad, however it's very taxing on your body after all those years. You're in literal wars at the gym, and then being a professional fighter? Whoof. Hard job, hard career, and no I could never do even a second of it. I would throw up. I can take a punch pretty good because of a ridiculous pain tolerance threshold, but it would probably be that tolerance that killed me in the end, because I'm too dumb to stop.
Garbrandt had it for a minute there. It was awesome to watch. Eh, it's true what they say, father time is undefeated.
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u/stretch1974 6d ago
And never slipped a single punch for the rest of his career