That was a horrific game plan against Barbosa. Did they not watch any Barbosa fights? You have to press him off his kicks and if you are a grappler, like Makwan, wrestle him. Who thought it was a good idea to stand at distance and trade strikes? What the fuck.
He is now training with Team Wang based out of Las Vegas iirc.
John was out at Bellator France so I doubt it
Colby Covid19ington - That was a horrific game plan against Barbosa. Did they not watch any Barbosa fights? You have to press him off his kicks and if you are a grappler, like Makwan, wrestle him. Who thought it was a good idea to stand at distance and trade strikes? What the fuck.
Jamie Varner and his coaches were the first people to map the game plan out to figtht Barbossa! He pressed him and actually moved into his power (going twards the right hand) to move away from the spin kicks. Varner and ACS created the game plan every other fighter has fallowed to win!
IamHe -Colby Covid19ington - That was a horrific game plan against Barbosa. Did they not watch any Barbosa fights? You have to press him off his kicks and if you are a grappler, like Makwan, wrestle him. Who thought it was a good idea to stand at distance and trade strikes? What the fuck.Jamie Varner and his coaches were the first people to map the game plan out to figtht Barbossa! He pressed him and actually moved into his power (going twards the right hand) to move away from the spin kicks. Varner and ACS created the game plan every other fighter has fallowed to win!
Away from spin kicks means into leg and body kicks with Barbosa. There is no safe space out in kicking distance with Edson. You have to press him, pressure him backwards. He can’t kick going back. Move him into the cage. Then wrestle, grapple and grind him out. Number of wrestlers already showed you how. You have to bite down and go forward. Instead Makwan stood at distance taking strikes and giving nothing back.
IamHe -Colby Covid19ington - That was a horrific game plan against Barbosa. Did they not watch any Barbosa fights? You have to press him off his kicks and if you are a grappler, like Makwan, wrestle him. Who thought it was a good idea to stand at distance and trade strikes? What the fuck.Jamie Varner and his coaches were the first people to map the game plan out to figtht Barbossa! He pressed him and actually moved into his power (going twards the right hand) to move away from the spin kicks. Varner and ACS created the game plan every other fighter has fallowed to win!
Nah Ross Pearson & Nikajouni where. They where arguably robbed against Edson
IamHe -Colby Covid19ington - That was a horrific game plan against Barbosa. Did they not watch any Barbosa fights? You have to press him off his kicks and if you are a grappler, like Makwan, wrestle him. Who thought it was a good idea to stand at distance and trade strikes? What the fuck.Jamie Varner and his coaches were the first people to map the game plan out to figtht Barbossa! He pressed him and actually moved into his power (going twards the right hand) to move away from the spin kicks. Varner and ACS created the game plan every other fighter has fallowed to win!
Where are the bald ginger twins nowadays?
That fight was a really tough match for him.
Precise_Improvement -That fight was a really tough match for him.
Makwan is a pressure wrestling grappler fighting a guy who is susceptible to being controlled and ground out by pressuring wrestlers.
Is it a bad matchup for Makwan, though? For sure, it is a tough fight, but any ranked fighter would be for Makwan, really. This wasn’t a particularly bad matchup, imo, it played to AmirKhani’s strengths.
imagine Edson’s kicks with Ortega’s jiujitsu
Colby Covid19ington -Precise_Improvement -That fight was a really tough match for him.
Makwan is a pressure wrestling grappler fighting a guy who is susceptible to being controlled and ground out by pressuring wrestlers.
Is it a bad matchup for Makwan, though? For sure, it is a tough fight, but any ranked fighter would be for Makwan, really. This wasn’t a particularly bad matchup, imo, it played to AmirKhani’s strengths.
Stylistically a potentially good match up, but Barbosa is just a better fighter