Robin Black sees more sparring footage - gives insight to Mac's gameplan
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Conor might be the best boxer in the world right now. Think about that.
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lmao
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Best of all time even.
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less than a week to go before VaultBoy becomes a travelling Hobo, moving town to town, atoning where he can
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Robin Black is living the life, I've always wanted a red wall.
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What's more fascinating to think about is that people with neanderthal brains like yourself still roam the earth in the 21st century.
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He pretty much says everything I've been saying about McGregor's (small) chances word for word. Remove as much complexity as possible. Use your extension, reach and north south movement to pop him with single shots from the outside. Rough him up with your weight and wrestling on the inside and lean on him to make him fatigue. Use your pivots and agility to vary the southpaw position (inside and outside with lateral movement). Don't even think about going into his waters.
Either we're both idiots or we're both observing the same things. It's again a small chance with a ton of unknowns but we've seen specialized game plans work in MMA and also boxing (Holyfield/Tyson, B-Hop/De La Hoya, etc) so maybe, just maybe...
Dismissing the idea altogether is just stupid and failing to even entertain the possibility. It's a sign of a flawed intellect.
Either we're both idiots or we're both observing the same things. It's again a small chance with a ton of unknowns but we've seen specialized game plans work in MMA and also boxing (Holyfield/Tyson, B-Hop/De La Hoya, etc) so maybe, just maybe...
Dismissing the idea altogether is just stupid and failing to even entertain the possibility. It's a sign of a flawed intellect.
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Hey robin ya lil birdie... I tried to watch and listen to your incoherent drawl voice...but I couldn't get past a few minutes. Plus the context of an unprofessional twat, tired, not fucking proper mate, get it fucking together than present yourself. Do at least the minimum cuz you're well below Shaub in his closet space with 2 microphone's.
Btn looking and listening to you and luke Thomas, you're both disasters.
Will never watch again. Ugggghhhhh.
Btn looking and listening to you and luke Thomas, you're both disasters.
Will never watch again. Ugggghhhhh.
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I watched about 10 minutes and actually started laughing. I don't understand why these MMA goofballs think they have somehow cracked a code that nobody has been able to figure out for a hundred years. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Boxing is not simple. MMA is not simple. You cannot watch a sport for a bit and go, "Oh okay, I figured this shit out, I'm going to make a youtube video about it," without coming across completely silly.
Boxers do not approach things the same way. Floyd is nothing like Pacquiao, Pacquiao is nothing like Marquez, Marquez is nothing like Mosley, Mosley is nothing like Prince Naseem, etc.
In what world do these UFC fans live? Are you guys really under the impression that all boxers and trainers think of things the same? It just seems like nobody associated with the UFC really understands much about boxing.
Boxing is not simple. MMA is not simple. You cannot watch a sport for a bit and go, "Oh okay, I figured this shit out, I'm going to make a youtube video about it," without coming across completely silly.
Boxers do not approach things the same way. Floyd is nothing like Pacquiao, Pacquiao is nothing like Marquez, Marquez is nothing like Mosley, Mosley is nothing like Prince Naseem, etc.
In what world do these UFC fans live? Are you guys really under the impression that all boxers and trainers think of things the same? It just seems like nobody associated with the UFC really understands much about boxing.
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The idea is that throughout that hundred years, a framework has been built. There's things that you do within that framework. A set way of doing things. Things outside that framework are "wrong" and shouldn't be done. At one point, they were wrong. But times change. Maybe those things aren't wrong anymore, but no one stopped and thought about putting it back inside the framework. Instead, such things are discarded from the outset, and never thought of again. The fact that boxing's framework has existed for over a hundred years only means it's stronger, and that more things have been discarded.
We're pack animals. We're followers. We follow the leader. We identify the strong individuals, then follow them. It's why the ad hominem argument is so prevalent. It's why cliques form and are such an important part of society. It extends from the school grounds all the way into politics. Whenever people express their opinion, they have a subconscious awareness of what the majority opinion is, and are drawn to parroting it out of fear of being a lone wolf. All of this is why 99% of people stay inside that framework, and why so few Conor McGregors exist.
No, Pacquiao is nothing like Marquez, Marquez is nothing like Mosley, Mosley is nothing like Prince Naseem. Black isn't saying they're all the same fighters. He's saying they all operate within the framework (though I'm not sure Prince Naseem does). There's freedom within the framework, and that's why they're different fighters. But they're still within it.
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I would give that man a chance at President, we need an outsider, you never know what this guy could do.
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Yeah the "we so smart" part I didn't agree with. For me it's more about maximizing athletic ability in order to limit technical skill - no need to complicate it beyond that. When Fury leaned on Cunningham or when Randy cage humped his opponents you could've similarly dressed it up in all these hazy theories, but at the end of the day it's just guys being smart about their limitations and using their athletic strengths to their advantages. Like if you got Jon Jones reach and skinny chicken legs that allows you to throw a ton of headkicks, then fuck yeah you should poke em with those all day unless someone has the antidote.
In Conor's case he's got reach, size, movement and wrestling advantages so he should attempt to force the game into that territory. Duh.
I also think Floyd knows it though and it is a bit disrespectful to assume that he doesn't. He's been saying "I gotta go to him" so he's more than likely aware that's he's got to find that medium range and pressure him. The caveat however is that Conor might potentially control two ranges. It is usually Floyd that controls long range and bullies his opponents with neck pulls and forearm crushes on the inside, using the medium range to mostly hide behind his shell and return counters, so if Conor takes those ranges from him it could get interesting because it would force Floyd being aggressive in a range where he's normally not the aggressor.
On the flipside Nate smashed Conor in that range though so lets see what happens.
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Once ever in human history.
