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I don't disagree with what you said but you're not exactly disagreeing with me either.
You're right that everything Dan threw started with the left leg followed by the right hand or was simply some variant of leading with the right hand. But there was plenty of variety in how he did it.
If that's what you're disagreeing with then ok.
You didn't consider the skipping left kick to be a different set up than the pure lead leg kick? Different range? Different entry? Etc. Or the lunging right hand feint to have different timing than when Dan committed to the right hand as the only movement?
Admittedly, I watched the fight afterward and had the benefit of rewinding frequently to observe how each exchange was initiated.
I agree that he tried a lot of different ways to set up the right hand, and he had some pretty impressive ways of doing it.
But it was still all lead leg or right hand oriented--- no back leg set ups, no left hand setups.
So I think the term "unpredictable" is a little kind. He used the same hand and the same leg and the end result was always the H-Bomb. And he did this for 15 minutes.
I also thought he was kind of short changing (or at least shortening) the rights he was throwing, mostly out of fear of leaving himself too open after the punch. That wasn't helping.