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Anyone else notice how there arent many prolific leg kickers in the HW division? Werdum and Overeem would be the most prolific still fighting, Pat Barry and Hardonk if you wanna go back to recent memory. Overeem doesnt even leg kick anymore. I wonder why so few HW implement a leg kick heavy style.
Good topic, I think you’re seeing it with a lot of the different division fighters (most notable example is Aldo). The two biggest possible reasons I can think of are a wrestling meta where energy losses in bottom position is a higher risk than damage from leg kicks.
Second thing is that when building the bone strength to perform such kicks requires training where you have small bone breaks in your shins and when the bone heals, it builds on top of itself making these kicks possible (saw in some documentary years back and I use to train my knuckles the same way). Heavyweights seem older and I’m not sure with their age if they can train this way as your body takes way longer to recover naturally post age 30.