Comments by "Fu Uf" (@fuuf7092) on "The ICE COLD HANDS of Stephen Fulton Jr!" video.
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮.....
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮..,,
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮.....x
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮..,.,
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮........,
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮..,,,x
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮..,,,.,.,x
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮..,,,,.x
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮..,,,,,
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮....,.,
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮..,.,.,.,.,
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮.......xx
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Fulton will run to a decision
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
So called goat Floyd was losing rounds to a 0 fight novice! And only reason it didn't go 12 is cos mgregory gassed. All because floyd weren't use to having a reach parity, or disadvantage.
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮....
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When the going gets tough, fulton becomes a runner.
Watch him run in the inoue fight
Reach advantage combined with a safety first running style is massively overlooked. Not saying fighters should change how they fight, but that we should recognise why some fighters had the success they did.
Izzy is elite, but much of his success was due to his reach advantage vs his rivals. Got outstruck by Jan on the feet, Alex landed more than izzy in their fights, one time he abandoned his safety first reach merchant style vs gastelum and nearly got KOd by a B rated fighter.
This is why when these type of fighters face someone their own size, they no longer look like the GOAT striker, they end up going life and death, like jj vs reyes, gustaffson, or izzy vs jan and alex.
izzy, silva, gane etc usually stay on the end of their reach, refusing to take any risk. Breaking the shorter man down from where there is no threat of retaliation, before going in for the kill. The shorter fighter has to lunge in to connect and so are at a great disadvantage. Many fighters have had the success they had largely due to this advantage they had vs their rivals. The smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to overcome this, and even then, e.g with Rob vs izzy, its still very hard
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮
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