I sent out a tweet which I normally you know don't and so I sent out two here's
the tweet here's the tweet that I actually sent up
it was to the notorious MMA which is Connor I said stay outside the first
three rounds don't overcommit strikes mostly jabs get booed by the crowd
doesn't matter frustrate frustrate could be force bad shots tire him out in the
fourth start stepping up the striking in the fifth let it go and finish him good
luck John Kavanagh at John Kavanagh I tagged his coach because his coach well
okay no people are going okay well why are you rooting for Conor McGregor and
some people went like a little crazy like why are you when he's a bad sets a
bad example for the sport and all that and so actually the reason is because
I've communicated with Coach Cavanaugh a decent amount on Twitter and little DMS
and all that and just you know he just has been kind of like a cool guy and
here he was going in to coach his fighter in the biggest fight of of
Connors life and you know just because we've had that little converse that
we've had conversations on Twitter a bunch and I just threw that out there
like two hours before I mean we I was watching the first fights when I threw
that out there and you know what the really funny thing is John Kavanagh
texted back or he tweeted back copy so he actually read it and responded which
is pretty crazy so so anyways because I have had a little interaction with coach
John Kavanagh I felt like you know hey off of us out there also you know Hans
sure Hans is like boys with Conor right and Hans is my boy so I was you know
that that association there's Association you know I'm gonna make hey
Hans is my boy and he has been for a long time and he's bros with Conor and
so I just you know like again so so people are why did you why you
for this guy when so there's that whole thing now the the the other odd thing
about this is you have a striker versus a grappler who do I root for in striker
versus of grappler grab I always root for the grappler and I know that
factually and statistically the grappler has the advantage because grappling
versus striking the grappler wins most of the time how can you go the distance
with this argument sure you can took at all the people that all the times that a
striker is actually a good grappler and then they don't use their grappling but
they use their grappling only to defend from being taken down Chuck Liddell then
there's a bunch of other there's countless guys that you can now name
that knocked people out and people were known for their stand-up but what they
really were their base was that they were a good restaurant couldn't be taken
down so but generally striker versus grappler the striker and this is what I
talk about from a self-defence perspective right if a if you're a good
striker then that means you can run away the end and if you're a good grappler
once you get a hold of someone you can defeat someone that has good striking
here's the thing that people to understand in order for you to punch
someone you have to get close enough for them that where they can take you down
you have to get into their takedown ranch the ridge so you have to get in
the redzone so once you're in the red zone you can get taken down so how do
you defeat that as a as a striker how do you defeat a really good grappler the
way you do it is by doing what I just said you stay on the outside you you
touch person up you don't overcommit you shirk because the harder you notice how
many rounds have you done of MMA sparring countless okay me too so it
when I would be going against a striker the harder they throw at you the easier
it is to take him down all day long and when I'm going against a wrestler that I
don't want to get taken down against like I used to do this to Dean then just
frustrate him not commit to any punches not throw any kicks at all sit there in
jab and run away for basically two or three rounds and even Dean who's a far
superior wrestler to me would have a very very hard time taking
me down yeah so this is a legit strategy the reason I know it's a legit strategy
is because people have used it against Dean when Dean was fighting MMA people
used that particular strategy against him and it worked
mm-hm and so I know the strategy works guys that Dean was infinitely better on
on the ground mm-hm and yet he couldn't take him down and he was infinitely
better at wrestling why could he take him out because they weren't playing
that game they weren't playing they weren't even playing the MMA game they
were playing the I'm gonna jab you and stay away