Leg kicks stops people in their tracks!
Let me first say, I am a huge Faber fan. The guy is one of my favorite all time fighters. I had a broken foot last year at the same time of his fight with (overrated) Mike Thomas Brown. I know how much pain I was in and was amazed by his performance with a broken hand for 4 rounds. The dude has major heart!
I've been an MMA fan for over 10 years and over the last year, I've become very bored with the sport. I feel like instead of a guy giving interviews saying they are going to stop some guy with a KO in the 1st or subbing someone quickly, they should just say, I'm going to try and grind out a decision. MMA has become so evolved that fighters have begun to cancel out the strengths of their opponents. Wrestlers have taken over the sport and ground and pound or lay n' pray as I call it, has taken over a once exciting and refreshing sport.
If you saw Aldo's performance tonight, it reminds me of what dad's tell their kids about baseball...."did you see that double play"...."did you see that pitch"..."that's how you do it son, that's how you make it to the big time."
I'm not saying Uriah is one of those one dimensional fighters that relies on wrestling and take-downs. I'm talking about all of the other guys we've seen over the last few months, that use this technique without any opposition.
Those leg kicks from Aldo completely stopped Faber from any offense. He could not find distance, he could not set up his combo's, but MOST importantly he could not engage to wrestle him into the fence nor could he even attempt even something close to a take-down.
The knees he threw when Faber charged him, the kicks that made him limp, changed Uriah's whole game plan. Why do more guys not throw these knees during a take-down attempt?....it puts fear in peoples minds instantly. Why do more guys not throw those kicks?...it makes opponents legs like rubber and completely shuts down their explosive take-down ability. Sure, you can say Aldo looked one dimensional with his kicks, but how many times do you see a one dimensional wrestler take someone down and lay on them for 3/5 rounds?
This is the reason the UFC cannot find a suitable opponent for Anderson Silva, and the reason you see these BJJ guys getting spooked by him. These 1 dimensional BJJ fighters need to learn how to kick to supplement their main fighting form. If more Jiu-Jitsu fighters learned to do these legs kicks, it would make a ton of fights more exciting. If more young MMA fighters learn how to do this, they will change and evolve the sport from the wrestling base phenomenon that has taken over the sport.
Again, I'm not comparing Uriah to the boring lay n' pray style of a lot of fighter's today, I'm trying to point out how someone with a style like Aldo can be so dangerous....use the leg kicks to create distance/doubt/pain/defense of take-downs/control....and if it goes to the ground, then use your BJJ black-belt skills.
I think a lot of young fighters can learn form his performance, the guy is a beast!
....and what's up with Zuffa trying to make us think the WEC doesn't really existl?....throw it down the memory hole
(copied and pasted from my blog)
From a gambling standpoint, this should be a lesson to everyone. That line was screaming for money on Faber, the bookmakers knew how this fight was going to pan out. They cleaned up tonight on the value pick that had Faber at almost a 3/1 dog close to fight time.
Let me first say, I am a huge Faber fan. The guy is one of my favorite all time fighters. I had a broken foot last year at the same time of his fight with (overrated) Mike Thomas Brown. I know how much pain I was in and was amazed by his performance with a broken hand for 4 rounds. The dude has major heart!
I've been an MMA fan for over 10 years and over the last year, I've become very bored with the sport. I feel like instead of a guy giving interviews saying they are going to stop some guy with a KO in the 1st or subbing someone quickly, they should just say, I'm going to try and grind out a decision. MMA has become so evolved that fighters have begun to cancel out the strengths of their opponents. Wrestlers have taken over the sport and ground and pound or lay n' pray as I call it, has taken over a once exciting and refreshing sport.
If you saw Aldo's performance tonight, it reminds me of what dad's tell their kids about baseball...."did you see that double play"...."did you see that pitch"..."that's how you do it son, that's how you make it to the big time."
I'm not saying Uriah is one of those one dimensional fighters that relies on wrestling and take-downs. I'm talking about all of the other guys we've seen over the last few months, that use this technique without any opposition.
Those leg kicks from Aldo completely stopped Faber from any offense. He could not find distance, he could not set up his combo's, but MOST importantly he could not engage to wrestle him into the fence nor could he even attempt even something close to a take-down.
The knees he threw when Faber charged him, the kicks that made him limp, changed Uriah's whole game plan. Why do more guys not throw these knees during a take-down attempt?....it puts fear in peoples minds instantly. Why do more guys not throw those kicks?...it makes opponents legs like rubber and completely shuts down their explosive take-down ability. Sure, you can say Aldo looked one dimensional with his kicks, but how many times do you see a one dimensional wrestler take someone down and lay on them for 3/5 rounds?
This is the reason the UFC cannot find a suitable opponent for Anderson Silva, and the reason you see these BJJ guys getting spooked by him. These 1 dimensional BJJ fighters need to learn how to kick to supplement their main fighting form. If more Jiu-Jitsu fighters learned to do these legs kicks, it would make a ton of fights more exciting. If more young MMA fighters learn how to do this, they will change and evolve the sport from the wrestling base phenomenon that has taken over the sport.
Again, I'm not comparing Uriah to the boring lay n' pray style of a lot of fighter's today, I'm trying to point out how someone with a style like Aldo can be so dangerous....use the leg kicks to create distance/doubt/pain/defense of take-downs/control....and if it goes to the ground, then use your BJJ black-belt skills.
I think a lot of young fighters can learn form his performance, the guy is a beast!
....and what's up with Zuffa trying to make us think the WEC doesn't really existl?....throw it down the memory hole
(copied and pasted from my blog)
From a gambling standpoint, this should be a lesson to everyone. That line was screaming for money on Faber, the bookmakers knew how this fight was going to pan out. They cleaned up tonight on the value pick that had Faber at almost a 3/1 dog close to fight time.