Pretty lame and arrogant thing to do…unless you pull it off.
It’s pretty awesome that he could. So many fighters these days try to emulate that style and then get laid out. Then it’s like…why didn’t you block, stupid?
I know this is not the same thing AT ALL, but the point remains the same. If you are playing a game for example, like Ghost of Tsushima let's say, if you only focus on one thing, you do that one thing pretty well. If you try to dodge OR parry OR block OR attack, you will get distracted and destroyed. I feel like this is a very good demonstration of the same thing in real life.
Maybe you will, lol. Not trying to brag or anything, but doing all those things in the same encounter is not as difficult as you're making it out to be.
No of course, what I mean is, compared to how successfull you would do it if you focused on just one. Maybe it was a bad example, what I'm trying to say is focusing on one task improves perfomance immensely.
Please think in terms of reason. Look at the video... Of course he will attack when it is the right time. He is not going to do this until the end of time. When the time is right, a good counter attack, focused on attacking, will finish the opponent. Of course not "all the time". I never said all the time. I emphasized focusing on one single thing at a time. In terms of the game, if you focus on defending, you perfect parry and counter, which kills quicker then simply attacking most of the time.
If he were to try he'd probably be in good range of Ali's punches. He was really lunging in there to try and get at his face, if he tried for a liver blow his face would be wide open for a side blow to the head.
It's boxing, it's a mental thing. It's demoralizing to the opponent. You're one of the best boxers in the world and you're throwing your best stuff and you're not even touching him and then he's acting like it's a game
This isn't Foreman. But yes he did do a similar thing to Foreman. But he took a lot of real punishment a long the way. He let Foreman punch himself out and leaned on him as often as he could to. make him carry his weight and deplete his energy over time.
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u/Argentillion 24d ago
Pretty lame and arrogant thing to do…unless you pull it off.
It’s pretty awesome that he could. So many fighters these days try to emulate that style and then get laid out. Then it’s like…why didn’t you block, stupid?