He did it—and made it look easy—but how? Blaine Henry answers that question and others, in this illustrated breakdown of Sean Strickland's incredible performance at UFC 293 on Saturday in Sydney.
, but he does just enough, and had improved just enough going into this fight, that it gave Adesanya major problems and was the source of his woes all night.In Figure 1, we can see Adesanya caught in an age-old trap he consistently gets caught in. Parked against the fence, Adesanya reaches out and probes with his lead hand. Strickland reaches out and grabs it with his own lead hand.
Doing this really buggered up Adesanya’s night. Strickland was not the prettiest, most disciplined, or technically sound when parrying away, but it was effective. When push comes to shove, it doesn’t matter if you look like you’re slap fighting. If it is working against Adesanya, one of the UFC’s best strikers, keep it up—especially if he doesn’t make any adjustments.
I’m afraid that we’re seeing the simplification of Adesanya’s game. At 34 years of age, that’s a bad sign. In mounting his offensive pursuit, Strickland continued to fight the probing hand of Adesanya all five rounds.One of my favorite parts of the fight was Strickland straight up grabbing and pulling Adesanya’s probing hand like an arm drag. In this particular case, Strickland manages to land a knee to the midsection while he pulls Adesanya to him.
Strickland managed to find himself in the pocket with Adesanya in the middle of the cage, AKA “IzzyLand.” Strickland fires off a jab and brings his rear leg around at a new angle. Notice how Adesanya has snuck his own rear foot up and how Strickland has his right hand on the phone again. Adesanya would have the step-up high kick already chambered here but Strickland’s high guard stifles that option and Adesanya decides to wait.
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