Gordon Ryan
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He had a daughter.
He had a daughter.
Very interesting psychological study.
What'd you say?
Most guys at that level that quit that overtly.
He's a pressure fighter.
Nick and Nate did the same thing.
They're not knocking guys out left and right, but they're just constantly walking you down.
If you look at most of the champions, they have one thing that they're better than almost everybody else in the world at, and they're sufficiently good at everything else.
Strickland's not better than...
than anybody at anything.
He's not the best striker, he's not the best wrestler, but he just has pressure.
There's so much can be said for just walking a guy down and putting pressure.
Now, obviously, a guy like Pereira is used to it, so he countered him as he was coming in.
But for most guys, he just walks him down and puts pressure.
Dude, Khabib just literally walks that guy.
He doesn't even shuffle.
Look at Khabib versus Edson Barboza.
He knew that Edson wanted to keep him at range to kick him.
So he literally just walked at him so that Edson couldn't shuffle back fast enough.