Opinion: Justin Gaethje KO of Porier was on the best displays of fight IQ I’ve ever seen.
Too explain myself briefly, dustin porier is known for his unorthodox guards which many fighters have trouble. Max Holloway mid fight with dustin porier even expressed his difficulties with poriers unique style of guard. However Dustin’s has a crucial weakness which has only truly been exploited recently by Justin, his right hand is lowered to raise his elbow. This makes it difficult to block high kicks effectively while in the guard as traditionally the right hand would be used to stop the kick whereas the left hand is up to further her mitigate damage. Due to Dustin guards while block punches this becomes incredibly difficult which is why Justin baiting dustins guard and exploiting his one arm defence was such a great display of fight iq as many other fighters have struggled to deal with Dustin’s elbow high guard.
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