Du Plessis vs Whittaker: Tactics vs Mechanics
It only took beating one of the pound-for-pound most skilled fighters in the world for fans and press to recognize that Dricus Du Plessis might know what he's doing.
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I'm very glad you do focused analysis, not just the podcast. Those are too long and unfocused. I would listen to a highlights of them, but the ones I tried to listen to were painfully boring. These articles are so great
"Whittaker himself is known for his clinical precision seventy percent of the time and swinging like a wild man the other twenty five." The Nik Lentz of calculating percents.
The other five percent is going full retard. Love Rob but he does it to himself
I think people underestimated Du Plessis’s sheer physicality as well. The guy is a monstrously strong middleweight which confers a huge advantage and covers for shortcomings in his technique. If you haven’t seen it already there’s a video of him crushing people from top position in a grappling tournament in South Africa.
Think that tournament the commentators put him at almost 100kg out of camp.
Lovely, thank you for breaking down this fight logistically. Seems that the emotional reaction from hard core fans was coloring the discourse too much
Here I am, enjoying my evening, then I get a notification for this and the pain comes flooding back :(