02-27-2007, 10:16 AM
Check out some of Kimbo's other fights on youtube. In most of them the opponents are scared witless. When they do go in on him they duck and cover and throw blind shots that miss. Kimbo ont he other hand, beign much taller than some of these guys, just waits and then clocks them.
In the Adryan(sp) fight, watch how Kimbo always gets his left hand behind his neck and then pulls him into the right hand punch. Very effective and completely blocks anything but a righthanded uppercut from his opponent.
I also see that Kimbo wears a mouth guard (very smart) where it seems his opponents do not??? Even if you tagged him on the jaw, the mouth guard helps with some of the distribution of impact, especially on the uppercut, which is what his shorter opponents are likely going to land.
In the Gannon fight Kimbo simply gets exhausted and Gannon doesn't. Nobody wins that match in my opinion. Kimbo just doesn't have the stamina needed for a longer fight, not that Gannon was better. At the end he is punched out and his strikes are like fists on the ends of garden hoses...extended and hanging down. Neither guy had any gas in the tank at the end.
In the Adryan(sp) fight, watch how Kimbo always gets his left hand behind his neck and then pulls him into the right hand punch. Very effective and completely blocks anything but a righthanded uppercut from his opponent.
I also see that Kimbo wears a mouth guard (very smart) where it seems his opponents do not??? Even if you tagged him on the jaw, the mouth guard helps with some of the distribution of impact, especially on the uppercut, which is what his shorter opponents are likely going to land.
In the Gannon fight Kimbo simply gets exhausted and Gannon doesn't. Nobody wins that match in my opinion. Kimbo just doesn't have the stamina needed for a longer fight, not that Gannon was better. At the end he is punched out and his strikes are like fists on the ends of garden hoses...extended and hanging down. Neither guy had any gas in the tank at the end.