![]() Against Moraes, Aldo seemed to chase a little more than he was used to. You wouldn’t be able to find it all against Chad Mendes. ![]() He’s developed something much closer to that Juan Manuel Marquez base: moving his body (especially his lead shoulder) to invite bad entries, and counterpunch in combination. Here, Aldo’s upper body movement was stellar. The more noise you can throw into the movement microwave - be it heavy or light - the harder those movements are to predict or stop. Nor does this binary way of looking at movement mean there aren’t gradations. UFC Champs like Kamaru Usman and Charles Oliviera are not subtle movers. That doesn’t more movement is better than less movement, and vice versa. ![]() More movement typically generates more reactions. I just know that movement is, well, movement. I’m not the technique nerd to break down specifically what it all means for specific strike selection. Round two: the value of upper body movementĪldo’s lead hand has always been busy. It was his best punch of the fight (his second best being a left hook in the second round that was also a lead punch). Munhoz caught him good with a simple lead right hand. Notice how Aldo’s head movement is so good against combinations, even against the fence, but he can be routinely caught with lead punches. Just as Aldo has trouble calibrating the velocity of his entries, I sometimes wonder if it affects his calibration of an opponent’s entries as well. I don’t think it’s his best trait, but it’s the part of his game that opponents have to penetrate first if they stand a chance. Not only was he at a reach disadvantage, but Aldo’s counter movement was stellar. To be fair, there wasn’t a whole lot Munhoz could do. If you couldn’t land a harder-to-defend, quick strike like a calf kick, how on earth was a spinning kick gonna do the trick? Unlike Nick Diaz, I’m pro “spinning shit.” The problem here is that Munhoz kept throwing it, and throwing it. Throwing a spinning kick is totally fine. Anyway, part of Munhoz’ issue in the first round was his approach.
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