h\/t Championship Rounds<\/a>). “I have had a limb break inside the octagon, so now I must have an answer to that. I have the perfect scenario: You knock them out with the big backhand, the crowd roars. But then I have the worst-case scenario: The shoulder dislocates midway through the first round. What’s my mechanisms? The lead shoulder dislocates in the first round. What’s my movements? What’s my reactions? Do I switch the stance? Do I go to my back?<\/p>\n“I have a whole selection of responses to the worst-case scenarios \u2013 not that I sit and dwell on them, or overthink them, but I just have them. So if the ankle goes, if the knee goes, if the shoulder goes, what’s my response? Because the fight’s not over. If you give, it’s over. If you have a maneuver, you can outlast and you can survive in there and then get toward the victory. I have found as I have gotten more experience in the fight game to work my way backwards from the worst-case scenario, to the best-case scenario, and then focus and prepare for the best-case scenario. That’s where I’m at right now, so I have every situation that may occur and my answers to it.”<\/p>\n
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