Mike Bohn<\/a>. \u201cThink about that for a second. It\u2019s really that simple. 40 takedowns off. Is that possible for Petr Yan? I think it\u2019s very possible. The other thing is, I think the Fight Analytics are the ones who make the takedowns. I don\u2019t think they know what a takedown is. I really mean that. It\u2019s sad. It\u2019s depressing that they don\u2019t know what a takedown is; but it\u2019s okay, they\u2019re doing the best they can. He got something like 30 takedowns on (Cory) Sandhagen in one fight. This is what he does. So if you\u2019re Petr Yan, what do you gotta do? Well, if I just get it to 10 takedowns instead of 50, I already gave myself 40-percent better chance, right?\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cStrike count changes everything, too,\u201c Cruz added. \u201dSo if you\u2019re throwing all body shots to Merab, you\u2019re doing all body work and you throw very limited kicks, how does he shoot on you if your arms are going to your body? Now he can\u2019t get underneath your arms, right? And his favorite shot is a single leg. So get very proficient in stuffing that single leg. O\u2019Malley had a really good single leg defense. I think he should go back and watch O\u2019Malley\u2019s single leg defense. He should copy that. Take away the single leg, force him to shoot doubles, funnel him to double legs, and funnel him to force that, then change your punch count from body work to uppercuts, and knees and elbows into clinch. Those are things that can really make a difference for you. And he has all those tools. But it\u2019s gonna take fight IQ and good game planning and good coaching too, I think.\u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the thing that I made my style off of is feint, fake to break timing and rhythm and angles,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cNow if you\u2019re at an angle, there\u2019s no shot. You can\u2019t shoot unless they\u2019re in front of you. And I think that\u2019s why Petr Yan got taken down so much because he always fights on a very straight line. Forward, back, forward, back. There\u2019s very little side-to-side with him. So you have to figure out a way, he\u2019s got to figure out a way to move side-to-side. Got to figure out a way to add it in, the lateral movement, and pull Merab into stuff. Sean O\u2019Malley has a style like that that\u2019s similar to what I do, like how he does pull side-to-side, a lot of lateral movement, a lot of footwork. But he doesn\u2019t have the wrestling base that Merab has, so he couldn\u2019t stop the takedowns.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So what can Yan do differently the second time around? \u201cJust get taken down 10 times instead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,4454],"class_list":["post-308924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}