Dan Tom
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MMA analyst for: @MMAJunkie, @USATODAYsports, Writer, interviewer, contributor for: @Home_of_Fight, Podcast host for: @DogOrPassPod, @ThePYNPodcast
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Mike Perry, who faces Nate Diaz at #MVPMMA1, is officially 1-4 opposite notable southpaws in MMA (W: D. Roberts; L: D. Rodriguez, A. Jouban, G. Neal, T. Means) He also fought and beat Luke Rockhold at #BKFC41, but left crosses remain Perry’s common culprit. #TheSouthpawReport
Dan Tom44,256 Aufrufe • vor 28 Tagen
🧵Jack Della Maddalena, who faces Carlos Prates at #UFCPerth, is 1-1 against UFC-level southpaws (W: D. Roberts; L: I. Makhachev) A fluid switch hitter, JDM prefers to match stances and works well off his lead hand. Southpaw kicks have had success on him. #TheSouthpawReport
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I caught Megan Olivi’s post-fight interview with Henry Cejudo and it both hit me in the feels and brought me back to Joe Rogan’s post-fight interview with BJ Penn at UFC 137 I don’t have kids, but I imagine that these sort of losses sting extra hard having to come home like that
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Tom Aspinall, who faces a southpaw-primary stance-switcher in Ciryl Gane, is officially 0-0 opposite UFC-level southpaws but did beat a stance-switcher in Marcin Tybura. #UFC321 He showed solid outside-foot awareness, good use of lead hand and smartly changed up kick selections:
Dan Tom216,758 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
Jack Della Maddalena utilizing the underrated turtle guard like this makes me wonder if he’s an Eduardo Telles fan… He combines the threats of Peterson roll variations to step-behind reversals that play well off each other depending on the weight the opponent gives you. #UFC315
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🧵Jack Della Maddalena, who faces Islam Makhachev at #UFC322, is 1-0 against UFC-level southpaws (W: D. Roberts) but has seen the stance before A fluid switch hitter, JDM prefers to match stances and works well off his lead hand. SP kicks have had some success #TheSouthpawReport
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Holloway came into the Topuria fight with solid ideas, not the least of which being his choice to use a rear-hand parry to help shut down Topuria’s crucial lead hand. However, Topuria made his own read, knowing his right would be there anytime he could draw it out/get around it:
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🧵Edson Barboza, who faces Jailin Turner at #UFC323, is officially 3-2 against UFC-level southpaws (W: Dariush, Amirkhani, Dunham; L: Mitchell, M. Johnson) Barboza favors countering, inside low kicks and bodywork in open-stance affairs, but left hands are his common culprit:
Dan Tom28,261 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
🧵Carlos Prates, who faces fellow southpaw Geoff Neal at #UFC319, is 0-0 against notable southpaws in MMA but has seen the stance a decent amount in kickboxing and Muay Thai, showing solid comfort and an ability to still find liver knees in the stance pairing. #TheSouthpawReport
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🧵 Renato Moicano, who faces Beneil Dariush at #UFC317, is 3-2 opposite UFC-level lefties (W: Turner, Dober, BSD; L: RDA, Makhachev) He still jabs and uppercuts southpaws but mainly prefers to counter. Left-sided strikes and body shots (in both stances) are his common culprit:
Dan Tom26,138 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
Chase Hooper, who faces Jim Miller at #UFC314, is officially 2-2 opposite UFC-level lefties (W: Leavitt, Barrett; L: Garcia, Caceres) He also beat a southpaw in Kawaihae on DWCS but he struggled with striking on all levels in those fights sans his Leavitt bout #TheSouthpawReport
Dan Tom29,277 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Israel Adesanya is a switch-stance fighter with excellent offense from both sides but a lot of his opponents’ biggest successes come when Izzy is in his southpaw stance. Anderson Silva, Kelvin Gastelum and Dricus Du Plessis seemed particularly prepared to blitz Izzy on switches:
Dan Tom22,540 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
R.I.P. to my best friend, Benjamin. I was incredibly lucky to basically have the ideal dog that the childhood boy in many of us dreams of (for 14 yrs, no less). Aside from being a literal super dog from smarts to athleticism, Ben was always there for me, even when I had no one.
Dan Tom15,341 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
Jamal Pogues, who faces Hamdy Abdelwahab at #UFCSaudiArabia, is officially 1-0 opposite UFC-level southpaws Despite fighting orthodox in his UFC debut, Hamdy lists himself as a southpaw. That said, Pogues shows serviceable striking against SP’s coming forward and off the counter
Dan Tom11,473 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr