One of the great things about being an outfighter who's great in the clinch is that you can just decide to not get pressured if you have an advantage in tie ups

Usman shifts to southpaw off his front kick and lines up his left hand

Lazaro Dayron launches Raufeon Stots off his feet with a double leg

Local southpaw confused when orthodox opponent initiates every attack with jab

Dauren Ermekov counters a leg kick by stomping the knee

Nkosi Ndebele shows Brandon Davis the agony of the feet

Ernesto Rodriguez follows Thad Jean's jab back with shifting combos

Bryce Meredith stuffs Michael Cyr's head between his legs and rolls him with a chestwrap, then scissors his head and controls an arm to keep him flat while coming on top From there he takes a kimura on the trapped arm, transitions to a darce as he rolls out, then takes his back

Nkosi Ndebele mugging Brandon Davis in the clinch

This might be the cleanest strike anyone's ever landed with their ass

Abuby's duck under and bodylock takedown is thwarted by Saygid's obviv

Mehdi Baydulaev trips out Gadzhimurad Aliev's legs to expose his back

Danny Sabatello counters a double leg with a funk roll

Viktor Ageyev demonstrating the Soviet swivel jab The back-and-forth bouncing and more reserved hip movement of Soviet boxers lend themselves better to leaping or whipping straight blows with the lead hand than powerful rotational hooks

Shabliy approaches Davis shuffling and bouncing side to side. Davis tries to ward him off with a lead hook, but Shabliy covers and bounces inside it with his own. The short bounces keep his legs activated to spring off immediately, and his lateral movement makes his attack less predictable.

Shabliy stuffs a takedown and transitions to offense right away with a knee and elbow

Shabliy blitzes Davis to the cage and Davis goes for a spinning elbow The next time, Shabliy shows the blitz and shoots under the elbow, then hits him on the way up

Alexandr Shabliy shutting down and punishing Alfie Davis' zany kicks

Salamat Isbulaev lands a rear hook off his body kick

AJ McKee hiding kicks behind his rear hand

Donchenko using his boxing to set up his leg kicks, hiding them behind his weight shifts as he moves his head, switching stances with punches to line them up, and kicking out of exchanges

Donchenko with a cheeky little sweep

As Berggren takes an underhook and tries to smother in the clinch, Donchenko limp arms to a collar tie, creating space to punch out

Donchenko blocking Berggren's high kicks and punting him in the leg

Wanchannoi sliming out Dokmaipa with leaping lead hooks The threat of his leg kick covers his weight shift onto the lead foot and Dokmaipa gets knocked out on one leg

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Alex Shlemenko still doing his thing at 75 years old, landing counter body hooks on Nikola Dipchikov

Justin Gaethje's Transitional Attacks 📽️ I talk about how Gaethje used his clinch entries and transitions to set up offense and defuse Topuria's As well as what Topuria could have done differently to mitigate Gaethje's tactics

Gaethje lands a sneaky head kick on the break

The lead leg headkicks were a clever look from Gaethje. Ilia never counters these and whenever he threw it, Ilia would have to keep his right hand pinned at his head, giving Gaethje time and space to circle away