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UFC 242: Might we see a repeat of Jorge Masvidal’s killer flying knee from Poirier towards Khabib?
MMA consultants have speculated that UFC interim light-weight champion Dustin Poirier might discover the keys to victory towards Khabib Nurmagomedov in a flying knee made well-known by Jorge Masvidal, as a consequence of their mutual coach Mike Brown.
The crack of Jorge Masvidal’s flying knee kick touchdown on the cranium of Ben Askren of their July 7 UFC 239 match was felt world wide, and propelled Cuban-American Masvidal, already using a wave of recognition after his KO win over Darren Until, into the MMA stratosphere.
The quickest knockout in UFC historical past took simply 5 seconds, however within the 48 hours earlier than the battle, the assault had been meticulously deliberate between Masvidal and coach Mike Brown, who posted a clip of his cost perfecting the transfer within the health club following the win.
Brown, a former UFC fighter himself within the featherweight division and a jiu-jitsu black belt, can be the coach of Louisiana’s Poirier, and the coach posted a gushing message to Instagram just lately wherein he insisted his man was “able to shock the world.”
It has been speculated by some MMA consultants, that Poirier’s methodology to shock the world at The Area on YAS Island in Abu Dhabi on Saturday could possibly be that exact same flying knee.
Masvidal’s victory is related right here as a result of it got here towards Askren, a world champion wrestler who naturally went for the takedown as Masvidal rushed in the direction of him, solely to be caught chilly by the flying knee on the final second.
Many are already drawing comparisons between that battle and one other Mike Brown fighter in Poirier going towards a high wrestler in Dagestan native Khabib, who might use the identical ways within the battle that would depart him open for the knee.
As MMA analyst Robin Black outlined to RT Sport: “If I am Khabib and I need to wrestle you, I can take the physique lock…however extra seemingly Khabib and high wrestlers will seize your hips, a double leg, a single leg, or a excessive crotch the place the arm will go excessive up beneath the thigh and can carry with the bar beneath.
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“All of this stuff require me to bend my physique down. And fairly merely, I am bending my physique down and the knee comes up – that is that carried out with. It is so simple as that.”
Black did nevertheless level out that Khabib’s resistance to such strikes is extraordinarily excessive, and presents a hazard to Poirier ought to he try the identical KO kick Masvidal made look really easy. His recommendation? That highly effective southpaw striker Poirier ought to look to maintain the ‘Dagestan Eagle’ at distance by hitting and transferring.
Will we see a repeat of the flying knee that may finish a battle so all of a sudden within the UFC light-weight unification battle on Saturday? Or will Khabib energy by and make his method to one other title defence? Saturday evening will inform all.
