Josh Barnett har vunnit åtta av sina nio senaste matcher. Förlusten kom mot Cain Velasquez klubbkamrat Daniel Cormier, under ”Strikeforce – Barnett vs. Cormier”.
Här berättar Barnett hur han tror det kommande tungviktsmötet mellan Velasquez och Junior dos Santos kommer att gå, vad Cain kommer att behöva göra för att ta hem segern denna gång, via ”The Joe Rogan Experience”:
Here’s the deal – Cain doesn’t get his takedown game going with his distance on his striking early on, and Junior’s dictating pace and distance on stopping the takedown, it’s going his way. Bombs away, he’s going to take him out. I don’t think he’s going to one-punch him again cause he’s not normally — he’s not normally a one-punch guy as you’ve seen, but his accuracy is very high and he’ll pick Cain apart.
If Cain can get his takedown game, his timing on fighting Junior to initiate and score the takedown early on, if he can get it going and be successful with it, he can win that fight.
Junior’s got great feet which is tough, but Cain can do it. Cain, if he’s smart enough, and if he can get the right mindset, he can put Junior on his back. And once it starts it can continue.
You get that timing down and all of a sudden you pick up on that shoulder movement before that jab comes and you fake out an overhand right and then you got right into the takedown, you pull him forward with some strikes, he thinks it’s an exchange and then boom you get him on his back.
He’s still not going to be successful unless he gets that takedown, that timing down. If he doesn’t get that timing down it won’t even matter.
Matchen mellan Velasquez och Junior tar plats under UFC 155 den 29 december, i Las Vegas. Även Josh har en match att se fram emot, då han tar sig an Nandor Guelmino under kommande ”Strikeforce: Marquardt vs. Saffiedine”, den 12 januari.
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