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Two things I believe...
For a jab to be effective it needs to be a power punch that actually does some damage. It can still be a jab but it needs to be damaging. Otherwise the risk/reward ratio just doenst add upp with the clinches and doubles....
And about the fact that the standup is "bad" or "sloopy" has a hell of a lot to do with the fact that a huuuge part of the defensive "shield" (the gloves) are removed, so it is beneficial to just simply bomb away when you are standing up since some of it will be slipping in....
Then of course we have skill diferences that may make some fighters reckless when fighting certain fighters who have whery little standup... Like when Wand faces one of many fighters with "low" standup he just bombs away on them and takes the victory (since they dont got a defense to it), which obviously is a good gameplan in that scenario... But when he faced Crocop he played a much tighter game which was a wise gameplan when facing Crocop.... ...
Personaly I believe that a tight compact standup is the future of mma but still...
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