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Originally Posted by SonnyakaPig
Thank you for posting such a thorough guide to cornering fighters. You really did an awesome job.
I cornered a professional fighter named Marcus Ajian a few months ago in Long Beach, Ca. He won by guillotine in the first round. Your guide would have been very helpful to me prior to that fight. But I will definitely print your posts out so I can save them as an excellent reference.
Marcus later tried out for the upcoming season of TUF and made it but some things happened at the last minute and he was unable to continue on. Look out for him though, he's really talented.
Edit: Btw, I respect what you said about not explaining complicated new moves right before the fight. Prior to Marcus's fight, we lightly drilled the basics. I had a buddy of mine work on the ground with him because my back was bad; I worked the pads.
Marcus has an excellent squeeze and he favors the guillotine so we practived some set-ups for that move and also some defenses. He also told me to watch the fight closely and to shout out instructions if necessary. He said he would listen.
Well, he went out there, and when the fight hit the ground he ended up using one of the guillotine defenses that we covered before the fight and he sunk a guillotine of his own and squeezed hard when I told him it was working. So we had a really good fight that night. Marcus of course deserves all of the credit but as a team we worked well. I felt privileged to corner him.
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Yeah, this rings true for a lot of fighters. At least it should. There are certain things that are sure to happen in the fight so you have to be ready for it. If you know your guy has a great guard but take a lot of punishment sometimes, drill tying up the opponent with a high guard, rubber guard, over hooks and under hooks, and controlling the guys posture. Things like this can mean the difference between a win or a loss sometimes. And they are basic things to drill.
I seriously watched one guy try to show his fighter how to do a tornado kick right before a fight. Which is fine I suppose, but the fighter looked confused as hell. And it's just something that he probably wouldn't have needed. He was going over a tornado kick when I would have focused on him keeping the right hand up when he jabbed so he wouldn't get countered with a left hook... which he did and it didn't end the fight but it was one of those things that happened all night long.