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The Evolving Striking of Ilia Topuria - The Fight Primer

Despite using his last two appearances to decimate a pair of the greatest fighters in MMA history, Ilia Topuria is still a helpless victim of rule changes and happenstance. Poised to step up in weight to fight Islam Makhachev for the lightweight crown, in arguably the biggest fight that can be made in MMA right now, Topuria was blindsided by both the UFC and the lightweight champion.

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Skip Grow

Good analysis. But audio keeps freezing - having this problem a lot on this site.

Mauricio Yin Vieira

Hey Jack, love the article and analysis! I've been working on and studying some hand trapping, so this came in super handy! Thanks. Have you heard of eBoxing Academy? Very underrated page, the guy, a boxing coach, has many videos specifically on Long Guard, very consistent, with like drills, sparring, tape, interviews and everything. Very scientific and well-explained, drawing from other martial arts too. He goes into a lot of detail and shows a lot of examples in boxing fights about the cross hand parry/check that you talked about for Topuria. You should check it out. He's on patreon but I think he released his latest video on the subject on YouTube. Thanks again!