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For one night only, Cody Garbrandt was the finest fighter on earth.  

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Absolute Masterclass - Garbrandt vs Cruz - The Fight Primer

When the Ultimate Fighting Championship acquired World Extreme Cagefighting, it picked up numerous talented fighters for its existing divisions but more importantly it acquired two new divisions: featherweight and bantamweight. The WEC featherweight champion, Jose Aldo, became the UFC featherweight champion and defended his throne time and again over the next four years.

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Drakes Cakes

Some of your best work yet! Excellent read Jack

Chris H

This is my favourite piece to date. Thanks Jack.

Cosmo Reverb

Fantastic piece about an incredible fight.

Matt

I loved this fight, amazing breakdown. Thanks!

MyNameIsNotBob

Great work Jack! Would you ever consider doing something on what potential things Garbrandt to do up his game to perform at the level of this fight more consistently?

Azri Rahmat

I was giving claps at the end of the audio

Andrew Burke

This is gold Jack! Love the addition of the figures. That must have been a lot of work! It kinda looks to me like Cejudo caught Cruz with the knee when he was backed up against the cage in a reverse of Fig 5. C.

Ben Carver

Dude so good, thank you. I can see Willie Pep footage in my head when reading that lovely summation on counter punching, "By adopting the role of the matador, Garbrandt also gave himself the opportunity to stop in his tracks and create a collision. So much of counter punching is in getting an opponent to take extra steps—to anticipate your retreat and commit to running through the space you’re standing in because you have already given ground several times. Retreat, retreat, retreat, stand and counter. In this way, a fighter can run his opponent onto severe blows."