yeah i guess i over-reacted a bit, but seriously why have a cool nickname like Rampage if someone ends up clipping it and make him sound lower than a squire? Seriously I hate the whole "page" thing, it came from TUF newbs trying to put their stamp on mma and it's just simply "the ghey." Nothing against you, not saying you're dumb, you're probably a cool mother f***er.
Anyway, i've watched a few of his fights and while initially he had his hands too low, it looks like he's started to correct that. His ringmanship is good in that he keeps out of the boxer's pocket and keeps to the outside. His strikes are technically sound, look very powerful (fight ending back kick) but they don't flow, he's either loading up too much or he seems to have trouble tracking his opponents. That is, he fires off a shot or two but then stops, regroups and stays outside again but then again maybe that's his strategy. The Rimbon fight is a good example of this, where he got a gift-boxed, hand-wrapped, home-town decision btw.
His clinch looks very good and knees appear to be his best asset.
He has thown a couple looping over hand lefts that really leave him exposed and if he's not using them to set up a shot then he should just leave them out of his game, a good counter striker will catch him on that.
His sprawl is very good but his follow up defence is not. Holding the ropes multiple times in match really saved his ass from being slammed into a very crap position. He went for a guillotine as a defence against a so-so double leg takedown attempt (shot and very delayed forward drive)-not smart imo. If you can't sprawl with your guilotine to cinch it in then you're just begging to be rotated and slammed onto your side, again, his rope grab saved that from happening. A much better defence is to slip in underhooks and stand your opponent up to either shoot or throw off that or use strikes, in his case knees would probably finish things off in short order. And if you can only get one underhook, that's fine, push on the head to get his shoulders below his hips, then decide what to do from a very advanageous position.
Nice triangle in the KSW 7 fight, it takes guts to go for that in a match, but it looked as though him getting it was due 50% to his efforts and 50% to his opponent not knowing how to either rotate out of it, stack him up, compact him and rotate out of it or posture up and break it. That being said, it wasn't a bad closed guard at all and a very nice triangle, but that being the only bit i really saw of him on the ground it's tough to say if i think he has a good ground game or not, i just haven't seen enough of it. i agree with you, he didn't look uncomfortable but was that because his opponent didn't make him uncomfortable or because he wouldn't let his opponent?
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