Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31529160-20170811161845/@comment-32783267-20170816003900

GBL1111 wrote:

Nyanimations wrote:

... I'm also an admirer or Cruz and his game-changing footwork (TJ owned him). Do you mean Cody? Or did you feel TJ got cheated on that split decision? I thought TJ vs Cruz was a super close fight. I was rooting for TJ but saw it going either way with the judges. But if the champ gets the benefit of the doubt it should have been TJ... then again Dom was champ and lost it to injury, not defeat. Sorry. I phrased the line in a confusing way. What I want to say was that, Team Alpha Males and Dom's feud against each other resulted in TJ having to stand in as Dom in spaarring sections at TAM and emulated his footwork. I'm not saying TJ didn't come up with his own idea, but the emulation of Dom's footwork is part of the reason he wrecked Barao twice and broke that dude since then.

Of course, despite that TJ and Dom's footwork has stylistic differences (I noticed them from BJJScout Dom's studies). Also, have you heard JRE podcast with Cruz in it? Yeah, apparently he have been plagued with injuries since recovering from triple ACL, notably Feet problems(can't spell plantar fas....) as of his last fight. But like a champ, Cruz gave no excuses.

Yeah, I forgot to take out -ed from 'owned'. I meant to say TJ owns Dom a favor for the footwork. Do you think Dom's feet problems affected his performance against Cody?