Welcome to my blog where I bring you in-depth concepts and breakdowns of technical MMA skills with a primary focus on stand up. With my training experience and attention to detail, I do my best to bring you thorough breakdowns of strategy and technique. I’ve received lots of great feedback from various MMA communities and channels where fighters and fans have enjoyed my content, so I hope you enjoy it too.
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.”
– Bruce Lee
Contact email: strikingthoughtscontact@gmail.com
Current update 12/13/21: I’m currently working on the analysis of Jose Aldo vs. Rob Font. It’s going to take me a while to finish since I’m experimenting with a different breakdown style. Then I’ll be moving to study Dominick Cruz’s performance against Pedro to decide if I want to break it down.
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Article breakdowns with gif illustrations. PLEASE NOTE: all these articles bring you back to my old WordPress page where I’ve stored the analysis. All updated content will be back on here.
KenanK TV, the Youtuber who Plagiarized my Breakdown Analysis
- Plagiarism is not ok and not worth it. You’ll stain your credibility and reputation. It is unethical to take other people’s analysis work and pass it off as your own.
- Reddit post to the community about the issue I don’t enjoy addressing these kinds of issues but I won’t shy away from confronting these actions. I would hope that people do the right thing and put in the effort to produce the work based on their own merits.
Breakdown list of all my work
- Dominick Cruz: Critical Adjustments to His WILD Fighting Style! Tactics & Breakdown vs. Casey Kenney
- Top 5 Signature Tactics of TJ Dillashaw (High-level Footwork Secrets explained)
- These Critical Adjustments Allowed Dustin Poirier to Finally Defeat Conor McGregor! (Breakdown)
- A Fighting Style Guide of Israel “The Last Stylebender” Adesanya (Updated guide)
- Max Holloway vs. Alexander Volkanovski 2: The Crazy Growth in a Challenger
- Justin Gaethje vs. Tony Ferguson: When a Fearless Man Faced a Relentless Storm
- Max Holloway vs. Alexander Volkanovski: Signature Moves and The Story of Epic Battle
- Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega: The Beauty of Chaos (Technical breakdown)
- Israel “The Last Style Bender” Adesanya: The Art of subtlety (Technical fighting style breakdown)
- Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Guillermo Rigondeaux: How an Undefeated Puzzle Was solved (Technical Breakdown)
- Michael Bisping vs. George St. Pierre: The Show of Wisdom (Technical Breakdown)
- Cody Garbrandt vs. T.J. Dillashaw: The New King of the Bantamweights (Technical Breakdown)
- Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Rose Namajunas: Brief Technical Aftermath (Breakdown)
- Justin Gaethje vs. Michael Johnson: Fighting Styles and a Match up Clash (TECHNICAL Pre-Fight BREAKDOWN)
- Forum discussion (MMA Reddit), (TheMMACommunity)
- Gavin Tucker Vs. Sam Sicilia: The Arrival of an Interesting Prospect (Technical breakdown )
- Dominick Cruz vs. Cody Garbrandt: How Cody Won The Title (Technique Breakdown)
- Doo Ho Choi vs. Cub Swanson: A War of Boundless Heart (Fight Breakdown)
- CONOR MCGREGOR VS. EDDIE ALVAREZ: FIGHT BREAKDOWN OF THE NOTORIOUS LEFT HAND
- MICHAEL BISPING VS. DAN HENDERSON 2: EXPLORING THE TECHNICAL CRAFT (BREAKDOWN)
- Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz 2: Post Fight look at Technical Adjustments (skill breakdown)
- T.J. Dillashaw vs Raphael Assuncao 2: Changes since their first fight (Skill breakdown)
- JOSE ALDO VS FRANKIE EDGAR 2: POST FIGHT LOOK AT TECHNIQUE AND STYLE (BREAKDOWN)
- Stephen Thompson Vs Rory MacDonald: Post Fight Technique and Strategy (breakdown)
- Dominick Cruz vs Urijah Faber: Understanding Dominick’s Cruz’s fighting style and Footwork (Finished)
- Thomas Almeida vs Cody Garbrandt: A Look Into Their Fighting Styles
- Junior Dos Santos vs Ben Rothwell: Cigano’s Victory with Measured Boxing (Skill Breakdown)
- Conor McGregor vs Nate Diaz: Post Fight Technical Breakdown
- Conor McGregor vs Nate Diaz: How their Styles Clash
- Anderson Silva vs Michael Bisping: The Breakdown of Fighting Style and Creativity
- Why Fighters Should integrate kicks into their striking game
- Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson: Fighting Style Breakdown
- How Dominick Cruz Won Back the UFC Title (techniques)
- TJ Dillashaw vs Dominick Cruz: The Truth About Their Style Differences and Flaws
- How TJ Dillashaw Fights (Breakdown)
- How Dominick Cruz Fights (Breakdown)
- Nate Diaz vs Michael Johnson and the Stockon slap
- Overeem vs Dos Santos — The Growth of Overeem
- Jose Aldo vs Conor McGregor, The Keys To Victory
- Conor McGregor’s Fighting Style Breakdown
- Jose Aldo’s Fighting Style Breakdown
- My work aims to highlight the fighters’ craft to build an appreciation for their skills. These breakdowns are for educational purposes and aim to follow WordPress’ guidelines for fair use. I spend a lot of time studying fights on my own often watching them numerous times to gain various perspectives in fine detail. I study all the work myself from scratch so that I can give you my own unique perspective about fighters, so it takes me a while to cover matches. If you enjoy the work, it’s very much appreciated if you share with your fellow MMA enthusiast. This blog is a bit of a journey for me to not only teach but to also learn as well.
Short background: I picked up kickboxing around 2009 and migrated my focus between boxing and Muay Thai to develop a diverse sense of range, rhythm, footwork, etc. Now I’m spending more time training/exploring in MMA. It’s an ongoing process I’ll continue to enrich my martial arts journey. I tend to spend more time developing striking so that’s the domain I analyze most.
Current update
11/17/21: I’m currently studying the footage of Max Hollaway vs. Yair Rodriguez. There’s an interesting theme happening in this fight. I’m most likely going to cover this fight if things go rights. With another event coming this weekend, these past weeks have been real busty back to back.
11/7/2021: As of the moment, I’m working on the extra tactics of Petr Yan exclusively for this site. I’m also working on the fight between Justin Gaethje vs. Michael Chandler to analyze the tactics used. Feel free to hit me up in my email with any questions regarding that fight and I might be able to address it in the breakdown.