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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3893653, member: 289"] I watched the somewhat similar Vasiliy Lomachenko - Masayoshi Nakatani and Gervonta 'Tank' Davis - Mario Barrios fights. Both involved a smaller but more powerful and quicker man against a taller fighters with a greater reach. Both fights were full of action and ended with the smaller man scoring a knockout. There was one difference I saw. In naval warfare there's a strategy called "crossing the T": [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_T']Crossing the T - Wikipedia[/URL] It involves positioning your ship or fleet across the bow of the other ship or lead ship. the advancing fleet can only fire at you with their front guns while you can fire broadsides at them, with the shots coming from different angles. Your opponent can only fight vertically but you get to fight him horizontally. Both Nakatani and Barrios were classic vertical fighters: getting their power from their back foot, turned at an angle to brace it, shooting out long jabs and then sending straight rights at the opponent, with an occasional hook or uppercut: all right down the pipe. Lomachencko countered this with lateral movements or a backward step, causing Nakatani to constantly reach, trying to find him, and leave himself open for counter-punches. Loma would time those punches and then step in to deliver hard blows from different angles. Admiral Nelson would have admired it. The punishment Nakatini added up until finally the referee stopped the fight in the 9th round. Davis faced the same problem vs. Barrios: how to get inside the longer reach of the taller man. he used very little horizonal movement, simply trying to time his lunges. In the early rounds he didn't even do that. I gave Barrios 4 of the first six rounds with one even. But then the Tank became more of a tank and started to take a few to get a few and his greater power forced Barrios backwards. barrios tried to make up for his inferior power with the volume of punches, throw combinations but but found it hard to reverse the tide. Then in round 8 Davis landed a hook to the temple and downed him. he got a second knockdown almost immediately and it looked like the fight was about to end. But Barrios somehow rallied with some combinations, enough to keep Davis off of him, and survived the round. Davis seemed to take the next round off and Barrios even staggered him at one point with a left hook of his own, his best punch of the fight. Now it became a brawl with Davis going for the knockout but barrios making sure to answer with a flurry every time he scored. But Davis' punches seemed to be having more of an impact and in the 11th round, Davis landed an uppercut to the chest that caused Barrios to collapse to the canvas. He got up but went down again and the ref stopped it, with no argument from Barrios or his corner. I couldn't help but wondered what a Lomachenko- Davis fight would be like. I think it would be won by the fighter who "crossed the T". [/QUOTE]

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