“I need you to reset, alright? Let’s start this over. Let’s start moving forward, get back on that jab. The low kick is there as well, alright? But we gotta start putting some combinations together. You gotta get him to open up, alright? Soon as he opens up the shots gonna be there for you, but you gotta start attacking. Alright? Feint more, too.”
Such were the words trainer Din Thomas gave to Tyron Woodley last year, following a disastrous first round against Gilbert Burns. The said round was the sixth straight in a skid that today extends to 15.