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Man, I don't understand Cody's strategy.
Both against Cruz and in his first fight with Dillishaw (which, if anyone remembers, TJ was totally saved by the bell at the end of round 1 and Cody was outclassing him completely. Cody used his vastly superior boxing to the round. His footwork was better, but most importantly his punches were tighter, quicker, and in combinations. Against TJ in fight 1 he was just hot dogging too much because he felt like he was in control.
Fast forward to this fight, and Cody is tossing those haymaker punches instead of the crisp tight shots he was throwing in the first fight. Instead it was TJ who had the quicker tighter shots, and he was winning the exchanges.
All Cody had to do was tone down the hot dogging, and instead it's like he decided to fight more like TJ.. with those kinda whingeing wide punches.
I don't get it. Looks like losing to TJ caused him to change up what was making him successful. Guys often over-correct after losses, and sometimes they never rediscover what made them successful in the first place.
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