Condit vs.Diaz: Why The Right Man Won
Sometime around 60AD, the civilized world lay prostrate beneath the
Roman Empire's ruthless sandal. Rome had conquered every enemy to every
point of the compass, not by the size of the army it deployed, but by
the science with which it approached battle. Republican Rome had the
world's first standing professional army, and developed military
strategy and tactics into an advanced art that repeatedly gave it the
edge over less-disciplined enemies.
However, in the Roman province we now call Britain, a massive
uprising was led by Boadicea, the legendary warrior queen of the Iceni.
Provoked into rebellion by the rape of her daughters and humiliation of
her people, she led her furious hordes on a rampage of looting and
murder, sacking major towns populated by Roman settlers. Unprepared for
the uprising, the Roman governor Suetonius had on hand an army of only a
few thousand men. On short notice, he hurried to London, a major Roman
settlement. Then word came: Boadicea was approaching, and she was hungry
for blood. What would Suetonius do?
Like Carlos Condit faced with the approach of the ruthless Barbarian Nick Diaz,
he retreated. Despite the derogatory opinion often held of retreating
generals, as a trained tactician Suetonius knew that retreat is not
necessarily an act of cowardice or a source of shame. Rather, it is
often the first step in winning a fight on your own terms. At this
point, it would seem that Boadicea had the initiative, forcing the Roman
into retreat. But a battle is not decided by who has what we might call
battlefield control. It is decided by the tally of bloodied corpses
when battle is finally joined. And battle was not yet joined.
Like Nick Diaz, Boadicea's fighting strategy was simple: she
overwhelmed her opponents with irresistible force. She marshaled every
able-bodied member of her tribe and advanced like a swarm of starving
locusts. After Suetonius' retreat, she overran London and visited
slaughter and destruction on the town. Her strategy of overwhelming
force and violent attack had prevailed again. High on victory, she set
her sights on driving the Romans out of Britain altogether. Like Diaz,
she was forcing the pace- but was she winning?
It would seem so. Suetonius gathered together the few Roman divisions
he could muster, but still had at his disposal only around 10,000 men.
Boadicea's fighting force however, reportedly numbered up to 230,000. If
Suetonius went head-on against her, he would be celebrated in history's
chronicles for his courage. He would also be mercilessly slaughtered.
So preferring life to glory, the wily general crafted a less
confrontational strategy that would turn Boadicea's strength and
aggression into a weakness.
First, he carefully chose his battle ground. He selected a gap in a
dense forest to be the site of the imminent showdown. This narrow
corridor formed a cul-de-sac that would make it impossible for Boadicea
to deploy her army on a wide front. The site was also sloping, meaning
that one army would have to be running uphill during the fight, while
the other would be running downhill. Then having set the stage, he lured
her into battle.
True to her wont, Boadicea rushed forward, her entire tribe in tow.
Lacking any kind of disciplined formation, she swarmed towards the
Romans. Suetonius then began a disciplined retreat, luring Boadicea into
the gap in the woods. Like Nick Diaz, Boadicea did what had always
worked: she attacked with the full measure of her fury. Positioned deep
in his gap in the woods, Suetonius was as calm and focused as Carlos
Condit as he waited for Boadicea to lose the battle.
And lose she did. Unable to swarm the Romans because of the narrow
field, her army presented a narrow front but long tail. Running uphill,
she was also working twice as hard as her adversaries and tired quickly.
Her characteristic brute force and aggression was completely
neutralized, and she found her army clinically decimated by the Romans,
who efficiently picked off her fighters with well-placed sword thrusts
under the guard. She was the aggressor, forcing the pace, but each Roman
sword thrust was like a Gary Condit leg kick, scoring patiently but
effectively.
After the first wave of Boadicea's attack was exhausted, the battle
displayed the dynamics of the Condit-Diaz fight at the start of the
third round. Gaining confidence, the Romans started to advance.
However, they did so in disciplined formation, maintaining a wedge that
cleaved Boadicea's frontline the way Condit's head kicks and clinical
punches cleaved Diaz's guard. Ironically, the size of Boadicea's army
prevented her from retreating, because the fighters behind blocked the
retreat of those dying at the front. Like Diaz, her natural aggressive
style meant that as the clinical punches landed, she had no defence: she
had never learned to retreat.
In the end, the Romans won the day and Boadicea passed into legend.
To this day, like Nick Diaz, she is celebrated for her courage,
fierceness and aggression in battle. But it was the wily General Condit,
who knew when to apply the tactical retreat and the clinical
counter-attack, who will go down on history's scorecard as the victor.
https://www.mmamania.com/2012/2/5/2772420/condit-vs-diaz-why-the-right-man-won
What the Little lady diaz' problem is, is that if you don't fight to his/her strengths the bitch calls you out as being a box. diaz sucks at wrestling, so if you wrestle her, you're a box. She likes to tee off on flat footed fighters who stand right in front of her, so if you show good footwork and work to avoid damage, you're a box
Carlos Condit DID NOT do a Kalib Starnes last night