Comments Thread For: Jai Opetaia reveals 'complacency' after suffering facial injury

[SouthpawRight]

Buff Guy Jai loves his long backhand to the body

Briedis answered with counter rear upper

[dan_cov]

Other than the jacked jaw handed to him by Briedis, was the Cinkara overhand the worst amount of trouble Opetai has ever faced? I'm trying to remember if he's ever been in serious trouble. Google says no. Is Google wrong?

He was rocked to his boots by David Nyika and shook up a good few times in that one.

[dan_cov]

I don't think his chin is bad at all its more he has very predictable tendencies and is constantly stepping in far too aggressively with his front foot & having his upper body squared up, he telegraphs just about everything. There are real holes that often leave him horribly exposed.
I also feel his punch selection is rather limited. He just appears more skilled than he is due to a load of pointless amateurish bouncing on the balls of his feet and jockeying with his lead hand but when you break him down I'd say he had limitations even offensively. Its the same things repeated.

He's fast, explosive, powerful but he has some very bad tendencies he does in every fight and he gets away with an awful lot because of his firepower and aura but as we've seen even at a low level he's getting made to pay quite regularly.

[SouthpawRight]

I don't think his chin is bad at all its more he has very predictable tendencies and is constantly stepping in far too aggressively with his front foot & having his upper body squared up, he telegraphs just about everything. There are real holes that often leave him horribly exposed.
I also feel his punch selection is rather limited. He just appears more skilled than he is due to a load of pointless amateurish bouncing on the balls of his feet and jockeying with his lead hand but when you break him down I'd say he had limitations even offensively. Its the same things repeated.

He's fast, explosive, powerful but he has some very bad tendencies he does in every fight and he gets away with an awful lot because of his firepower and aura but as we've seen even at a low level he's getting made to pay quite regularly.

train in the US is smart move for fighters from countries that aren’t known for boxing

Access to higher level sparring will push them into becoming better