Opening card fight was an influencer that was 2-2-2 against a boxer from India that didn’t bother to do any conditioning for the fight.
I thought it was hilarious. Nunes had a solid enough grasp of basic defense. But he had no idea what the hell to do with Goyat, who had a weird style. And the second he started trying to sacrifice defense to push, he got punished. He was a one trick pony who wasn't remarkable at his one trick
I'll take "that was f***in' weird" for an opening fight any time. Gimme a circus as a little opening treat.
My favorite opener ever was for a local match where a guy had to drop and they used an emergency ringer on zero notice. Not only had this ringer clearly never boxed before, I'm not sure he ever did any kind of fighting outside of video games. His guard included raising his knee up to cover his torso like Sagat in Street Fighter 2. While throwing wild suicidal haymakers at random. It was hilarious. Took the real fighter over half the match to figure out what the hell to even do with the maniac. And the ringer had that look of a guy who is homeless by choice, for the experience of it, which explains how he somehow got it in his head to bullshit his way into that spot.
The announcers were so angry, but it was comedy
