With Rose Namajunas getting another crack at the UFC straw-weight crown this weekend, now seems as good a time as any to explore one of fighting’s more abstract concepts.
It is in switching seamlessly from the narrow, bladed stance to the spread out stance that Namajunas can combine her darting in and out and slips-to-counters so successfully. Where the first Joanna Jedrzejczyk fight was one dominated by Namajunas' quick closes from the outside, a large portion of the second bout was won with counter punching flurries from this more squared, slipping stance.
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