American expert Luke Thomas calls not to draw conclusions from video clips of sparring Shavkat Rakhmonov (18-0) and Ian Garry (15-0), Sports.kz reports.
— Is it possible to extract anything from the footage of their sparring that we saw? – Not very much. Some people think that the same thing will happen in a fight as in sparring, that fighters will make the same decisions… But we don’t know for sure. One may decide to fight jiu-jitsu in the first round, another may choose to throw a jab. And both can fail: the fight can go in the wrong direction. It's not even a matter of whether you're Side A or Side B – either way, you need to be very, very careful. As for the sparring, it didn't look intense at all, so I'd…
