Song Yadong: ''We Had Been Working on That Uppercut, We Knew He Was Going to Shoot from the Left Side!''

 

 

 

 

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Song Yadong has revealed that his spectacular knockout victory over Umar Nurmagomedov was no accident. The Chinese bantamweight star used a perfectly timed uppercut to stop his opponent, a move he had been practicing intensely throughout his entire training camp.

According to Song, his team correctly predicted how Nurmagomedov would attack. His boxing coach, Rudy Hernandez, explicitly told him before the fight that the uppercut would bring him the knockout victory. The coaches noticed that Nurmagomedov regularly leaned and shot for takedowns from the left side, leaving an opening for the powerful counterstrike. Song executed the game plan flawlessly when the moment arrived, turning their detailed film study into a massive career victory.