Every year, you hope that boxing can provide some of the best fights possible. I think 2018 was one of the better years for boxing. A lot of good matchups were made, and a lot of tickets were sold.
Fights are all about styles and matchups.
You make mental notes. You're a coach, so you make mental notes from matchups, to who steps up in the playoffs to who doesn't, different types of players.
I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.
I don't worry about individual matchups.
Whether it's third down, man vs. man or red zone, a lot of the game comes down to one-on-one matchups.
It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
I want superfights, to challenge other opponents.
There are a lot of details you have to work out when you're talking about fighters competing twice in one night.
Defense is all about if you want to play or not, if you really take matchups personal. A lot of guys don't. Once again, that's the league that we're in. That's not the league that used to be.
I want to attack matchups on special teams.
You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
Guys like Samoa Joe, no matter what it's been, what promotion, every time we are in the ring there is such an easy storytelling and psychology in there. We always had good matchups.
