I assume he's done that so many times before that he's confident enough he can pull it off without incident, he seemed to do that with little effort. You'd have to be a fool to try it if you were not 100% certain you could stick the landing.
Only a matter of time before someone gets hurt doing something like this. It looks good but I'd advise against it.
He ran to the post with the flip in mind just before the ref waived it off. Would been funny if he'd landed just as the ref called 'box on'
Really dangerous thing to do, especially when fatigued after a long fight. An athlete here in Dallas used to backflip after track events. One day his friends asked him randomly to do the backflip....he landed on his neck and fractured it. After years of treatment he now walks very poorly with a cane.
When Tank says he "grew up in the gym" he literally means he was housed, fed, socialized, and trained in the gym. There's some old clip of him as a kid doing this. He's done it thousands of times. When training was over the ring became the playground for those kids. Sticking the landing especially so close to the olympics is badass, yeah. Round 11 too. My p4p backflipper list is as follows: 1. Tank (big style points - high risk high reward style) 2. Loma (cartwheel flip is cool but he didn't stick the landing vs Rocky) 3. Teo (they're clean but it's the least risky)
Damn near everybody in the hood go from 2 hand, to 1 hand to no hand flips by the time they're like 8. It's second nature to just bust one out. No more dangerous than the match he was just in TBH.
What Joe Joyce doesn't make the cut with his Capoeira flip! Surely far harder for a 2m tall 265lbs man to do?
