Quote Originally Posted by yoitsdan
Brian is super talented but in the ring he always looks extremely vunerable, I'm not that surprised to be honest. Some fighters, especially champions have an aura of invincibility around them when they fight lesser opposition, Brian is definitly not one of those guys.
On the contrary, I think he suffered from a syndrome common among champions, which I'll call "the defensive syndrome" (hey, it's mine so don't anyone dare to claim it!) where a champion thinks "I'm on the top so the only place to go is down." Here, the champion's mind is preoccupied with the 'defense' of his crown (belt), in direct contrast to that of the challenger's where he is out to get the crown. This kind of excessively defensive attitude makes him forget that he is out there in the ring to beat his opponent, not just to defend himself against him, as if he is holding his crown under his belly and his opponent trying hard to pry it out from him. When the champion loses his aggressiveness and becomes too defensive, that's a clear sign of the sydrome. Did that make sense, I hope it did.