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Lajcik's Laws of Fighting #9: Disregard your opponent's reputation or ranking

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While it's certainly a mistake to underestimate a rival, it's equally important not to succumb to intimidation when facing an opponent with impressive credentials. As you develop and move up the pecking order as a fighter it's likely and completely desirable that you'll encounter a higher level of competition. You'll face fighters you've read about, seen on television, perhaps even those that you've admired and sought to emulate.

Listen, fighting a good opponent is difficult enough. Don't compound the difficulty by battling the opponent and his lofty reputation. Focusing excessively on your opponent's past accomplishments usually leads to one or more of the following responses:

1) You convince yourself you can't win, in which case you almost assuredly won't.

2) You convince yourself that you can only win by doing something extraordinary, so you attempt techniques you're not familiar with or force ill-timed or exaggerated techniques out of desperation. Or,

3) While in the fight you spend more time watching your opponent than fighting him. Enthralled with his reputed skill you watch and wonder what he's going to do next. Instead of making your opponent deal with you, you become entirely reactive or, worse, passive.

Take heart. Every true champion has reached his position by beating a champion. The process is no different for you. Rather than allowing a phantom factor like "reputation" influence the fight's outcome, remind yourself to fight your opponent's body, not his name. By doing so you'll avoid distraction and self-doubt and simply focus your every fiber on defeating the man in front of you.

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