**Bout Analysis! Of The 2026 Fencing World-Championship Final**

Okay, so the 2026 Fencing World Championships are underway, and the Senior Men's Sabre just concluded. I know who won the event, but I haven't had a chance to check out the bout, so this will be my first time seeing how it actually went down. I'm not going to spoil who won, although probably people do know who won. Yeah, let's take a look. Oh man, that's actually, yeah, it's a nice first point. So, Pavel Gridorin's attack fails, and Doh manages to get a very nice parry, and then reposts. Sort of like parry one, even. Sort of looks like a parry one. Okay, so the claim is false start. I guess it's true, so ref yellow cards him. That all makes sense to me. All right, so unless the first attack failed, this should just be Pavel's point, because he has one attack, and yeah, Doh is searching here, or waiting for attack. No, but it seems like it's just the attack, sort of my opinion. Yeah, they agree, and hand signs mean it's just the attack, so the score is 1-1. Okay, well that's very clear attack no attack for Pavel. Attack no, doesn't hit, barely doesn't hit, and then, yeah, then Gridorin's attack is successful. Okay, well, very clear attack no from Doh, and then attack from Pavel, I think. So, yeah, here, yeah, this is attack no, and he's still searching. He manages to get a light on, but yeah, I don't know why he's fist pumping here. There's such, this is very, very, very clear attack no, in my opinion. Um, yeah, actually, sorry, somehow, somehow I missed it. Okay, so attack no, and then attack no, and attack. Uh, yeah, very nice distance management by Pavel, and barely doesn't escape, barely escapes, I should say, and yeah, his attack is too strong. Yeah, the timing in the distance is actually incredible. Yeah, Pavel's kind of just running him over, at least for now. Yeah, it's always risky to have your blade down like that, because there's some risk you'll get timed out, but I guess he wasn't that afraid here. Yeah, he just escapes, and yeah, you see the blade down, and you can complete, complete low, while taking advantage of his lone arms. Attack no, oh, counterattack closeout. Yeah, the preparation was wrong. Yeah, so when your opponent has their blade in your face like that, you probably shouldn't just charge in. Yeah, Pavel punishes the incorrect preparation on the attack. His distance management is incredible. Um, wait, sorry, I need to go back to understand why this isn't his point. So, what did he do wrong? So, attack no, he has the attack here. Um, what, what happened? I don't know, maybe he caught the blade or something. Don't fully understand it, just seems like attack counterattack to me for Pavel, but maybe we'll see somewhere around here. Oh, yeah, that's prise de fer. I feel like here in the U.S., they would say prise de fer no, because, um, Doh took an extra step back, but, uh, yeah, I kind of like that. Pavel made a mistake, his blade was caught, so, um, Doh was punished appropriately. Um, okay, I was talking over this, this last point, um, oh, I guess it's just parry repost, yeah. That's why it's clear that Pavel's kind of feeling himself. I would be, too, if I were in the, uh, fencing world championship up 8-2 in the final. It's totally fair. Yeah, parry repost for me is... Yeah. Okay, let's skip, let's skip over this one. Okay, the original video also agrees that we probably should skip. I'll post a link to the original video in the description. Oh, this is very, like, even one-lighted, and it's very clear parry repost, and, yeah, nice action by Pavel. If your opponent is just attacking you off the line, defensive actions are going to crush. Uh, Doh has attacked off the line in almost every point. Yeah, attack composé by, by Pavel, and, uh, Doh has attacked off the line in almost every point. Yeah, Doh goes for the parry too early. Searches for the parry, Pavel just changes lines. Yeah, this one, this one is a little, yeah, uh, so if you know that your opponent is, is blocking a lot of your attacks, right, with their blade, or they're parrying you a lot, it does make sense to go indirect, and Doh had, Doh did just go indirect here, right? So, this one's attack null by Pavel, and at the end, you got attack composé, or indirect attack, so that all makes a lot of sense. Yeah, goes underneath the arm. Nice point by Doh. He still needs to make up a lot of ground. Ooh, very nice attack in preparation. Oh, that, that's a very clean, clean point. Yeah, he waits, and he watches. He sees Pavel's not ready, and, yeah, just attack. Attack in preparation. Punishing Pavel for holding back his action. Ooh, this is just attack, uh, Pavel, I think. Yeah, he just commits more. Doh's hedging his bets. Oh, also, he might just be first, so, just everything. Well, yeah, he, Pavel really got got here. Yeah, that's a nice, nice plunge. This one's a nice attack. Attack. Yeah, plunging in the middle is risky, because, uh, refs are very likely to call, um, attack, attack in prep for your opponent, but, or attack on your preparation. Um, but, uh, you are full committing, so you're very likely to get the attack if they don't manage to find the prep. That one looks, like, simultaneous to me. I wouldn't give that to anybody. Um, yeah, okay, they, like, randomly give it to Doh, I guess, because they feel bad for him. Uh, I think everybody can relate to this, but sometimes, you know, as refs, uh, well, they probably don't do this at the international level, but they're like, oh, yeah, uh, this guy's behind now, whatever, coin flip goes to him. I don't know. All right, so, Pavel gets red carded here for a false start. It's every bout I've watched Pavel offense, he gets carded at least once, so, probably should work on that. Pole, okay, I think that's definitely Gredoran, Gredoran's. Yeah, Doh's hand's back. So, attack in preparation, I think. Yeah, and the ref stays with his original call. Totally agree with. Still, it's not over by any means. Man, his ability to escape direct attacks is insane. Okay, so this one, I actually don't know. It could be called as a line. Uh, the question is, was it set up in time, and was his hand broken, right? Did it stay in line? Uh, he didn't hit with the tip of the blade, so I don't think this should count. Yeah, it's just attack. He didn't run, Pavel did not run into the tip of the hand, so the, uh, sorry, the tip of the sword, which is why it should be counted as his attack. Attack, no? Attack. Yeah, very nice action by Pavel. I mean, nothing too special, but just nice fencing. Uh, yeah, direct attack, and Doh didn't manage to escape. He, yeah, just hedged his bets a little too long and got caught. Well, Pavel, uh, Greduin is the world champion, so, uh, congrats to Pavel. The bout was, you know, kind of, kind of interesting. Uh, there were some, there were some fun moments in there. Uh, I do like bouts where I more or less agree with the ref's decision on every point. Uh, probably the most controversial point was the, uh, the moment where, uh, Pavel's attack failed because of Prieze de Fer, so the opponent, like, caught his blade. Was it, was it here somewhere? No, this wasn't. Um, there was one, one of these, one of these points, uh, Doh managed to, to get it on, get the defense. Uh, yeah, I think this was, yeah, this was, this was the one. So, here, Prieze, uh, well, that looks like a parry, if anything, so, no, this, this was not, this was not the point. This was, uh, Pavel's nice counterattack closeout, so this wasn't it. Was this the point? Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this was the point. Okay, so, this was the most controversial point of the match, where he hits, but he steps back. Now, he recovers and then immediately goes, and I like the way that they're ruling this action. I think that if you, you should, you should give some credit to, or sorry, you should be a little bit more lenient towards defense because the attack is so strong. Um, so, Prieze de Fer changing right of way, it makes sense, right? Like, if you're, if you let your opponent hit your blade, that's probably a mistake, so your attack should be over. Um, but other than that, other than that point, I think every point was pretty clear. Uh, there was a coin flip point somewhere in there that went Do's way. Uh, I don't think there were any coin flip points that went Pavel's way, so, yeah, very well deserved. Um, our world champion gets carded a lot, but, uh, yeah, he still fences really well, and, uh, uh, that's, that's all that we can really ask for, right? Our, our world champion. Very, very strong fencer. Fences great. Congratulations to Pavel. All right, hopefully you enjoyed this video, and I will see you all next time. Bye!