Ultimate fighter IV - step III.... Cropping the living daylight out of it!

What appeared to be a good design at first became somewhat of an impasse...

... which left me no choice but to rely on a "less mature" approach to design: the canvas went from 36 square inches down to 30! In a way, the "aggressor" was taking away too much from the central struggling fighter... besides producing an evident disbalance in composition.