Maybe I'm missing something?
That sideways thing at about 4:30 where he says "I'm dead"- is that a black-out, or pilot wound maybe?
The beginning part of the fight looks good, it's just that last part that almost looks like tossing in the towel until the F4U messes up and gets in a bad position... It looks less like "forcing the F4U to overshoot", and more like "I'm lucky the F4U overshot me". I felt like he had an opportunity to force some pressure on the F4U right around the time he cheered, by making a turn into him, but he didn't take it...
I dunno...