This is one of the big reasons I was ranting about Bo from the start. He was never doing any of the things he should have been doing except the podcasts and shit talk.
I think people thought I was just hating, but I knew where he was going.
Even Aaron Brooks’ brother who is fighting doesn’t even train there. There are real coaches not far from him but he wanted to open his own gym.
I thought people were being overly harsh considering his limited experience. Though I understand the criticism because of the expectations and the things he said.
I can’t believe he’s not training at one of the best gyms in the world getting invaluable experience from people that can hold him to the fire. Not very smart.
Well he just learned in this fight this is MMA not wrestling. The wrestling will only take him so far.
Okay so that’s why his development has been so slow. I saw the screen say “Penn State ATT” or some shit when they introduced him and I thought it was weird, had never heard of it.
See, it’s hard for me to understand how a D1 guy like Bo or Lesnar would do shit like this. You’ve already been incredibly successful doing one thing. What did you do in wrestling, just train with bums and/or never work on your weaknesses? Of course you didn’t. You got better every day. So I don’t understand these high level wrestlers that come into MMA and fail to work on the other aspects of the sport. They really expect to come in and dominate with their specialty and nothing else? They can’t be that dumb.
I think about this a lot.
That drive to do tough things and work really hard is something we usually think of like a personality trait. That’s how I used to think, but I don’t anymore. I think it’s like being in love at the start of a relationship. It’s an emotional state that you get into that naturally fades over time, and it’s hard to get back there, even though you logically know the steps because you’ve done it before.
It’s slippery and it’s very hard to maintain. And the conditions that put you in that state are often much different than the ones you find them in after a while. Bo isn’t in a room with better people than him beating him up everyday. He doesn’t feel like his fiscal future depends on how hard he tries to get good at fighting. Instead he’s got everyone telling him he’s a super prospect.
BJ is the classic MMA example of how someone can attain a level of greatness as a human being that they just eventually cannot maintain, for whatever reason. Time will tell if Bo can get there again.
Don’t underestimate how dumb and overconfident someone can be lol
Especially hard for a guy that isn’t a natural fighter like Bo. Take a guy like Dan Henderson. He probably never worked as hard at mma as he did at wrestling, but he was naturally gritty as fuck and a fighter. Bo is not. Bo needs to approach mma like a newb and be humble because he’s not a natural fighter.
Im omnipresent you varmint… does soneone need killin?
KOK Sighting
You are absolutely correct. The timing and precision of these top guys is something that unless you have felt it you cant understand. These top guys, especially seasoned strikers, are extremely fucking deadly… id get beat up in the amateurs if i tried fighting todays guys with my 1998 mma training.
Hope all is well homie. Your presence around here is missed.
Welcome back!
I bet a lot of them are simply looking for a payday. MMA has become THE professional sport for wrestling.
All the talk of wanting to be the best/champion is just marketing.