Dies und Das aus der Welt der UFC

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UFC Kommentator Joe Rogan hat seinem Freund und UFC Fighter Brendan Schaub vor Hirnschaeden gewarnt wenn er weiter kaempft. Zuletzt wurde der 31 jaehrige Schaub erneut ausgeknockt bei UFC 181 gegen Travis Browne. Rogan sagte direkt das Schaub nicht die Qualitaet haette auf dem Niveau:

“As I’m watching that fight, there are a lot of things that concern me. You were lunging with your punches instead of getting there with your footwork. You were really reaching and loading up. You looked very stiff, you didn’t look fluid, and you just didn’t look good. You didn’t look like you were well-prepared. Your movement just didn’t look like an elite fighter’s movement. What you were doing was very stiff. It was very stiff and there was a lot of apprehension in your movement.

There’s a bridge between you and the very best guys in the world, and I don’t know if you can cross that bridge. That’s the reality of life. If you look at your performances inside the octagon – not what you think you’re capable of or you know you’re capable of at your best – if you have to judge it by just your performances inside the octagon. … You’ve had good fights, you’re a very good fighter. That’s not what the issue is.

The issue is: Can you become a champion? If you can’t become a champion, are you comfortable with getting knocked out three or four more times over the next five or six years? That is a possibility. It might not happen. You might be OK, but it also might happen. It might happen two fights in a row.

You’re a sharp dude, and I know you know if you keep going, (brain damage) is coming, there’s no way around that. The reality of your skillset and where you’re at now, I don’t see you beating the elite guys. I don’t see you beating Cain Velasquez, I don’t see you beating Junior Dos Santos, I don’t see you beating Fabricio Werdum. You came into fighting fairly late in life, you’re a good athlete, you’re a strong guy, you’re a big guy and you can do lots of things because of that.

You’re very dedicated and disciplined, but there’s a reality to fluidity of movement, of mechanical efficiency of movement that happens when you get a guy who’s trained his whole life at a certain aspect of MMA. There’s fluidity to their movement that you don’t really have. It’s not that you don’t try hard, it’s not that you’re not dedicated, it’s not that you’re not disciplined or intelligent, but there’s just s–t people can do that you can’t do.”


Schaub antwortete daraufhin:
“Joe, I think it’s easy for you to sit there with whatever, $12 million in the bank and say, ‘Oh, you need to stop doing this`. It’s easier to say that. When you’re set and you don’t come from that background and go home to your wife and kids and $6 million mansion and say, ‘Stop doing this and do podcasts for the next 40 years.'

I’m 100 percent going to fight again. Two years, four more fights and maybe a cut down to 205. I walk around at 250 with like planning 250. Metamoris I went down to 225. I won’t make any decisions until January.”


Und Rogan fuegte an:
“This is hard for me to say, because I love you as a friend. This is just a reality. This sucks for you. It’s hard to hear. It sucks to say it. I don’t like it coming out of my mouth and the reason is because I love you as a human being.

If 20 years from now you can’t fight, when can you stop? Can you stop in 10 years, five years, two years – it’s coming. The end is coming. It’s the reality of being a demolition derby car, and that’s what you are when you’re an MMA fighter.”


Selten das ein Kommentator so offen mit einem Fighter spricht, aber Rogan hat Recht.