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Martial Arts => Mixed Martial Arts => Topic started by: buck on July 10, 2016, 10:36:31 AM
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There are a lot of fighters who haven’t been the same since the UFC brought in the USADA to do the drug testing. Hendricks is Exhibit #1. He doesn’t have anything left, which is insane because he was a killer 2-3 years ago. He was juiced to the gills.
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He had gills?
mspart
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Yes he doped so much that he became a fish.
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Yes he doped so much that he became a fish.
Good, that means I could pin him now.
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Like he was pinned in 2006?
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Like he was pinned in 2006?
Yes with Kessell as my ref too.
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What ever happened to Team Takedown?
They used to have a handful of studs when Hendricks was champ. Last time I checked their website, they had just one fighter on their roster: Jared Rosholt.
Could part of Hendricks' slide be due to new coaches/training partners/camps?
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He should retire before he gets badly hurt.
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There are a lot of fighters who haven’t been the same since the UFC brought in the USADA to do the drug testing. Hendricks is Exhibit #1. He doesn’t have anything left, which is insane because he was a killer 2-3 years ago. He was juiced to the gills.
I think his slide started even before USADA ... when they stopped allowing IVs for weight cuts. He cuts a lot of weight and needed those.
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If they went old school and had same-day weigh ins, I doubt he would have ever been a welterweight.
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He has a discipline problem. He let's himself go. A champion athlete should never look like he did between fights. He is like 5'8 and he walks around 220. He shouldn't be more than 195.
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He has a discipline problem. He let's himself go. A champion athlete should never look like he did between fights. He is like 5'8 and he walks around 220. He shouldn't be more than 195.
You're very gracious, I'd say 180-185. Even that's very big for a guy that height. Wrestlers build more muscle than boxer/strikers when they specify on that particular art and I think this hurts them in MMA as they have lots of lean tissue vs fat tissue. Years of wrestling build muscle, the scale does not differentiate between fat and muscle, a pound of muscle equals a pound of fat. This is especially true for guys who are heavily metamorphic like Hendricks. They need little or no resistance training, in reality they should train down and lose muscle (cut back/tailor lifting, directionally emphasize road work and training) and push skill development and the gas tank. To do this they need to train more, diet more strictly as they tend to gain size.
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Just saw the 2013 bout with GSP. The decision was a crock.
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Missed weight by two pounds today for a middleweight fight
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Punch drunk.
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Knocked out yet again.
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Great talent, no discipline. Talented guys get used to winning on their own terms and often can't change. As Mets said earlier he relied heavily on bagging to make weight. Absent that he has to diet and discipline himself, he lacks discipline to cut without diuretics. He's too fat amn has too much muscle. He needs more cardio/skills training, a diet, and little weight training, maybe hips and grip.
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He's already slurring his words.
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Was that before this fight or after this fight? Slurring words is not a good sign.
mspart