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Soulbringer320
15-01-2014, 03:36
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It's unsettling how quickly things can change in professional sports, particularly in a realm as visceral and unforgiving as mixed martial arts. In nearly two full decades of fighting, a period of time that spanned 39 official contests and god knows how many unofficial ones, Josh Barnett (http://www.mmafighting.com/fighter/409/josh-barnett) had only been truly knocked out twice, and never before the seven-minute mark.
But when Travis Browne (http://www.mmafighting.com/fighter/20/travis-browne) brutally shrunk that mark down to a mere 60 seconds at UFC 168 (http://www.mmafighting.com/fight-card/566/ufc-168-weidman-vs-silva), derailing Barnett's title fast track with a stunning hailstorm of elbows, even Barnett, the most grizzled of veterans, couldn't explain exactly what happened.

"Honestly, it wasn't about what went wrong. Sometimes you just don't appear, man," Barnett said on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour. "After 17 years, I can't say that I've had tougher nights, or you've had nights were you didn't perform as well as you'd like to. But this was the only time I'd ever had where it was just... I just didn't show up at all.
"I really feel like I didn't even have a fight. Me, ‘the Warmaster,' Josh Barnett, he didn't show up. Some other guy walked into the ring and sort of piddled around a little bit., but that's not me, and it was very strange. But I figure after being in so many fights and being through this whole process for so long, it's really not too surprising that it could happen."
Although the abrupt and violent end to the fight was surprising, Barnett was not the first victim to such an attack. Gabriel Gonzaga (http://www.mmafighting.com/fighter/25/gabriel-gonzaga) felt his own consciousness ripped away by a salvo of elbows to the head from Browne last April. Afterward Gonzaga appealed the loss, claiming that the technique was illegal.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission ultimately denied Gonzaga's appeal, but for his part, Barnett doesn't share Gonzaga's feelings of concern.

"They looked questionable, but at the same time, I'm an old-school guy. I figure, if people are going to be teetering on the edge so much, might as well just let it all be legal anyway," Barnett said. "Soccer kicks, stomps, knees. I'd rather that, personally, than have all these really near-arbitrary rules about the location of an elbow and where it should hit, what angle it has to be. It's just kind of ridiculous. I'd do the same (to Browne), so that's the way it is, and you've got to work within that system."
Former UFC (http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/mma.cfm?go=news.search&phrase=UFC) heavyweight champion Josh Barnett (http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/f/8286185FC8D231A9/Josh-Barnett/) appeared recently on Ariel Helwani's The MMA Hour, and discussed what happened the last fight vs. Travis Browne, and detailed his 12 step program to return to dominance.
"Sometimes you just don't appear, man," said Barnett as transcribed by MMAFighting. "After 17 years, I can't say that I've had tougher nights, or you've had nights were you didn't perform as well as you'd like to. But this was the only time I'd ever had where it was just... I just didn't show up at all.
"After 17 years, you just can't do everything the way the way you used to. I mean, you can to a degree, but you have to make changes."


Step 1: Remove outside distractions, focus solely on fighting
Step 2: Move camp away from home, narrow focus, remove convenience
Step 3: Pre-camp harder
Step 4: Increase flexibility
Step 5: Work more on weaknesses
Step 6: Spend more time on recovery
Step 7: Work on learning a new language
Step 8: Kill
Step 9: Kill!
Step 10: KILL
Step 11: Kill, KILL, KILL, KILL, kill, kill, KILL, KILL, kill, KILL
Step 12: KILL!
"I still want to fight," said Barnett, 36. "Even if I thought to myself, I want to retire. Well, how are you going to retire now? There's no way I could stop fighting after that. I felt a lot of humiliation and just regret. I just couldn't sit with that. There's all the fans that believe in me, all my coaches, all my friends and family.
"I couldn't ever let anything end like that. There's no way. I know that I have so much more to give, and I'm so much better than that, make sure to keep from any repeat appearances of that kind of crap, and go out there and do what I'm supposed to do, the way that I'm supposed to."

Kemal
15-01-2014, 07:14
Nou, t zijn 7 stappen, het opschrijven is hem iig gelukt, nu de uitvoering nog.. we zullen zien.

Leventdepevent
15-01-2014, 08:47
hij moet wat, in zn laatste partij kreeg ie een afstraffing