Mat Fraser On Overcoming Pressure To Win His Fourth CrossFit Games Title 

Love interviews with Mat. He’s so honest. He doesn’t give cookie cut answers.

I love his honesty and pragmatism. Doesn't give a fuck but also doesn't want to speak out of turn. Him saying that some movements are valued more than others depending on which day they land on made a lot of sense. The scoring system should be changed.

Mat's interviewing skills have improved dramatically in the last year. I think the time with Shane and Tia has helped him come out of the pain cave and enjoy the experience a little more than training solo in his basement. His answers are consistent across interviews and he seems much more relaxed. I also think the sanctionals has helped him deal with media and helped him prep for questions.

I think it was Training Think Tank that had a very casual video about points and maybe changing how we do the scoring system in the games. To Matt's point of beating Noah by a whole minute but only gaining 10 points, should Dave be looking into a different way to score events? One thing TTT mentioned was rewarding more based on what was done. So if Matt wins by a minute as opposed to a much closer margin maybe he should be rewarded more. Because we're testing fitness, if both guys finish neck and neck, their fitness is pretty close together. Is there a way to reward "outstanding" performances more? Maybe a percentage based points system across the whole field? I'd like to hear some of your thoughts Armen on the points system and if we need to change it to more accurately depict fitness.

Probably the essential difference between Mat and the rest of the elite athletes is that he swings for the fences in every workout. He wants to win them all. It’s not a positive mental attitude and self-belief things that I’m sure all the athletes want to win and “believe” they can. This is different. Mat actually can. No one else can actually win every event. Mat can literally win everything. It’s unbelievable. 🤙

basically Matt says don't bitch just work!!! HWPO

Armen, did you get any interviews with Noah?

Cutting the field was designed to create that pressure on the leaders like Mat and Tia but force 2nd and 3rd to be a battle also.

Congratulations on another great interview. Well done Matt a well deserved victory

Matt Frasier is from New England. I never stopped cheering for him! #biggerthantombrady

This is my favourite interview with MF post games. Real questions finding out the things we don’t normally get to hear from him, great job Armen!!

Maybe if they increase that paycheck money we could see a Froning vs Fraser

Thanks for all your videos, Armen!

How many fckng sips you're gonna keep taking man. Leave the shaker alone for God sake

You're up pretty early Armen, can't sleep either?? Still buzzing about the games and the whirlwind that was your life for the past week?

I love all the competitions but have always been curious what the top 3 would look like in every weight division IF there were a meet that was based on weight.

Here's a few questions? What does Crossfit HQ think of the way this years games was run? Will next year be the same?

I love that he is talking about the scoring system. The scoring in CF has been mathematically terrible at telling the story of what happened on the field of play for a long time. (I feel it was never good). It doesn't reward the margin of victory. Years ago I actually emailed back and forth with Tony Budding (old school CF guy at a high level of the early games) on a method that I feel would be better. This is from almost 5 years ago, but the idea would still work. I think it would be a MUCH better way to score the athletes. Applies even more when it is down to only 10 of them. *this "open letter" was written back in 2014: blog.lex-artis.net/post/77935995387/an-open-letter-regarding-scoring-and-crossfit?fbclid=IwAR0S39xCYXEKsX0oRH5AkI0ud0Lp8Re5WkrOPKOdXrGOo-sgbmPCBdaO3sk

what shirt size do you think mat fraser wears?

Your the best no Mather what format,if the other train half way it’s there problème

Yo is Armen huge or is he just out angling Matt?

Great job Armen!

Great interview man 👍🏻

I would love to see rich and Matt in 2020 CrossFit games battling for that 5th title...

Did you get to interview Katrin?

Has anyone asked him about the ruck? Seen three interviews and nothing. It had to be motivation when people were calling him a cheater. Not judging the situation either way. He was hit with a penalty and you move on but people were so quick to turn on him including some of the media. Would love to hear his opinion on the entire situation.

I appreciate Mat's perspective as far as the games format - he'll follow the rules, whatever they end up being - but for him to say he has no input and no weight over what the games could be is a bit disingenuous. The most decorated man in the sport can't have any impact on what Dave Castro decides to do in the future? I highly doubt that.

I'm just happy I'm same height, same race, same hair with same kinda beard with Matt YES!

He could have been more gracious when asked “why was this year so close?” He could have said “it was a combination of things INCLUDING the fact that Noah brought it”.

Mat not recognizing that Noah realized he was in second on the pegboard and that all he had to do was stay second. He acts like Noah wouldn't have sped up had there been other times. Guy really doesn't want to give Noah any credit and it is a bad look.

I was cheering for Mat. I really wanted to see him tie Rich's record. Tia learned from Mat and just blew away the competition. Unfortunately, Mat learned from Tia and just barely squeaked by. Not sure if this training together is beneficial to Mat.