@@evanfogherty5161 Tony’s impressive. But blowing out a knee and having a spinal injury that literally leads to being wheelchair-bound are completely different leagues.
Jiri also climbed the mountain Matterhorn and forgot his sleeping bag/ mat so he had to lay on his bagpack and do breathing exercises all night to not die from hypothermia. Also did a basic 1-2 combo for 12h straight and later 24h straight. Jiri is fucking nuts!
Just to be clear, it wasn't only this. I read the excerpt of Spider book where he talks about this, Cordeiro wasn't only prohibiting Spider from teaching, but was using a lot of intimidation tactics and threatening people who had taken his classes. And this last part is totally believable and I'm saying as someone who's living in Curitiba.
Devin Johnson getting injured that bad is absolutely horrible and sad, but him working so hard he started getting some feeling back is absolutely amazing! extremely inspiring
One of my training buddies trained with all-stars in Sweden for a couple of months. The stories he told about the intensity in that gym is insane. It’s kill or be killed every single day. Guys get knocked out all the time, then sweep you back up to your feet for a couple more rounds
Watch lethwei, guys get flatlined and theyr team is given 5 minutes to wake them up any way they can bite on the ears all sorts if theyr revived within the 5 mins they continue if they want
I am 60 and training was way, way different back in the day. Today we know that what we did often resulted in leaving our best fight in he gym. Wrestling was always insane and still is plagued by overtraining today. We used to have 7-8 year olds traveling all over the country to compete, cutting weight the whole time. I held my son back from hard core competition until high school, and he went 20 and 4 his first year (as a freshmen). Cutting weight back then meant not eating, sauna, and running miles in a rubber suit. My first BJJ school was made up of wrestlers, and going 70% like they do today (you actually learn better at 70%) was an absolutely foreign concept. The Soviets are tough, but they often don't start their kids until they are 10. Years ago I boxed in the D'Amatto camp, my coach was Peter Allendo (Mike Tyson's stablemate, he lived in the room next to Mike at Cus' place) and we ALWAYS spared hard, at least 8-10 rounds every time we trained. Poor Peter had serious pugilistic dementia by the time he was 40. I spoke with one of he Kings MMA guys (Paul Song) who prepped Junior Dos Santos, and Santos lost one of his fights because he was in way too many gym wars and came into the fight spent. Another common mistake we use to make is not taking rest days, you need at least one, sometimes 2 full rest days per week to recover if training at maximum intensity, and the human body simply cannot recover from 4 hours plus training a day. This lesson has also been applied to my other sport, bodybuilding. That is one of the main things that drugs (steroids) do is they enable you to recover from long, brutal training sessions. MMA fighters don't use them to get big, they use them to recover. Modern trainers and science have taught us that yes, we must train and condition hard, but recovery is critical. I have my athletes back off....way off at least 7-8 days before competition day. You also want to limit your sparring. sparring 10 plus rounds everyday will leave you beat up come fight day if you don't back off and recover sufficiently.
Dudes I love all these stories. It was so cool in the early 2000s when you had to belive every rumor or story about fighters because there was only very little footage.
I've yet to run into a bar that doesn't carry it since 2018. A lot of people are apparently. It's not that bad, not any worse than any other Whiskey lmao
@@reservoirfrogs2177 Carry it yes. Doesn't mean they sell it. Personally I didn't like it at all, wouldn't even use it as a mixer but then again I really like Crown Royal which whisky drinkers all over tell me is cheap and terrible so what the hell do I know.
@@campbellsoup93 I am only a noob myself when it comes to whiskey, but I would agree with them that Crown Royal is awful, and so do the friends that taught me one or two things about whiskey. And without looking up sales, I'm sure Proper12 does just fine based on Conor's name value alone. He's made a lot of money on it
@@Dukeflyhawker That's fair. It's not the best whisky I've ever had, not by a long shot but I still like it. Plus, it's fairly inexpensive and I'm very cheap.
Lmao, if you want a good laugh you should look up Tito saying nonsense compilations🤣🤣 even if you've already seen them all, don't care, it never gets old.
@@giga_chad9 and I've often defended MMA fighters' intelligence, and athletes in general in a broader sense, because a lot of people have this false perception of them all being dumb brutes. But most elite athletes are actually highly intelligent, because brute strength and athleticism isn't enough when you're competing against other people who also have tremendous strength and athleticism. You have to be smart and tactical too. Most of the time. If anyone brings up Tito, I have to concede and say yea fair enough, Tito is an idiot.
Rafeal Codeiro didn't know about Anderson getting a Shotgun until his book came out. They made up after the slap but he didn't know Silva had planned on Swiss Cheesing him until the book dropped. He was surprised and upset
training hours doesn't necessarily equate to training hard. The Danaher Death Squad guys in BJJ are famous for training *atleast* twice a day, seven days a week, and when they were up and comers did more like 3-5 sessions a day. But they say they simply just dont go hard every session, or everyday. So with Brandon Davis and Khamzat, they obviously train hard but they likely fluctuate the intensity
"Look at that! Look at whatever it is he's doing on screen right now!" That's pretty much what can be said of any moment Tony Ferguson is on camera, whether it's fight camp footage, interviews, or in his fights.
Amazing video but I can't believe you didn't put Prime Nick Diaz's training in this video. He was the first one to use cardio as a weapon and popularized it by being the first one to train in triathlons. He would spar a lot of rounds, run alot of miles and swim alot of miles as well. Man even completed an Ironman triathlon which is said to be one of the hardest.
To be faAaAair, Ikuhisa "Minowaman" Minowa was the actual first high level fighter to compete in triathlons as part of his training regiment, that was in the early 2000s, before he went to Brazil to train with the BTT... Also, French kickboxer and part-time MMArtist Jérôme Le Banner was also known for trying Triathlons early in his K1 career, late 90s/early 2000s... but to be faaaaair he admitted that he wasn't getting the best results, and was mostly doing it because it's a very popular sport in France (it's basically the birthplace of Triathlon, so lots of athletes from lots of different sports give it a shot at one point of the other)
I'm pretty sure there was more to Spider story than this. I read the excerpt of Spider book a long time ago where he wrote about this. IIRC Cordeiro wasn't only prohibiting Spider from teaching, but was doing a lot of intimidation tactics with some guys from Chute Boxe and threatening Spider students, or some weird bizarre shit like this. And yes, he was broke but this was well known.
It seems he really didn't get along with most of the Chute Boxe teachers... for instance, the team's owner Rudimar Fedrigo sued him when Anderson published his book, in which he accuses Fedrigo of being a "bad person" and that he wasn't qualified to run the team, etc etc Rafael Cordeiro, well it's explained in this video. Also their striking coach Jose "Pele" Landi-Johns holds 2 victories in amateur Muay Thai over Anderson (first one via KO, second one via decision, and it was apparently a close one) and after Anderson left Chute Boxe and was taken in by the Nogueira bros, he and Pelé would regularly get into minor scuffles whenever they would meet in the street. Silva claims that Pelé once tried to run him over with a car, but Pelé says he was just trying to splash him via driving in a pool of water next to him... Anyway, it's weird that he was always getting into conflicts like that, there's also stories that he wasn't in good term with the Rua brothers because he felt that Wanderlei, who was the gym's biggest star, devoted too much time to Shogun and Ninja instead of training with him. Glad Anderson turned it around when he met the Nogueira bros, even if he still had conflicts with some of his training partners (most famously, Vitor Belfort)
@@randallflagg3700 about your last point, Anderson not liking Vitor is not a surprise because most of the brazilian fighters hate Vitor too, he seems to be a huge douchebag.
@@randallflagg3700 So this kinda explains why Anderson had problems with his career and didn't unlocked his potential until he started training with the Noguiera brothers.
The purported Brandon Davis training regimen is certainly spectacular, but perfectly believable. I was a mediocre mid-distance athlete at a D2 school, and trained about 5hrs/day when accounting for actual practice and supplemental cross training; all while going to school and holding down a 20hr/wk job. I easily could have done more training hours than that if I was good enough to make a living at it. The idea that a pro athlete among the best of the best could do up to 7hrs a day isn’t that hard to fathom, especially when you consider it isn’t all at peak output.
His story is cap lol there’s no way he can can do 20 miles a day and still go to training everyday no brakes and he was nearly running full speed? Y’all gotta start using your heads stop believing everything y’all hear
@@netero3233 maybe but then I feel like he would have to take so much that he would have to test positive, and I feel PEDS/NO PEDS he would definitely have to be getting injured more often doing all that training. Look at Khabib he was clean and he literally used to train like hell and felt with so much injuries
In Karate there is the concept of trying to avoid the opponent's attacks like they are knives but I have never seen someone actually decide to get a real knife and try it out on their students. Along comes Joshua Fabia to demonstrate.
I haven’t watched as much mmaonpoint (great channel been busy) as I used to, I watch the companions after the fights. So great to to see Tommy Ransom at the end there. I just looked up what he was up to and he’s working on a feature film, a indie sci-fi. Great work Tommy, I’ve missed you on this channel (I’ve watched from pretty much the start), it’s so impressive to see the work on PHASE. Keep it up!
Adrenaline can fuck you up bad, the big show with everything on the line can fuck you up more, and getting hit on the button or being compromised by a good stroke that made your brain do the white flash will almost instantly drain your energy level. I got jumped once and didn't understand what was happening, everytime I got suckered or hit without seeing the punch coming or being aware of it, my body would lose what felt like half of my stamina and air. It was bizarre. I remember thinking about that more then the guys who were jumping me. Considering it all the hype, the war the fight ended up being, how hard burns rocked him, I think he did phenomenal.
@@FooRocker1245 have you ever seen a world class miler compete they are exhausted afterwords. It’s any sport where you push yourself to the limit you will be exhausted.
The content creator here completely misunderstood what was said. It was never once said that he sparred 100 rounds, or 20 rounds 5x a day. It was said he trains 5x a day, and *one* of those sessions is sparring.
Another kinda sad story and a local one for me is of TJ Grant. He was scheduled to fight for the belt his next fight but had a random training injury, got a concussion and has not fought since 😕
Moving immediately into the top 5 does that? How is logic a shame? Jiri turned down the UFC's 1st contract years ago, he literally wanted to fight the least UFC fights possible before a title? 😂
I like how the first time I saw Jiri, I got bewildered when I watched his IG story, "oh cool he's at some mountain ran-.. Wait did he just climbed the damn mountain?" all in 2 ig stories.
True, and so is Khamzat with his 100 rounds of sparring.No gold medal wrestler(assuming grappling)or world champ boxer (assuming striking)did so much sparring, and they all look much more impressive than him
I trained at a purely muay thai gym as a teen, no mma. Our coach was doing light sparring with the general level class, he clinches and takes the back, then outta nowhere belly-to-back suplexes this guy and knocked him clean out. He wasn't even angry or upset.
