Det blev ingen lyckad kväll, utifrån svenska ögon sett, när världens största MMA-organisation UFC anordnade sin tredje gala i den svenska huvudstaden. Fyra av sex svenskar förlorade sina matcher och de kritiska rösterna var många efter galan, något som inte uppskattas av den svenske UFC-stjärnan Alexander Gustafsson. I ett inlägg på The Mauler Inside, som finns på appen Mikz, skriver Alex att han är besviken på de svenska fansen som går till hårt attack mot svenskarna som förlorade sina matcher i lördags.
I am reading the news and the comments from our fans with mixed feelings today. If you are a fan of this sport you should know what kind of preparations we go through in the camps. It’s nothing but hard training 2-3 time a day and a weight cut for 8-10 weeks where the fighters eat less during a whole day than a normal person do for just lunch.
It’s an enormous pressure with media and PR and then coming into a cage in front of millions of people on TV and thousands of people in the stadium and face someone that wants to knock you out.
No misunderstanding, we love the support we get from all of you, but we cannot become the worst fighters in the world after a loss when we the fight before were the best fighters in the world
Alex skriver vidare i inlägget att han inte heller anser att kritiken mot hans klubb Allstars Training Center är befogad.
Another thing is all the talk about Allstars Training Center and our coaches and the criticism they have received. Let me tell you this, I have been around in a few gyms around the world in my career, and getting better training than we all get at Allstars is hard to find. We have the best coaches you can have and that’s one of the reasons we have fighters coming from all countries in the world to train with us and be a part of the Allstar family.
Avslutningsvis skriver Alex att fajters kan ha dåliga och bra dagar, men att man inte ska dra för stora slutsatser från utgången av endast en match.
To sum up this message, you can have good nights like we have had for the past years, and then you can have a bad night like we had last night. The good nights don’t make us world champions and the bad nights don’t make us completely useless and all of us overrated. I would like you all instead, if you are a fan of the sport to support us in the good times and in the bad times and if you want to criticize us, give us constructive critics.
We will come back stronger than ever after this, that is what I can guarantee you all.
