UFC:s tungviktare Cain Velasquez har inte gått någon match sedan oktober 2013 på grund av ett flertal skador och nu har Dana White berättat vad han tycker om situationen, som han skyller på Velasquez gym ”AKA”.
Grundaren och coachen Javier Mendez tog inte illa upp utav kritiken, utan såg det snarare som ett tillfälle att förbättras.
Det här berättade Mendez:
I love the fact that he’s bringing attention to that and it does help me look to ways to improve. I’ve been looking to improve the injury rate, and it does concern me.
Här kan vi se vad White hade att säga:
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The conversation that I was having with Javier Mendez, is we’ve got to start training these guys different in the gym. These guy have to start having a lot less contact when it comes to sparring.
The NFL has proven it. They’ve done these studies. The NFL isn’t hitting every day like they used to. They’re playing on Sunday man – that’s it. You have to have some sparring in there, but these guys are doing way too much damage to their fighters inside the gym.
The response from the trainers has been good. Listen, Javier Mendes said ’If Cain isn’t fighting, nobody is getting paid. I’m not getting paid, Cain’s not getting paid The UFC isn’t making money to pay Cain. So it’s not good for anyone.’
So it’s awesome that a guy like Javier gets it. There’s no ego involved. He wants to do what’s right by his fighters.
Injuries are going to happen. You’re going to have injuries. But you have to be so careful. The question becomes with Khabib, did he do all his therapy that he was supposed to do, on his knee, after his surgery? Did he do all the right things? We’re starting to get our ducks in a row, and we’re going to start fixing this.
”We break ground in June in a new office building here, and we are going to built a huge rehab center for the fighters. Because here’s what doesn’t happen in football – if DeMarco Murray blows his knee out for the Dallas Cowboys, they don’t just send him home and say ’Hey, good luck, call us when you’re healthy.’ They make sure he’s there doing his therapy, his rehab, and everything else. That’s what we’re going to start doing too with our fighters.
There’s no doubt about it – AKA is one of the biggest and one of the best. I call camps like his and Greg Jackson’s, ’super camps.’ They have all the best guys in the world. That’s what I’m saying. You can’t have all the best guys in the world beating the living s— out of each other every day. You can’t do it. These guys have to have camps built around them, where guys are working with them, not trying to hurt them.
