Lätt tungviktsmästaren Daniel Cormiers gym AKA har ifrågasatts gällande hur de tränar sina fighters, då skador har uppkommit vid flertalet tillfällen inför inplanerade matcher. Senast ut är det både Cormier och Luke Rockhold som åkt på skador, men Daniel vill inte att gymmet ska få skulden.
Detta hade Daniel att säga via ”The MMA Hour”:
Guys have made changes (in AKA). I promise you, when I fought the last fight, Cain and I made some changes to our training. It worked great for Cain, he looked fantastic against Travis Browne. For me, I felt a little bit off. I felt like I didn’t do as much as I needed to do and it really messed with me mentally. Now, I spar a lot, and I run a lot, and I train a lot. It’s the only way that I feel secure in my own mind. The biggest part of competition if knowing that I’ve done enough to fight. It’s scary if it’s the other way.
When I fought Anderson Silva, I was worried. Like, man did I run enough? Did I put enough miles in? Did I spar enough rounds? And you don’t want to be questioning yourself. That was supposed to be Jon Jones. I actually had changed up my training situation, scared to get hurt, before I was going fight Jon Jones. It was a huge mistake and I didn’t like it. I’m going to go back to doing what I do. I’m going to train as hard as I can and I will hope I can make it to these fights man.
It’s not Javier’s fault. This isn’t college. We’re not high-school athletes. Javier can tell me not to spar and I’ll be like, ‘Yeah sure, Jav.’ then I’ll go spar. I’ll do what I’ll do. We’re adults. I’m the reason I got hurt. I don’t know why. It wasn’t Javier Mendez or Bob Cook. The decisions are mine. If I got hurt, it was my fault. People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They’re our employees.
Cormier var tänkt att ta sig an Anthony Johnson under UFC 206 den 10 december i Toronto, när detta möte kommer att äga rum istället återstår att se.
