Efter sin förlust mot Frankie Edgar berättade B.J. Penn i en intervju att han aldrig skulle kunna tänka sig att anställa dietisten Mike Dolce igen. Penn gav dock aldrig någon förklaring till uttalande.
Dolce kommenterade aldrig uttalandet men har nu klivit fram för att berätta om sin involvering i arbetet med Penn, under en podcast med Joe Rogan.
Det här var vad han hade att berätta under programmet:
It was one of the oddest training camps I’ve ever been a part of, and I was there for less than two weeks, physically, in Hawaii. I had very little influence. I made some strong suggestions and very strong observations to members of the team about what I saw, what I’m accustomed to and what I think would really benefit him. The suggestions that I made, I made them officially, and they were accepted but not responded or reacted to. It was just a matter of that’s the direction he chose to go. He’s either going to win and look like a fucking genius, or he’s going to not win and he’s going to make the oddsmakers look like geniuses.
I had issues with the training frequency. I don’t believe he was training enough. All the other athletes I work with train much more often. (He trained) once a day, but not quite every day. The type of training was less. I don’t know why there were no coaches there that were truly able to make influence.
A lot of the things that were said are factually incorrect. He had a house full of food. I personally brought tons of amazing food that was available. He was two minutes from a Whole Foods right down the street. His house had 10 gallons of water in it, a gallon of coconut water and running water. There’s sea salt everywhere. I brought a huge vat of the power pasta. I don’t restrict anything. Again, I had very little influence, very little influence. I was more like a chef. I would bring some really delicious food, and some things would get eaten. Some things wouldn’t.
