Sage Northcutt åkte under helgen på sin första förlust i sin professionella MMA-karriär, då han ströps ut av Bryan Barberena i andra ronden under ”UFC on FOX 18”. Nu meddelar Northcutt att han kommer börja träna på Tristar på heltid, samma gym som Georges St-Pierre och Rory MacDonald tränar vid.
Detta hade Sage att säga via ”The MMA Hour”:
Yes sir, I will be up there full-time, it looks like. I do have schoolwork still, because I’m still at Texas A&M, so I’m trying to figure out how exactly that’s going to work. If I need to come back to do certain tests and quizzes, or how that’s going to work out. So I’m still playing out that schedule, but yes sir, I’ll be training at Tristar.
Like you said, I’m very young. I do have a lot to learn. So now I’m going to get to go up to Tristar and learn as much as I possibly can, and I think that plays a big part in everything.
Normally I do not spar leading up to fights. It’s just kind of protecting yourself from injuries, and for the moment being, I haven’t been at a gym where there is sparring or any MMA fighters at the gym. The gym I’m specifically at is a Gracie Barra gym, so in the future obviously I will.
I can spar and train my technique in different ways, going up to Tristar, getting different training partners, different UFC fighters who are in there, very talented fighters, and getting to learn the most I can out of everything.
Innan förlusten hade Northcutt hela sju raka segrar, där samtliga tillkommit via olika former av avslut.
