r/CombatSportsCentral

Whether it's for the triple champ status or moving up 3 weight classes to quickly, it's screwing over the best fighters in the world.

Examples:

1. Khamzat - Wants to move up to fight Jiri for the belt (3 weights). Bulks up and at the last minute decides to cut and fight Strickland. This cut obviously affected him. I was rooting for Strickland to win but this honestly helped Sean win.

2. Ilia - Wants to move up to fight Islam. (3 weights) The UFC was literally stalling to announce Islam vs Garry based on if Ilia won against Justin. His ambitions to move up to 170 led to him gaining alot mass that wasnt properly conditioned (you can see a visible difference in muscle). This may have played a massive factor as to why he got tired so quickly in the 3rd (obviously as well as the damage sustained).

3. Poatan - Wants to be the first triple champ and moves up way to fast and carried alot of unconditioned body weight. We know what happens next.

(What Ilia and Khamzat did was the equivalent of Poatan gaining all that weight to fight Gane and suddenly deciding to cut back down and fight Carlos).

Just learnt that she started boxing at 28, had her first fight at 29, basically winning the US Nationals with under 2 years of training before going on to have an amazing pro career!

Derrick Lewis can't fight he just had muscles and power his grappling is to muscle his opponents up. I was a d2 wrestler never a champion but I was decent. I say i could beat Derrick Lewis in a street fight. What do you guys think.

Basically there are no scheduled classes, you drop in anytime to work on the bag, shadow, etc. and a coach comes up and works some pad rounds with you.

Sparring overall is minimal, and no-contact intense sparring is encouraged saved for some days where you have to register to contact spar.

So basically 0 partner drills and a ton of autonomy? Anyone else experience this? It's founded by a Japanese coach btw if that matters!

I will go first judo and Muay Thai