UFC poor performance institute?

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Leading up to the fight the UFC was hyping like crazy about how ngannou was training at the UFC performance institute, where they have "the best trainers, nutritionalists, workout equipment and physical therapists."

The guy looked like he'd never been on a jog before... one of the worst cardio displays in years. What the hell kind of workouts are these expert trainers having this guy do? He comes in heavier than any previous fight, looking like he's been training to be a bodybuilder... did they recommend he avoid cardio? He was in terrible shape for a five round fight
 
They're just plugging their own gym.

Pay no heed to what they say about it.
 
Wait a minute, I'm almost positive that I saw him wearing a fancy mask and jogging on a treadmill in a commercial campaign that almost exclusively pushed him rather that the defending champion that actually has cardio.
 
Someone there needs to show Ngannou how a treadmill works...

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Imagine how much better would be real MMA fighter if he training there!
 
Yeah, but he went to France....
 
All that fancy technology and he lost to a guy training in a regular gym who also works a day job.

There's no substitute for skill and experience. Ngannou will get better and he will be back. He needs more big fight experience.
 
Reach4theSky said:
Someone there needs to show Ngannou how a treadmill works...

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Must have been using the underwater one, that's where it all went wrong.

I'm honestly though really curious what his workout regimen was because he looked more muscular than ever. I guess going on jogs doesn't make you punch harder than a ford escort
 
tdluxon said:
Leading up to the fight the UFC was hyping like crazy about how ngannou was training at the UFC performance institute, where they have "the best trainers, nutritionalists, workout equipment and physical therapists."

The guy looked like he'd never been on a jog before... one of the worst cardio displays in years. What the hell kind of workouts are these expert trainers having this guy do? He comes in heavier than any previous fight, looking like he's been training to be a bodybuilder... did they recommend he avoid cardio? He was in terrible shape for a five round fight
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I was actually thinking to myself during the fight (Lord knows I had time) that prime Tyson would have dusted both of these fools in the first, not because he was some sick MMA genius but because it was mostly a striking affair and they were both completely drained.

The whole thing was an embarrassment to MMA in general, not just the UFC institute.
 
We need a new TUF.

32 guys. 16 go to the performance institute and 16 do the Dolce diet. Who will manage to make weight and still appear to have cardio that lasts longer than 30 seconds?!!
 
what? i thought the NASA astronauts trained there, oh boy am i surprised
 
So can any fighter use this Institute for free? Or just the ones the UFC is pushing.
 
I guess he didn't train for getting wrestled? Even though he was fighting a wrestler? I think Ngannou believed his own hype and thought if he just touched him once it would be over. Seems like someone forgot to tell him he wasn't fighting Overeem...or Arlovski...and they also forgot to tell him those 2 had been knocked out several times already and he didn't exactly reinvent the wheel by ko'ing them.
 
I want to know what the intention of this institute truly is. Dana seems to harp on about how it's there, and only the truly wise competitors are taking advantage of it. What is it, a fully staffed institution of high level trainers just sitting around five days per week waiting for UFC fighters to walk in and make use of them? And it's funded as a philanthropic gesture by the UFC? Doesn't add up.
 
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