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Paulo Thiago's beginning at UFC was promising: a surprising knockout against Josh Koscheck on his debut and three wins in the first four fights inside the organization. The present moment, however, is quite different. The Brazilian welterweight (77kg) lost five of his last seven bouts and has received much criticism from MMA fans, especially in specialized discussion forums on the internet. Paulo confessed that he allowed himself to be influenced by these comments before a fight, this being the reason why he stopped visiting the forums:
"Actually I stopped reading these criticisms long ago because it messes a little bit with the fighter's head. I was influenced before. One day I read the comments about me on a forum on the day before the fight, and it totally influenced me in relation to the strategy for the fight. I was well prepared to fight against Martin Kampmann. I trained and my strategy was to go for striking. The day before I went on the forum and everyone was saying that the solution for me to win this fight was to take the guy down. Then it messed me a bit. I was like: "Should I? Should I try to take him down?". But the whole plan was already drawn. I ended up confusing myself and I did neither well. Since then, I never read" - he said in an interview, recalling the defeat occurred in June 2010.
Paulo believes some comments are useful, but most come from those who do not know much of the subject:
"Many people who writes in these places knows about it, but many people don't, and they have the freedom to write whatever they want. Sometimes the person doesn't know how the training was, the strategy, what went wrong, what happened behind the scenes. Just talking is easy. So I try not to read more."
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I wonder if he was reading Sherdog? lol
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Paulo Thiago's beginning at UFC was promising: a surprising knockout against Josh Koscheck on his debut and three wins in the first four fights inside the organization. The present moment, however, is quite different. The Brazilian welterweight (77kg) lost five of his last seven bouts and has received much criticism from MMA fans, especially in specialized discussion forums on the internet. Paulo confessed that he allowed himself to be influenced by these comments before a fight, this being the reason why he stopped visiting the forums:
"Actually I stopped reading these criticisms long ago because it messes a little bit with the fighter's head. I was influenced before. One day I read the comments about me on a forum on the day before the fight, and it totally influenced me in relation to the strategy for the fight. I was well prepared to fight against Martin Kampmann. I trained and my strategy was to go for striking. The day before I went on the forum and everyone was saying that the solution for me to win this fight was to take the guy down. Then it messed me a bit. I was like: "Should I? Should I try to take him down?". But the whole plan was already drawn. I ended up confusing myself and I did neither well. Since then, I never read" - he said in an interview, recalling the defeat occurred in June 2010.
Paulo believes some comments are useful, but most come from those who do not know much of the subject:
"Many people who writes in these places knows about it, but many people don't, and they have the freedom to write whatever they want. Sometimes the person doesn't know how the training was, the strategy, what went wrong, what happened behind the scenes. Just talking is easy. So I try not to read more."
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I wonder if he was reading Sherdog? lol
