The underdog

[McBryde Mats LLC]

Tonights UFC card features some really good underdog fights with Rockhold/Bisping and Cruz/Faber. With last weeks fightnight seeing another underdog in Cody Garbrandt. It got me thinking about the spirit of what it must feel like to know that you are the under dog going into a card. How do these fighters amp themselves up, knowing that they are given a slim to none chance of winning the bout. Is it the willingness to just get in the cage and get a fight in, or the paycheck?

I wonder what goes through their minds before the walkout when they are warming up, The voices inside their heads, are they filled with doubt, or do they believe they stand a chance. Sure, anyone can get caught on the right day, even champions, so do they hold onto that thought and use it for motivation?

For those that compete out there, have you ever been the underdog? did you overcome the challenge and turn it around? or did it go as expected and you took the L?

 

[BisexualMMA]

Nothing that can't be solved by viewing any of the Rocky films.

Or Legally Blonde.

 

[NHB7]

At this level of competition, I think guys like Faber and Bisping are supremely confident in their abilities. They recognize that the world sees them as underdogs, but they don't consider themselves underdogs.

Now Matt Serra must have known and felt like an Underdog vs GSP. When it's that apparent I imagine one thinks, "I've got nothing to lose." And that mindset can make you a very dangerous opponent.

 

[McBryde Mats LLC]

At this level of competition, I think guys like Faber and Bisping are supremely confident in their abilities. They recognize that the world sees them as underdogs, but they don't consider themselves underdogs.

Now Matt Serra must have known and felt like an Underdog vs GSP. When it's that apparent I imagine one thinks, "I've got nothing to lose." And that mindset can make you a very dangerous opponent.

I hear you, believe it and you will become it, act as if.

 

[McBryde Mats LLC]

So the weekend came and went and the spirit of the underdog triumphed!

Something told me all week long when seeing media around the fight that Bisping had a good chance, Rockhold just seemed to overconfident...& then leaving that chin out there...c'mon man

One for the underdogs! Who else out there thought it was possible?