{"id":132474,"date":"2015-03-10T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T18:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=132474"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:45:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:45:30","slug":"coach-pettis-like-floyd-mayweather-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/coach-pettis-like-floyd-mayweather-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach: Pettis Is Like The Floyd Mayweather Of MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/johny-hendricks-looking-steal-showtimes-shine\/pettis-12\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-132153\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132153\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pettis.png\" alt=\"Pettis\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pettis.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pettis-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pettis-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pettis-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Knockout. This is going to be a fight that\u2019s won on the feet. I got to tell you, Anthony, when he ran off that five-fight streak in the WEC and had some amazing performances &#8212; a Pettis that\u2019s fighting this often is the most dangerous Pettis you\u2019ll see. You don\u2019t want to let this kid starting fighting too often if you\u2019re the other contenders. He said the other day I could do this four times a year easy. That\u2019s how easy the training camps are for him. Not because he\u2019s lazy, but because he is like the [Floyd] Mayweather of our sport, hard work and dedicated. He\u2019s the guy [that says], \u2018hey, let\u2019s do one more round,\u2019 or \u2018hey, let\u2019s do another session on Saturday.\u2019 He\u2019s the one asking me to schedule more as opposed to me telling him to schedule more. That\u2019s why he\u2019s going to win.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nIn a new interview, Anthony Pettis head coach Duke Roufus talks about this weekend&#8217;s main event between Pettis and dos Anjos, calling his student the Floyd Mayweather of our sport.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Quote via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2015\/3\/10\/8178991\/duke-roufus-anthony-pettis-is-like-the-floyd-mayweather-of-our-sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAfighting.com<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Knockout. This is going to be a fight that\u2019s won on the feet. I got to tell you, Anthony, when he ran off that five-fight streak in the WEC and had some amazing performances &#8212; a Pettis that\u2019s fighting this often is the most dangerous Pettis you\u2019ll see. You don\u2019t want to let this kid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":132153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Coach: Pettis Is Like The Floyd Mayweather Of MMA | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a new interview, Anthony Pettis head coach Duke Roufus talks about this weekend&#039;s main event between Pettis and dos Anjos, ... 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