{"id":164617,"date":"2015-09-08T06:08:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T13:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=164617"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:53:24","slug":"lombard-claims-i-was-stupid-about-head-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/lombard-claims-i-was-stupid-about-head-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"Lombard Claims: ‘I Was Stupid About Head Trauma’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UFC welterweight Hector Lombard isn’t competing in the UFC right now, due to a one year suspension due to a failed drug test.<\/p>\n

Lombard has still been active in the sport, doing plenty of interviews. In a recent interview with Submission Radio<\/a>, the welterweight talked extensively about head trauma, in particularly his own experience with it. He says he used to not care and would spar with guys way bigger than him.<\/p>\n

Now he’s smarter and chooses not spar with those huge guys and tries to avoid being hit.<\/p>\n

Here’s what he had to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to hit and not be hit. I was being stupid before. Like, five or four years ago I would go toe to toe and start sparring with heavyweights and try to beat each other up in sparring. But I have to be a bit smart, because you can [only] take so much. But before I was like a bit stupid. I would spar anybody, any heavyweight. I would spar Kickboxers, anyone. I used to spar with ‘Carnage’ [Nathan Corbette], I would spar with Mark Hunt. I would spar with anybody.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI would spar with anyone. And now I become a bit smarter. I don\u2019t want to spar with none of these heavy guys, you know? They definitely would end your career quick.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

What are your thoughts on the subject, do you think fighters should lower their amount of sparring?<\/p>\n

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