{"id":193702,"date":"2016-05-09T01:36:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T08:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=193702"},"modified":"2016-05-09T01:36:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T08:36:44","slug":"video-gunnar-nelson-reveals-not-wrap-hands-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-gunnar-nelson-reveals-not-wrap-hands-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Gunnar Nelson reveals why he does not wrap his hands when fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fight Night Rotterdam: Post-fight Press Conference\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uUFit36yuGA?start=856&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-conor-mcgregor-gunnar-nelson-sparring-hard\/\">Gunnar Nelson<\/a> got back to his winning ways at <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-fight-night-87\/ufc-fight-night-87-live-results\/\">UFC Fight Night 87<\/a>, which took place in Rotterdam over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson beat Albert Tumenov by submission in the second round of their fight and talked about his preference for not wrapping his hands when he fights at the post-fight press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson mentions that he would actually prefer fighting with no hand wraps and no gloves. Joe Rogan has previously talked about how he feels MMA would actually be <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-joe-rogan-explains-mma-no-gloves-wrist-taping\/\">a safer sport<\/a> if they did away with hand wraps and gloves.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on wrapping hands and gloves for MMA? Share your opinion with us in the comment section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunnar Nelson got back to his winning ways at UFC Fight Night 87, which took place in Rotterdam over the weekend. Nelson beat Albert Tumenov by submission in the second round of their fight and talked about his preference for not wrapping his hands when he fights at the post-fight press conference. Nelson mentions that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54422,"featured_media":193704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10246,2682],"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>VIDEO | Gunnar Nelson reveals why he does not wrap his hands when fighting | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-gunnar-nelson-reveals-not-wrap-hands-fighting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VIDEO | Gunnar Nelson reveals why he does not wrap his hands when fighting | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gunnar Nelson got back to his winning ways at UFC Fight Night 87, which took place in Rotterdam over the weekend. 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