{"id":211482,"date":"2016-11-29T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T16:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=211482"},"modified":"2016-11-29T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T19:34:10","slug":"daniel-cormier-responds-concerns-aka-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/daniel-cormier\/daniel-cormier-responds-concerns-aka-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier responds to concerns over AKA injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the American Kickboxing Academy is home to some of the best fighters in the world, including UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier<\/a>, former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold, former heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, and top ranked lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov<\/a> to name just a few, the camp is often criticized for its fighters frequently pulling out of fights with injuries.<\/p>\n

\"Luke<\/a><\/p>\n

Both Rockhold and Cormier were set to fight in the month of November, however Rockhold withdrew from his ‘UFC Fight Night: Melbourne’ scrap with Jacare Souza<\/a>, and Cormier withdrew from his UFC 206 scrap with Anthony Johnson.<\/a> This added fuel to the fire of fans criticizing AKA fighters for training too hard, resulting in a copious amount of injuries.<\/p>\n

During a recent interview on The MMA Hour<\/a>, Cormier responded to the criticism, saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cGuys have made changes (in AKA)”<\/p>\n

\u201cI promise you, when I fought the last fight, Cain and I made some changes to our training. It worked great for Cain, he looked fantastic against Travis Browne.\u201d<\/p>\n

“For me, I felt a little bit off,” he said. “I felt like I didn’t do as much as I needed to do and it really messed with me mentally. Now, I spar a lot, and I run a lot, and I train a lot. It’s the only way that I feel secure in my own mind. The biggest part of competition if knowing that I\u2019ve done enough to fight. It\u2019s scary if it\u2019s the other way.<\/p>\n

“When I fought Anderson Silva, I was worried. Like, man did I run enough? Did I put enough miles in? Did I spar enough rounds? And you don’t want to be questioning yourself. That was supposed to be Jon Jones.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually had changed up my training situation, scared to get hurt, before I was going fight Jon Jones. It was a huge mistake and I didn’t like it. I\u2019m going to go back to doing what I do. I\u2019m going to train as hard as I can and I will hope I can make it to these fights man.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Rockhold<\/a><\/p>\n

While some blame the fighters for the injuries which occur in training, others blame the AKA coaching staff for not implementing a safer training regimen. <\/p>\n

“It’s not Javier’s fault,\u201d he stated. \u201cThis isn’t college. We’re not high-school athletes. Javier can tell me not to spar and I’ll be like, \u2018Yeah sure, Jav.’ then I’ll go spar. I\u2019ll do what I\u2019ll do. We\u2019re adults.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m the reason I got hurt. I don\u2019t know why. It wasn\u2019t Javier Mendez or Bob Cook,\u201d he said. \u201cThe decisions are mine. If I got hurt, it was my fault.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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