{"id":241131,"date":"2017-06-08T10:49:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=241131"},"modified":"2017-06-08T11:57:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:57:30","slug":"yancy-medeiros-sparring-max-holloway-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/yancy-medeiros-sparring-max-holloway-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Yancy Medeiros describes what it&#8217;s like to spar with Max Holloway: that&#8217;s one tough Hawaiian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 212, which went down in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last Saturday night, was a big one for the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/max-holloway\/video-max-holloway-receives-heros-welcome-upon-return-hawaii\/\">Hawaii<\/a>, as Max Holloway defeated Jose Aldo to win featherweight gold, and Yancy Medeiros thumped Erick Silva to move to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/yancy-medeiros\/yancy-medeiros-trains-diaz-brothers-max-holloway\/\">2-0 as a welterweight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii, of course, has always been a hotbed for mixed martial arts \u2013 thanks in large part to our own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\/\">BJ Penn<\/a>. Yet with Holloway sitting on the featherweight throne, and Medeiros surging into welterweight contendership, the island&#8217;s status as a crucible for top fighters is surer than ever.<\/p>\n<p>On the latest episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-36-aj-mckee-yancy-medeiros\/\">BJ Penn Radio<\/a>, Medeiros joined host <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kinchmma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kinch<\/a> to discuss the environment of his and Holloway&#8217;s training in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIf anybody thought he wasn\u2019t going to take Jose\u2019s hardest hits, nuh uh, cause I clock him,\u201d he said of training with Holloway. \u201cHe gets his punches in but you best believe I give him a punch back every time, so I know he can take a hit. That\u2019s one tough Hawaiian.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;[Training] partners learn from each other, but we do more than that,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We listen. After sparring, we talk. We\u2019ll be like \u2018that shit was tight, you\u2019ve got to keep doing that cause I couldn\u2019t get out of that shit.\u2019 It keeps me honest, cause it puts me in that predicament to get out. He gives me feedback, I give him feedback.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Medeiros then explained that, with such a great team, he and Holloway really have no reason to leave Hawaii in search of additional training.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We\u2019ve got a good team,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We\u2019ve got good coaches that collaborate all together. We don\u2019t have this separate, different gyms far away [stuff]\u2026 We live on an Island so everything\u2019s real connected. We learn how to do it like that. Everyone\u2019s like \u2018you gotta go cross-train.\u2019 Nope. \u2018You gotta get in, get out.\u2019 Nuh uh. We\u2019ve got the formula. We\u2019ve got the formula all at home and we know how to do it.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think of the recent success of Max Holloway and Yancy Medeiros?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 6\/8\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 212, which went down in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last Saturday night, was a big one for the Hawaii, as Max Holloway defeated Jose Aldo to win featherweight gold, and Yancy Medeiros thumped Erick Silva to move to 2-0 as a welterweight. 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