{"id":261453,"date":"2017-10-11T18:02:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T01:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=261453"},"modified":"2017-10-11T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T01:02:56","slug":"jorge-masvidal-watching-karate-kid-prep-stephen-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jorge-masvidal-watching-karate-kid-prep-stephen-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal Has Been Watching Karate Kid to Prep for Stephen Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next month, fight fans will be awarded with an embarrassment of riches when <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-217\/rose-namajunas-joanna-jedrzejczyk-michael-bisping-cody-garbrandt-tj-dillashaw-georges-st-pierre-gsp-msg-ufc-217\/\">UFC 217 goes down in the Big Apple<\/a>. Leading into <span>\u2014\u00a0<\/span>three count&#8217;em, three <span>\u2014\u00a0<\/span>title fights, Jorge Masvidal is going to fight Stephen Thompson. It&#8217;s the new breed going to war with each other in a wild clash of styles. You take an aggressive street fighter turned complete MMA athlete and pit them against a Karate an kickboxing champion, that&#8217;s just a win every time. Masvidal recently talked about how he&#8217;s going to prepare for the &#8220;Wonderboy&#8221;, and it&#8217;s clear he&#8217;s studying some film.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m watching Bruce Lee movies everyday. I&#8217;ve seen the Karate Kid like three times this week at least.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just keeping myself in the Karate mindset as much as I can right now so I can see everything coming. [&#8230;] I feel like I could do a lot of things with [Stephen Thompson]. There&#8217;s certain ranges you just shouldn&#8217;t give to him because that&#8217;s where he&#8217;s best at. There&#8217;s a lot of ranges he just cant fight. That&#8217;s why he can&#8217;t put pressure on because he doesn&#8217;t know how to fight there. He was just taught one thing. His dad forced him into one martial art and he doesn&#8217;t really do well in a lot of other ranges. He&#8217;s going to have to fight-fight with me I&#8217;m not just a strike, or a guy who can shoot takedowns and stuff. I can fight at all ranges, I&#8217;ve been doing it my whole career. He hasn&#8217;t. He&#8217;s only got one range.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The violence you all have asked for is finally going down nov 4th &#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wonderbread?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wonderbread<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hoslapseason?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hoslapseason<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/makenycgreatagain?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#makenycgreatagain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jorge Masvidal UFC (@GamebredFighter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GamebredFighter\/status\/898314800060547072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My strategy\u00a0<span>\u2014 I&#8217;m going to tell you\u00a0<\/span>and hopefully you don&#8217;t guys go and tell him <span>\u2014 I&#8217;m going to be honest you and tell you my strategy.\u00a0<\/span>I&#8217;m going to punch him in his face and I&#8217;m just going to keep doing that until he figures a way out for himself, y&#8217;know? It&#8217;s a case of me and him are both in jail and we&#8217;re sharing a cell, and you would know who&#8217;s doing the laundry, who&#8217;s clipping their toe nails, who&#8217;s preparing the food for the other. That guy&#8217;s never about to fight nobody. Don&#8217;t buy wolf tickets and the dream telling that he&#8217;s doing. That guy plays bicycle counter-punch every time. If guys rush at him, he can do well y&#8217;know? But if not, he doesn&#8217;t take a step forward, that&#8217;s just not him. He doesn&#8217;t go forward, pressuring guys throwing bombs.&#8221;\u00a0<span>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/radio\/audio\/the-tsn-mma-show-episode-8-1.880849\">Jorge Masvidal on The TSN MMA show<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All jokes aside, it sounds like Jorge Masvidal has a good idea on how this Karate thing works. Stephen Thompson is at his best with a fighter who is going to let him keep a range to let his elite kicks fly in all sorts of places. If there&#8217;s a fighter who is going to take the fight to Thompson up close and dirty, it&#8217;s going to be Masvidal. It&#8217;ll be facscinating to see how the whole thing plays out. The two welterweight contenders go at it on November 4th at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p><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 10\/11\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next month, fight fans will be awarded with an embarrassment of riches when UFC 217 goes down in the Big Apple. Leading into \u2014\u00a0three count&#8217;em, three \u2014\u00a0title fights, Jorge Masvidal is going to fight Stephen Thompson. It&#8217;s the new breed going to war with each other in a wild clash of styles. 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