{"id":66273,"date":"2013-08-12T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=66273"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:54:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:54:16","slug":"exclusive-chad-george-talks-return-to-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-chad-george-talks-return-to-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE | Chad George talks return to MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Evan Stoumbelis – @MMAEvan<\/p>\n

WEC veteran Chad George made a big announcement on BJPENN.com radio on Wednesday regarding his return to MMA after having a disk in his back replaced. After his announcement I was fortunate enough to interview Chad 1 on 1. Special thanks to Jason House (@JayFSE) for setting this up. As always, Chad’s responses are italicized.<\/p>\n

ES: Since we last talked in April how are you feeling? <\/strong><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m feeling great. It\u2019s definitely weird not being in pain. I’m back to full training now, 100%, Wrestling, Jiu-Jitsu, heavy lifting, all of it. I\u2019m still doing Physical Therapy at AFT at Santa Monica and I\u2019m really just pushing myself harder every day than the day before.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: When did the fight officially get scheduled?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Well we\u2019ve been talking about it for a while, and now we\u2019re just waiting on paperwork. I\u2019m all good to go for October 5th. Now we\u2019re just dotting the I\u2019s and crossing the T\u2019s and then we\u2019re ready to go.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: How did you decide on this event and this promotion?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It really tough because I have a great relationship with BAMMA. Those guys are my family and they\u2019ve always been good to me, and I\u2019ve been with Pandemonium for a long time. It was very tough decision, but with everything laid out and with the things that were presented, my team decided that this would be the best option for this moment. I\u2019m not saying I won’t fight for BAMMA in the future, but for this moment my management decided on this.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: Coming off the surgery and not being able to train 100% in the past, is there anything you\u2019re looking to showcase in this upcoming fight?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m just looking to showcase that I have every aspect of what it takes to be world champion. I want to showcase everything that I haven\u2019t been able to over the last couple of years.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: Have you made any changes to your coaching staff or cornermen or anything like that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve had a couple really big changes, like I picked up some new coaches for striking: Rob McIver and Zarom from Victory. I picked them up as my striking team. I\u2019m just working with them. We have amazing chemistry for how long we\u2019ve been together and it just fits in perfectly. It just seems like everything is aligning and this is meant to be.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES:Now having that disk replaced, are you noticing there are things you can now do because you\u2019re injury and pain-free?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Absolutely, I haven\u2019t been able to kick for the last couple of years because, if I turned my hip a certain way, I would be in pain for days, now I\u2019m moving my hips properly and learning the proper form. I never had confidence in my punching power, I mean, I knew I had it, but my core was so weak. Now I\u2019m strengthening it I\u2019m getting confident with everything that I throw.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: You said your core was really weak before. What are some things you\u2019re doing to strengthen it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Strength and conditioning, my team has been really adamant about doing tons of core training every day and doing strengthening movement and having confidence in these movements. It took months for me to not have pain running down my leg and eventually it started going away and I feel great. Every week I feel ten times stronger than I was the week before.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: With everything that your team is helping you do, is this something you will have to do for the rest of your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I have to, I never want to go back to the pain I was in before. People that never had a herniated disk don\u2019t understand it. That is the worst pain I could ever go through that I know of, and I went through it on a daily basis. This is something I\u2019ll do for the rest of my career or even maybe the rest of my life.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: Is there a high chance of you re-injuring that disk again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“There\u2019s always a possibility of re-injury once it\u2019s been injured. Once it\u2019s been injured its got a higher risk. We had to make sure I didn’t do too much too soon. I only have a fraction of my disk left, so I still have to be careful. I can\u2019t go too crazy, can\u2019t do things with bad form or train with these big guys. As long as I\u2019m doing that and training smart I\u2019ll be fine.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: Going off the training smart topic, were there things you shouldn’t have done that weren’t smart looking back now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Oh man I could write a book on how many things I’ve done wrong in training! I\u2019m a little guy so my whole life I’ve been about proving I\u2019m not a little guy. I\u2019d spar bigger guys, I\u2019d wrestle with 200 pounders, I\u2019d hard kickbox with 180lbs guys just because I forget that I\u2019m not as big as him, or I think I can lift more weight than I should, or push myself too many rounds when I\u2019m too tired. Now I realize, alright I\u2019ll go rest up and come back stronger tomorrow. It was trial and error really and I use them as a learning experience.
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ES: Looking back now, do you wish you had done the surgery earlier and think about how things may have been different?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“You know I\u2019m not really one who likes to look backwards like \u2018oh I should have done this or done that,\u2019 a lot of good things happened, the documentary and that whole story. If I was 100%, that may not have happened. A lot of good things came from it, if you look on the flip side. I\u2019m not really worried about what I should or shouldn\u2019t have done. I focus on the fact that I get a second chance at this thing.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: Speaking of the documentary, I saw on your Twitter that Occupation Fighter hit 50,000 ratings, congrats on that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Thanks, yeah we just hit 50,000 ratings on Netflix.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: I also remember seeing that Dreamworks did a private screening of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Yeah Dreamworks invited us for private screening for artists and faculty and my family got to come and stuff like that. There was a Q&A and we had a blast. My management and Iridium agency got to come out, and it was a fun experience. Growing up as an artist, I always wanted to work at Dreamworks, so it was really surreal.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: Speaking of Dreamworks and your art, have you been doing more of that during your recovery?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Not right now really. I got a lot of drawing done while I was bed ridden. I got to do some cool stuff while I was laying in bed, but now it\u2019s been on a back-burner. I\u2019m focused on getting healthy and getting this first fight out-of-the-way and start attacking at what I was born to do.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: While you were bedridden, did you make any changes to your diet?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I always try to eat pretty healthy. I’m trying to do everything to a T. I\u2019m working with a nutritionist and we\u2019re still 8 weeks out from the fight, but I\u2019m eating like I\u2019m 4 weeks out. I\u2019m eating clean, feeling good, taking supplements for the first time, drinking protein shakes, pre-workout shakes, vitamins, all that stuff. It all came together at the right time.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

ES: How has your weight cut been with you taking so much time off?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Well I\u2019m a pretty big 135er. I walk around at about 160 pounds and I\u2019m used to eating good and I enjoy eating proper food. Instead of changing the diet suddenly, the plan is, over a handful of weeks, my weight chops down anyway. I\u2019m not counting calories but I\u2019ve got more energy during the day and I\u2019m naturally chopping weight. It should be an easy cut. Even in the film, I\u2019d be in the sauna while I was over 160 before, so I\u2019m trying to eliminate the extra pounds. The weight cut is the worst part. If I can cut as much water as I can and limit the water I have to pull out, I\u2019ll be happy.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: How had being bedridden affected your weight?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Believe it or not, I stayed close to 160 after the surgery. All of a sudden I had a chip in my mindset where I knew why I did the surgery. It wasn\u2019t so I could enjoy food or eat things to allow me to cut my weight down, it was a recovery process.. I mean I was out of bed 3 days after surgery without pain medication.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: With being out of bed so fast without pain medication, did you have a timeline for when you wanted to be back in the gym?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“My timeline was take this time off and get me in there, but my team did a great job of keeping me under control. My training partners and coaches wouldn’t let me anyway. My team was allowing me to do a little more every week, lift a little more, stretch a little more, and as the weeks went on we built up to where we are today.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: You mentioned that you brought in some new striking coaches. \u00a0How did you decide on that and when did that happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I had decided before I wanted to go under the knife, I\u2019ve been with them for years now. But actively as my coaches, I\u2019ve been with them for 6 months. I always had a great relationship with them and we all knew we wanted to start working together and it just lined up and one thing led to another. We knew it would happen at some point and it just lined up.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: What are your thoughts as you get closer and closer to October 5th?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It becomes more and more real every day. I always wake up and think to myself about today and tell myself it\u2019s going to be another day we want to get further. I always think to myself: what did I do today that bettered me from yesterday? I didn’t do the surgery so I would be without pain. I did the surgery so I could do something nobody has ever done before. Every day I remind myself about that, and it\u2019s a testament to what I\u2019m doing.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: Did you ever have doubts about whether or not you wanted to return to MMA?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I\u2019d be lying if I said I didn’t have some doubts. Some days I\u2019d wake up and question it, but I see it as a reminder as \u2018hey don\u2019t go back to what you were doing\u2019. I can\u2019t let those days take over, I have to win that battle. Fighting is mental. If you don\u2019t have a grasp on that, you can\u2019t be something more. I\u2019m finally getting a grasp on that.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: When did all of that happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I think it all started happening when the reality set in that I might be done with the sport. I was talking with some buddies from BAMMA, and I thought ‘hey maybe, you know, I hang them up and walk away,’ and I got into a depression. I thought \u2018wow am I really done?\u2019 But there\u2019s something deep down that I knew said ‘there\u2019s no way I\u2019m done, I have to achieve more.’ That\u2019s when the mindset started shifting to \u2018You know what? You do have something bigger to do and now it\u2019s coming together.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: I know you\u2019ve fought under the BAMMA banner multiple times and you mentioned that you have a good relationship with them. How did that start?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Well I\u2019ve been with them for a long time and, when I got out of the WEC, they approached me about fighting and we talked about everything and they took care of me. It\u2019s nothing against Brett, they\u2019re like family to me. I\u2019m letting Jason House from Iridium Sports Agency handle my career with my new stuff that I\u2019m doing, and Pandemonium fights is the route they decided to go with.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: Jason and I talk quite a bit through texting and Twitter. How did you partner up with him as your manager?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“One of my training partners is managed by Jason, Dominic Clark, and he introduced me to Jason. I\u2019ve known him for a while but he brought it to the table. He works with a lot of good guys and has a lot of connections to help me get back in there. I have to go with what I\u2019m doing and I let him handle that side of it for me. He and I talked and saw eye to eye on what I want and October 5th is the start of it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: It definitely sounds like October 5th is the start of many good things to come<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m not super religious about preaching but I truly believe there\u2019s something inside of me that\u2019s supposed to come out that I\u2019m supposed to show the world.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ES: On behalf of BJPENN.com, I\u2019d like to thank you for making this announcement through us and for taking the time to do this interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Absolutely, you guys have been with me since the beginning. 2013 is absolutely going to be the Year of the Savage.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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