Daniel Cormier (16-1) vann lättungviktsbältet på UFC 187, men hans träningspartner Cain Velasquez (13-1) erkänner att han var lite orolig för Cormier, då han fick mindre tid att träna inför matchen.
Det var först tänkt att Cormier skulle möta Ryan Bader (19-4), men fick hoppa in som ersättare mot Anthony Johnson (19-5) då Jon Jones blev av med sin titel för sin inblanding i en bilkrasch. Velasquez var orolig över att Cormier nu fick mycket mindre tid att förbereda sig.
”We were a little worried about hurrying the camp, making it shorter, since he was supposed to fight Ryan Bader on June 6. But, we still felt good about the fight,” berättade han för FOX Sports. ”And, he went in there and did it. He did such a great job. It felt good to see that guy go in there and get it. It was definitely a great night for him.”
Velasquez menar att fighters från AKA sällan har dåliga prestationer i buren.
I don’t think you ever really see any of us show up to a fight and have a bad performance,” he says. ”We’re always ready to fight. And to get ready for a fight, you have to fight. Boxers box to get ready to fight, wrestlers wrestle. We have so much we have to do to get ready, but fighting is one of them,” declared the 265-pound champion.
Velasquez har ofta drabbats av skador under sin karriär, men han menar att skadorna ofta uppkommer under matcher och inte i träning.
personally, most of my injuries were ones that I sustained during fights in UFC, not in practice,” sa han. ”We do what we have to do to be ready, in practice, and I think our results are good.”
