Grappling-stjärnan Garry Tonen annonserar via sin Facebook att han planerar göra MMA-debut redan under nästa år.
Grappling-fantasten Garry Tonon har i princip gått från anonym till kommande superstjärna under de senaste två åren. Tonon som har svartbälte i BJJ har flera imponerande prestationer i bagaget, bland annat har han två Eddie Bravo Invitational-titlar och en anmärkningsvärd match mot Kron Gracie.
Tonon avslöjar nu via Facebook att han planerar göra MMA-debut redan i nästa år:
Tonens huvudtränare Tom DeBlass pratade nyligen om övergången i podcasten Just Roll. Han pratar bland annat om tvivlen inför övergången och hur de planerar att profilera Tonen inom MMA:
Let’s see how athletic he is in his standup. Let’s see how coordinated he is with his boxing. Let’s see how his wrestling translates from, you know, Jiu-Jitsu to MMA. Nowadays you have to be an athlete in MMA. The days of Jeremy Horn being successful in MMA are no longer. You have to be an athlete, OK? Garry is an athlete but, coordination, all these things make a huge, huge difference. The thing is, in MMA, I don’t know what the hell it is, but you’ll get some guys that aren’t good at Jiu-Jitsu at all – they just find a way to slip out of submissions, and it just gets tough. So, my advice to Garry is get your standup world-class, you know? Get your standup very, very good. Or, be like Demian Maia, know what I mean? Like, flashy stuff in MMA becomes dangerous at a high level, you know? Garry, I think is going maul to through a lot of people at a local level. When you get to a higher level, and you have a style that leaves yourself open, it could be dangerous, you know what I mean? And the thing is, what are we gonna do if you take someone down, you take their back, you almost choke them, and they turn into you, end up in your guard, they hammerfist you five times and they stand up and you gotta stand up all over again and do it all over again? Then, where’s your mind at? You know what I mean? So my advice to them is, Garry, Gordon, these guys is, this is not Jiu-Jitsu. There’s nothing similar about MMA and Jiu-Jitsu whatsoever. It’s a different animal, it’s a different beast, you know?
