Hector Lombard berättar att han numera tränar smartare. Han ansåg att förr i tiden hade han fel mentalitet på träningarna.
Hector Lombard medverkade nyligen i Submission Radio där han berättade mycket om bland annat sin träning. Lombard är känd för att ha skaffat många ovänner på olika gym efter att ha tränat där. Den kändaste historien är mellan honom och Josh Barnett som ledde till att Lombard som då tävlade i mellanvikt försökte få till en match mot tungviktaren Barnett i Bellator. Bakgrunden till den historien ska ha att göra med en sparring som spårat ur. Lombard säger själv numera att på den tiden hade han fel inställning till träning:
”I’m trying to hit and not be hit. I was being stupid before. Like, five or four years ago I would go toe to toe and start sparring with heavyweights and try to beat each other up in sparring. But I have to be a bit smart, because you can take so much. But before I was like a bit stupid. I would spar anybody, any heavyweight. I would spar Kickboxers, anyone. I used to spar with ’Carnage’ (Nathan Corbette), I would spar with Mark Hunt. I would spar with anybody.”
“Mark Hunt, he was trying to knock me out one day. He couldn’t. That was the first time that we did sparring. Mighty Mo. I don’t know if you know him. Freaking guy is huge. He’s about 330 pounds, maybe 350. He won the Taiwan championships. Huge and I remember that he just wanted to knock me out and all of a sudden I came out with a jab and I dropped him. But he was kinda like, he wanted to hurt me. I remember with Josh Barnett, we were sparring for about an hour and something, and then he kind of like gave up. You know, stories like that. But I’m just lucky that I’m still going, because after all this hard sparring stuff, you know, I’m lucky to stay in the game.”
