Confidence v Arrogance

[Master]

Trinidad was confident...... Vargas was arrogant.

Tito was silently confident and Vargas was arrogantly confident. Only difference is Vargas looked foolish afterwards whereas if Tito lost he would not have.

[J_Undisputed]

I look at it as Confidence + Negligence = Arrogance. You can be confident but when you neglect what could go wrong, you're just being a jerk. When you take care of the details (practice, train, press yourself to be better and proficient at what you do, it goes a long way toward removing negligence/doubt and building confidence. It affords you the humility that becomes the deciding factor in keeping you confident but grounded. 2 fighters can have the same amount of confidence, but the one that believes he still has reason to be cautious avoids crossing over into arrogance. A man possesses confidence where as arrogance possesses the man.