Quote Originally Posted by Chris N.
I never was able to find any of his fights, but I remember hearing him talking about this one fight, I believe it was for the title, he says, "While there's guys that have to be carried out of the ring, I had to be carried into the ring." It was probably one of those times where a fighter gets a shot at a title a weight class below their natural weight, and that they had to weighed in at ringside. That was hard time to be a fighter.
I'm sorry to go off topic here but perhaps he got that sluggish feeling pre-fight. Me and my brother (judo player)both get it just before going in to compete. It's not a problem once we start and I almost always finish with too much left in the tank - but still have that pre-fight heavy feeling. Perhaps something to do with the adrenalin. It's not something I feel all the time before working out abut I almost always feel it right before competing even though I've tapered and my bro is the same. I know adrenalin does me a favour when competing because i don't feel pain from the hard hits the same way - i know they were decent shots but that's about it. Still I've spoken to my bro about it and PMed hitmandonny about it and the consensus seems to be to do a nice short, hard burst of work before going in to wake the body up a bit.