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GSP Talks His Fight With Thiago Alves, Injury
Posted on Jul 15, 2009
From his blog which you can read by clicking HERE:
I'm very focused, the fight is going well until the fourth round when I try an arm-bar from his back and something happened...I felt my right abductor cracking...something went wrong. I hear the noise of the ligament ripping. I end up in my guard and Thiago Alves landing big shot on me. I hold his head down, I wrap his arm, protect myself and I make a prayer in my head: "Please God, help me to get out of this situation, I work so hard to win this fight and give me the strength to keep going and fight well..."' When I came back in the locker room, I was mad because I didn't control the fight and I was not able to finish Alves on the ground like I had been planning to do. What made me mad a little bit is that Fabio Hollanda, a guy that was teaching me a couple of years ago, was in a Florida training Thiago Alves even though a month before he was training with me at the wrestling club. I think it was a cheap shot and he should have told me. But I forgive him - I will be more careful with him next time. When I came back to the locker room, even though I was in a lot of pain, I asked my trainer John Danaher to show me what I been doing wrong during that fight to allow Thiago Alves to stand up so many times. He showed it to me, so like that it's fresh in my mind and I know right away what I did wrong in the fight and I will never do the same mistake again. |
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