“I love the UFC but I didn’t really get into it like that,” Davis said.
“But when I started watching [my girlfriend], and then I started to do it, then I
was like, ‘Oh man, this is crazy. I love this.’ After that it was just
nonstop UFC - who’s fighting, where is the fight, when am I training?
It was just an unbelievable feeling.”
“I kind of felt like, ‘Oh man, basketball is hard,’ but when you’re training for a fight, you have to go to a whole different level,” Davis said. “The training is so extreme. I thought I trained hard playing basketball, but when you’re doing mixed martial arts, you have to train even harder.”
“I kind of felt like, ‘Oh man, basketball is hard,’ but when you’re training for a fight, you have to go to a whole different level,” Davis said. “The training is so extreme. I thought I trained hard playing basketball, but when you’re doing mixed martial arts, you have to train even harder.”
And it's paying off exactly as he'd hoped.
“I’ve kind of added on a lot of muscle. That was the point,” Davis
said. “My game is I’m a big guy. I pound. That’s what I do. So if I
lose a lot of weight, I’m like the average player. I want to stay in my
body frame and my weight, but (be) more conditioned and more toned.”
There's a quote from Doc in that piece that I completely agree with. I'm all for guys doing non-basketball things to get in better shape. Things like MMA teach you different things about your body. It's very useful. It'll help him move a little better... maybe a little quicker. I like this approach.
Another
plus... if anyone wants to get into his face, he can drop them in .5
seconds and apply a rear naked choke before the refs can do anything
about it. I just want guys like Jason Maxiell to keep that in mind.
