Dan Ige avoids listening to commentary whereas finding out fights as a lot as he can.
Ige can be again in motion to tackle former two-division Bellator champion Patricio “Pitbull” Freire at UFC 318 on Saturday. It’s a giant battle for each males, as Ige needs to maintain climbing the featherweight rankings, whereas “Pitbull” appears to show he can nonetheless be a drive regardless of shedding his UFC debut.
Forward of battle evening, Ige did his greatest to make sure there was no further voices throughout his tape examine.
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Dan Ige Skips Commentary Throughout Movie Research
Dan Ige has lengthy been a pupil of the battle sport and he consistently makes enhancements throughout his preparation. It’s clear that listening to commentary doesn’t issue into his pre-fight routine, and he defined why throughout an interview with MMAFighting.
“Even once I watch movie and examine movie, I attempt to watch it with out commentary,” Ige mentioned. “As a result of once more, they’ll say one thing and also you’ll robotically nearly imagine what they are saying. It turns into a part of your reality, which could not even be the reality. It’s another person’s reality or what they see within the second. I don’t know methods to repair that. It simply is what it’s.”
Ige wasn’t precisely thrilled when he heard the commentary staff speaking in regards to the referee’s determination to cease his final battle with Sean Woodson, quite than his personal efficiency.
“So far as the second goes, I really feel prefer it didn’t rob my second,” Ige mentioned. “I used to be in there, the ref stopped the battle, the gang erupted and I embraced it. After I went again to the press convention room, the media they introduced it up, the controversy and this and that I’m like what controversy? Then I went on-line and also you learn the feedback and also you hear the commentary they usually positively play a giant function into that.
“They’re simply saying what they see instantly. It form of sucks as a result of it does robs from me just a little bit. However then once more, on the finish of the day, I nonetheless acquired a win on my file. I nonetheless acquired two checks. I can’t be mad about it.”
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