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Anthony Cassar (another NCAA Champion)
Cassar is a beast. He's the only guy to beat Gable Steveson in college, and he did it twice Steveson's freshman year.
Anthony Cassar (another NCAA Champion)
You're getting ahead of your self you are only suppose to do all stuff after you've won two belts and refused to defend themVery dumb by Bo. He should just make his own team of yesmen and do coke and become an alcoholic. Make a shitty whiskey or assault old men in bars. THAT'S how you become an mma icon.
We all heard of Bo Nikal and his plans to conquer 185 and become P4P #1. And many of us are already on the hype train.
However Bo Nikal is not alone. Roughly a year ago Bo Nikal teamed up with American TOP team to build a super gym. Apparently they are going to cycling different MMA coaches from ATT prime up there
The gym is a 12 minute drive away from Penn State. Bo is actively recruiting members of the Nittany Lions Wrestling Team. From what I understand this team is the Patriots of Collegiate Wrestling. Championship after championship. Home many of the best wrestlers in the nation.
In addition, this new ATT is next door to the M2 trading center— a wrestling academy run by Olympic Gold Medalist David Taylor.
From what I understand NCAA champ Anthony Cassar (another NCAA Champion), Musa Alsulaimani (former Penn State boxer), and Roman Bravo-Young (another NCAA Champion) are already training their and more are to come.
Could this gym become a conveyor belt of champions???
Don't you find it a little ironic to be first-name-basis mentioning "Alex" like he didn't get taken down by a greek jobber in his UFC debut just 10 month ago? Not to mention choked out in his MMA debut.LOL, he's feasted on cans and is already being touted by the sherdong brainiacs as being able to step in and beat Izzy and Alex.
Both Izzy and Alex would KO him as soon as he tried to close distance.
He obviously is a future threat to 185 but that is like a year or two away. And at least he's not getting the Pico treatment of being thrown in with skilled veterans right away.
This is how they explain it on their website:
"Penn State Boxing has was established in 1928 as a NCAA sanctioned sport. From 1923 to 1954, boxing was the No 1. Varsity sport at Penn State. Boxing is no longer an NCAA sanctioned sport, but the tradition created at Penn State still continues as a club sport with a competitive team option through the National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA). Currently 24 colleges and universities compete in the NCBA."
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After 1960, the NCAA no longer sanctioned boxing. In response, the NCBA was founded in 1976.
NCBA member schools are encouraged to develop their instructional and intramural programs with emphasis on the teaching of fundamental novice boxing skills. In order to be eligible to participate in an NCBA member school, a collegiate boxer must be a full-time student at an accredited institution at which he/she is attending for graduation.
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You cannot teach the punching power of Pereira anymore than you can the punching power of Ngannou; punchers are born they are not made.I don't think 24 is "too old" to learn good enough striking. Alex Perreira didn't begin training Muay Thai until he was like 23 and Bo is probably as good of an athlete or better, and Bo will be getting way better and more specialized training than Alex did from the starts of their careers since he's the golden goose.
That said, I agree with your sentiment, starting at 24 even if you have an elite background going in can be somewhat late for development depending on the athlete. Still, Bo probably doesn't need to have Izzy or Robs level of striking to become champion anyways.
You cannot teach the punching power of Pereira anymore than you can the punching power of Ngannou; punchers are born they are not made.
Yes.how many of these guys were molested
You mean the guy who was a round from being world champ despite being pudgy and a worse wrestler than Bo?
Needs a step up in competition to really see where he's at. He's been having confidence boosting fights but not really being tested at the top level. We won't know how much he's improved until he's willing to step up in competition again to see where he's at currently.Meh, Pico's looking pretty damn good right now.
I don't think it's that black and white. People have natural power but there's A LOT you can do to drastically improve punching power and speed. I would know because I did it to improve my punching power. My punches were weak before but I studied the mechanics of a punch and analyzed power punchers and their style of training and their style of punching and figured out a bunch of stuff on my own to improve my punching power. A lot of work goes into punching power, I think comments like that undermine the amount of work some fighters put into developing punching power.You cannot teach the punching power of Pereira anymore than you can the punching power of Ngannou; punchers are born they are not made.
Well his next fight is a good step up. Kennedy is game as hell and good everywhere.Needs a step up in competition to really see where he's at. He's been having confidence boosting fights but not really being tested at the top level. We won't know how much he's improved until he's willing to step up in competition again to see where he's at currently.
Nice. Interested to see the outcome of that fight. I do think he was pushed too fast in the beginning but that was also his choice. After the first fight people around him should've been aware that he wasn't ready for that level of competition yet. The bright lights and pressure was getting to him. Probably could've avoided a lot of early losses.Well his next fight is a good step up. Kennedy is game as hell and good everywhere.
He should be also training with Buchecha in Florida ATT. Buchecha is 13x bjj world champion, a very good wrestler and fuckin huge. If Bo can survive 2 minutes with Buchecha, no MW will be a threat to him on the ground.
Buchecha is 255lbs, way, way bigger than Bo.Buchecha would go on Bo airlines if they ever grappled