Come on you are a professional and you still want to take heavier brain shots and be way more susceptible to cuts which can then be a reappearing problem in your career.
Charles Oliveira gets into a clash of heads this close to his fight and loses out on millions of dollars because he’s too macho to wear headgear. If you want to be all Chute boxing style fine but how about during training camp put on some headgear to at least protect from cuts.
Even if you don’t want to the entire camp how about once you’re past the point of being able to heal in time (couple weeks) throw on some headgear. No one is going to think less of you so your fragile ego will survive.
Charles Oliveira gets into a clash of heads this close to his fight and loses out on millions of dollars because he’s too macho to wear headgear. If you want to be all Chute boxing style fine but how about during training camp put on some headgear to at least protect from cuts.
Even if you don’t want to the entire camp how about once you’re past the point of being able to heal in time (couple weeks) throw on some headgear. No one is going to think less of you so your fragile ego will survive.