{"id":397853,"date":"2022-07-15T19:54:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=397853"},"modified":"2022-07-15T19:54:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:54:04","slug":"thats-how-injuries-start-ufc-featherweight-yair-rodriguez-drops-massive-revelation-just-days-before-his-ufc-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/thats-how-injuries-start-ufc-featherweight-yair-rodriguez-drops-massive-revelation-just-days-before-his-ufc-return\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;That\u2019s How Injuries Start&#8217;- UFC Featherweight Yair Rodriguez Drops Massive Revelation Just Days Before His UFC Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top-ranked UFC featherweight Yair Rodriguez spoke to MMA Junkie in Spanish and revealed his days of actively sparring are behind him. \u2018El Pantera\u2019 is just days away from facing Brian Ortega in the main event of UFC Fight Night and the winner will be in striking distance of a massive title opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez lost his last fight in a closely contested battle against Max Holloway and Ortega was defeated at UFC 266 by Alexander Volkanovski during his effort to capture UFC gold. With both men coming off losses, this fight is imperative in determining who will go far in the UFC\u2019s 145-pound division.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/this-vagabond-has-become-a-shameless-batard-deiveson-figueiredos-former-manager-goes-on-an-all-time-epic-rant-about-flyweight-champion\/\">\u2018This Vagabond has Become a Shameless Ba*tard\u2019- Deiveson Figueiredo\u2019s Former Manager Goes on an All-Time Epic Rant About Flyweight Champion<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-meta\">Yair Rodriguez has put an end to sparring<\/h2>\n<p>Rodriguez\u2019s revelation that he\u2019s stopped sparring has completely taken over the headlines as this practice was popularised by his previous opponent, Max Holloway. The MMA community is divided on this matter, as many believe that sparring is essential to being competent on fight night.<\/p>\n<p>However, Rodriguez believes that sparring sessions serve as a gateway for the advent of injuries.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewProfilePic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewProfilePic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x0iBwXwgjD\">pic.twitter.com\/x0iBwXwgjD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yair Rodriguez (@panteraufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/panteraufc\/status\/1061897284286263296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c(I\u2019m not sparring), and that\u2019s something I\u2019ve been saying for many years now. I\u2019ve shared it with my coaches and my training partners, and I always tell them, \u2018Don\u2019t you dare touch my face. If you hit me, I\u2019m going to hit you.\u2019 That\u2019s how injuries start. That\u2019s the reason why you don\u2019t make it to the fights, because you go in there, and you want to show off in the gym with someone else and then there are injuries.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo no, I\u2019m not interested in taking hits during training. They don\u2019t pay for that. They pay me to fight once I\u2019m up in the cage. I try to save myself from as much impact as I can possibly have to my head.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2022\/07\/yair-rodriguez-ufc-abc-3-video-no-longer-sparring-preserve-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmajunkie.com]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A JUMPING head kick!? <\/p>\n<p>Yair Rodriguez bringing elite striking to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFCLongIsland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFCLongIsland<\/a> Saturday \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6: 2pmET main card on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCFightPass?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ufcfightpass<\/a>, TSN, &amp; RDS <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WxHpcIA00u\">pic.twitter.com\/WxHpcIA00u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC Canada (@UFC_CA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFC_CA\/status\/1547612259056111616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Yair Rodriguez said that he simply won\u2019t forget the art of fighting by following through on his decision to quit sparring.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve been strengthening my body a lot more, lifting more weights, doing better conditioning in ways that don\u2019t put too much wear on my body,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cThat\u2019s my main focus. I\u2019m not going to forget how to fight. I have many, many years in combat sports.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More UFC news:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/im-not-interested-in-helping-him-joe-rogan-explains-why-he-turned-down-the-opportunity-to-have-donald-trump-on-his-podcast-multiple-times\/\">\u201cOne Thing About Izzy That Is Absolutely Unique\u2026.\u201d- John McCarthy Reveals a Skill That Separates Israel Adesanya From the Rest of the Division<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ufc-schedule-for-july-2022\/\">UFC Schedule for July 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/one-thing-about-izzy-that-is-absolutely-unique-john-mccarthy-reveals-a-skill-that-separates-israel-adesanya-from-the-rest-of-the-division\/\">\u201cI\u2019m Not Interested in Helping Him\u201d- Joe Rogan Explains Why He Turned Down the Opportunity to Have Donald Trump on His Podcast Multiple Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow our UFC page for more key UFC updates and news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-ranked UFC featherweight Yair Rodriguez spoke to MMA Junkie in Spanish and revealed his days of actively sparring are behind him. \u2018El Pantera\u2019 is just days away from facing Brian Ortega in the main event of UFC Fight Night and the winner will be in striking distance of a massive title opportunity. Rodriguez lost his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":397854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}