It is never ideal to come into any sport event, let alone a fight, at less than 100 percent.
The stakes are orbiting at stratospheric levels for UFC on FOX. Neither fighter could, in good conscience, pull out of the fight unless they were on their death bed. While that may be a bit too much hyperbole, it is not that for from the reality of the situation, is it?
Ariel Helwani, from B/R MMA content partner MMAFighting.com, recently floated some scintillating info via two different videos: one with UFC head honcho Dana White and the other with his favorite media partner in crime, Ben Fowlkes.
Let’s start with a spinet of the transcript from the White video shall we?
Ariel: There was a report that I had received that Cain did get injured at some point…did you hear that?
Dana: Yeah. But nothing that…neither guy has been injured in a way that would in any way shape or form effect the fight.
Both videos are worth watching for various reasons, but the biggest takeaway for this content creator was the notion that perhaps Cain is not at 100 percent.
To add some perspective, B/R MMA caught up with Cain’s head coach Javier Mendez at the UFC on FOX open workouts earlier this week, and he had this to say in paraphrased form: this is not the best Velasquez they can get…but he is better than the fighter that beat down Brock Lesnar back at UFC 121.
So whether Velasquez is at 100 percent or not, we can quote his head trainer as saying he is not at his best. So will “not his best” be enough to beat Junior Dos Santos and defend his heavyweight belt? Will his long layoff from fighting translate into tangible ring rust?
Enough conjecture—are you ready for some fighting?
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