Jay Hieron will tell you repeatedly that the toughest guys don’t always win MMA tournaments. Instead, he says, the guys who fight the toughest do.
It’s both a slight at himself and a pat on his own back.
Hieron, of course, recently won Bellator Fighting Championships’ season-four welterweight tournament as the early favorite. And though his close wins and fighting style have been heavily panned in recent weeks, he recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio his strategy was sound.