Rampage Jackson comments on Mike Dolce’s loss
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- April
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My blog is the official posting spot for TUF7 middleweight competitor, Mike Dolce.
Mike was selected to fight in the opening round of the single elimination tournament and, unfortunately, lost his fight. After the loss, Mike made some comments on this blog stating that he was a little over trained and tired going into his fight. Many readers saw this as a cop out , an excuse, or what have you.
Some of the less then flattering comments include :
– yes your blog did make you sound like a [expletive] that was crying about losing a fight. – Dolce is an alright guy but come on he talked [expletive] and then did nothing. Fights a guy that is tough and ends up losing again. – this blog entry did not really leave me with the feeling that Dolce shouldered the loss as he says. He says that he doesn’t blame anyone else for the loss and that it is squarely on his shoulders. If he really feels that way about the results of the fight why is he talking up the excessive training and the injury in the first place. At least in my interpretation of his blog, Dolce clearly shows how upset he was about those issues. I got the distinct feeling that he did in fact blame the training/coaching of team Rampage for his loss.
Well, it looks like Quinton Jackson agrees with Mike; he even offers an apology. Rampage has his own TUF7 blog on ign.com and made the following comments after reading Dolce’s blog:
I read that Mike Dolce may have thought he was overtrained going into his fight. My bad on that. The thing about Mike Dolce being overtrained is that a lot of those guys came into the show training real hard because they were cast months in advance, and my dumb ass was not aware of that. My whole theory is to not to overtrain guys, just to have them do enough to be ready to fight. Mike Dolce said that he was at his breaking point, but I did not catch it or understand what he was talking about, so we kept pushing him. Had he been more specific or explicit in not wanting to go any further, I would have let up a lot. I made a lot of mistakes with him because I didn’t have enough time to get to know him and what he’d respond to in training. I blame myself for that loss. Mike, if you readin’ this, I’m sorry man.
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on Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 10:01 pm by Larry Vollmer.
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Very classy comments from Rampage. I can see why Dolce was not more forceful in his protests. He was a relative newbie being trained by one of the best fighters and trainers in the world and could not come across as a puss. It shoes how seriously Quentin took the training of these guys that he still cares enough to make a public apology like this.
If he was training so much maybe he should have “overtrained” on some kind of a ground game.
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