Declaraciones Tras WEC 42(Spoiler)

Publicado: Mar Ago 11, 2009 9:57 pm

Ex-Champ Torres: Don’t Count Me Out
Aug-11-2009
By Frank Curreri

Both fighters were shipped off to the hospital, one for precautionary brain scans after being knocked out, the other for attention to a broken hand.

They were assigned to different kiosks and it was Miguel Torres, the more outspoken of the two, who broke the ice by walking to the room next door to acknowledge the man who had just dethroned him.

“Congratulations, Brian,” Torres told the new WEC bantamweight champion. “You fought a great fight, man. You hit me with some good punches.”

It was a brief and cordial encounter, with Torres lightening the mood before departing.

“I’m just pissed that you broke your left hand, not your right hand,” he joked to Brian Bowles.

Indeed, Bowles’ booming right hand is his most dangerous weapon, and it was that right hand that short-circuited Torres and precipitated his downfall for the first time in five years. While some found the upset victory a bit stunning, it has been equally surprising how well the renowned conqueror has handled being conquered and having his 17-fight win streak halted. Humiliation did not register on Torres’ emotional radar. Neither did self-pity or denial.

“I’m fine, bro, I’m just pissed,” Torres said. “I just got caught. It’s frustrating because I had a great game plan going in, I just didn’t execute it. The one thing that I wasn’t supposed to do, I did: I chased him. I should have stuck more to the game plan.

The game plan had been a simple one: Hit and move. Pound Bowles with jabs and combinations and get out of the way before the heavy-handed challenger could return fire. Once Bowles – who had never went the distance in his pro career – hit the third round, Torres expected the 29-year-old to be of diminished power and he would then “go in for the kill.”

But the script went up in flames early after Torres dazed Bowles with a punching combination.

“I hit him with that right hand and I thought I hurt him enough to where I could chase him,” Torres said. “I overestimated how much he was hurt. I got a little bit overzealous and he caught me with a good shot. I didn’t see the right hand coming and he hurt me. He broke his hand putting me away, so he was hitting me pretty hard.”

After being released from the hospital, Torres went for a bite to eat with his training partners and manager, Dean Albrecht. The ex-champion, who boasts a 36-2 record, wasted no time brainstorming about changes that could be made on his road to redemption. Finding the right answers wasn’t complicated.

“I have coached myself pretty much for the past eight or nine years,” he said. “I have a couple guys in mind to do training camps with them and actually have coaches next time around. If a coach can make me 15 percent better, and I have four different coaches, it will make me a more dangerous fighter than I am now. I’m looking at Mark DellaGrotte and a couple of different strength training coaches and Robert Drysdale as a jiu-jitsu coach. I have guys in mind to work with. It’s just so hard to do that when I have a gym and a family (in East Chicago, Indiana), but I still have time in me left to fight and I’m going to use this loss to catapult my career.”

He is, after all, only 28 years old. He is a cardio machine and as driven to win as any fighter in MMA. The Kryptonite to Torres has always been his remarkable courage. He is truly fearless, and because of that he has taken so many hard punches in three of his past four bouts. It caught up with him against Bowles, who is arguably the biggest puncher the 135-pound division has ever seen. In the heat of battle, Torres seemed to forget the type of force he was dealing with.

“I knew he was powerful enough to hit anybody and take them out,” Torres said. “Brian is a big guy at 135 and I knew he hit hard from his previous fights. My game plan was to stay away from the right hand. My corner told me, ‘If you hurt him don’t chase him. He will still be strong in the first or second round.’ … But my style is to be super-aggressive. That’s all I know. I don’t have a coach to tell me anything different. My corner guys are my training partners, they’re not really my coaches.”

Torres said he expects to take a week or two off from hard training and hopes to return to the cage either in October or November. He is not requesting an immediate rematch, nor does he believe he is deserving of one.

“I don’t believe in immediate rematches,” he said. “I lost my title and I have to earn my way to get it back. I think that’s the way it should be. Whatever (WEC matchmaker) Sean Shelby wants me to do is what I will do. I still have the same mentality: I want to fight the best guys in the world and I’ll fight anybody. If I have to fight one or two fights, I’ll do whatever I have to do to get my title back.”

Make no mistake, Torres believe this defeat is not a catastrophe but an educational experience that will push him to a higher level.

“If anything, getting knocked out is going to make me a smarter fighter,” he said. “It’s going to make me a more dangerous fighter because I’m not going to go out there cocky where I’m going to take a shot to give a shot. I’m going to go out there and be more conservative and smooth in my movements, not just try to manhandle guys.

“I look at the positive side of this situation. The last loss that I had (five years ago to Ryan Ackerman) made me a better fighter. Every great fighter loses – St. Pierre, Anderson Silva, Randy Couture, all the greats lose so I’m not worried about it at all. A great champion is a guy that comes back from a loss and revamps his game. So this will lead to a new Miguel Torres.”

Alguien que la traduzca por aí chicos. No me gustaría hacerlo yo porque mi nivel de inglés es medio y puedo meter la pata demasiadas veces XD

Fuente: http://www.wec.tv/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=21773

Publicado: Mar Ago 11, 2009 10:28 pm

wow... la verdad muy buenas declaraciones de miguel... yo crei que iva a ser diferente debido a que el era un poco creido... pero me doi cuenta que no es creido, simplemente seguridad, y un tipo inteligente en su carrera....
me alegra que lo tome de esa manera
gracias por el posteo

Publicado: Mar Ago 11, 2009 10:42 pm

a ver si kamo lo traduce....sino ni modo

Publicado: Mar Ago 11, 2009 11:51 pm

increible como perdio torres, pero se ve que volvera con mas fuerza