Fight Week is approaching and the card is UFC 125 on New Years Day. The main event for the lightweight championship will feature Frankie Edgar going up against Gray Maynard. The winner gets a matchup to unify the WEC title and UFC title against Anthony Pettis and his crazy kick.
For the rest of this week I will be posting some interesting training footage from many of the different fighters on the card. Another matchup on the card is Marcus Davis and Jeremy Stephens. I have a feeling someone will be knocked out in this one. A loss for either one could put their UFC career to a finish, so this fight should be a good one.
In my search to bring you some of the type of training that these MMA fighters do I came across Marcus Davis performing a different kind of movement to help with his ground and pound. The movement was “created” by Kevin Kearns who is one of the top strength and conditioning coaches in MMA at the time. Using a type of Bosu Ball and light dumbbells Davis lays on the ball and mimics ground and pounding an opponent. As you can see the ball provides an unstable enviroment in which Davis needs to be firing on all cylinders to keep doing the movement correctly. I will let Kearns do the rest of the explaining.
Train Hard! Train Smart!
