UFC: Cory Sandhagen gives former opponent sincere advice

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UFC bantamweight contender Cory Sandhagen has given what seems a sincere advice to former opponent Rob Font after Font lost woefully to a flyweight champion.

Cory Sandhagen, called The Sandman, once won Font in the octagon. If there were any fighter that could tell a bit about Rob Font’s skills and strength, it was Sandhagen who now spoke to correct a big mistake Font keeps making.

Prior to Sandhagen’s statement, Font has suffered defeat in four of his five most recent contests, and was likely to suffer more because of what Sandhagen called an archaic approach to a particular situation.

Sandhagen said, ‘If you are gonna stand really wide (like Font) — which is a completely, totally okay thing to do — when guys connect and they’re deep on you, like, you don’t get to catch it (the takedown) early in the chain where I could keep him in front of me… I have to start thinking, ‘Turn my back,’ if I don’t wanna get taken down.

‘I know from experience, that dude, Rob Font, does not like to give up his back. It seems like it’s like, a golden rule.

‘To be completely honest with you, getting up is one thousand times easier if you’re willing to get really good and invest enough time in giving up your back, breaking hands… being able to seal off space and be able to build yourself up.

‘That’s modern-day MMA… This whole old idea of ‘never give up your back if you’re on bottom’ is archaic and, in my opinion, super inefficient.’

Font presently has to leak his wounds while watching the flyweight champion, Deiveson Figueiredo, who was placed among the ten best fighters of the bantamweight division for defeating him.

It is yet to be seen how many in the division who think that Font, who claimed that one of his losses was from forgetting how to wrestle, was the right person to have welcomed the bantamweight debutant into the circle.