October 4, 2023 7: 30 pm ET
SAN DIEGO – Friends and previous colleagues completing versus each other is typical in sports. Take the NFL, for example, where each Sunday gamers are constantly up versus men with whom they utilized to share the locker space.
Like MMA, football is a violent sport. Unlike MMA, there is no intent to injure with every takeon – just to bring the ball provider down to the grass.
And therein lies the rub, the primary factor why buddies and training partners from the verysame healthclub puton’t like to complete versus each other in MMA. The whole point is to hurt your challenger with every strike.
Bellator flyweight champ Liz Carmouche and Ilima-Lei Macfarlane, nevertheless, view things inadifferentway ahead of their title battle Saturday at Bellator 300.
“Maybe I’m like a various kind of fighter, however I wear’t go into my battles actively attempting to hurt the other individual,” Macfarlane stated Wednesday at the Bellator 300 pre-event news conference. “So it’s truly not a various stateofmind for me, the truth that I’m dealingwith a pal and someone I care about, since I puton’t ever desire to injured, hurt someone. This is our lives. These are our bodies and our health. It actually doesn’t modification the frameofmind for me.”
Added Carmouche: “It’s absolutely a various aspect. We’re not looking to incapacitate individuals, to take them out of their professions. That’s the last thing we desire to do, and it’s absolutelynothing various here. The b