Bobby Lashley: "If I Didn't Have These Problems, It Would Have Been a Pretty Quick Win for Me"

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If I wasn’t so dehydrated I’d be crying right now

wasn’t your fault?

Gotcha.

Bobby Lashley is to MMA what Bobby Flay is to MMA

MMA is gross

If my grandma had wheels, she’d be a bicycle

to say he battled the horror of seeing his own bloody.
Trying to ride in on Lesnar’s coattails aint working out so good, huh Robert?

I quite like the sentiment of his closing lines.

I really can’t bring myself to rag on him, because I mean he’s just a person and he’s rowing up the river and sometimes maybe it’s best if us internet types don’t fling so much mud at him from the riverbank.

People aren’t doubting him to his face. He doesn’t need to spend his spare time reading people like me doing it to him.

 " If I actually knew how to fight, I would have won easy."
 “If Griggs would have tapped, I would have won easy.”
  “If I was the headliner, I woulda won easy.”
  “If I could have used steriods, I would have won easy.”
  “If the ref would have stepped in and stopped the fight before I actually had to fight, I would have won easy.”
  Bobby, I don’t hate you. I hate excuses, be a man, accept that you were over hyped and lost to a no body. The only thing you are doing is coming across like a little bitch. You lost.

Lashley=the brand new TITO. no one is ever 100%….oh wait, ya….like he said right above me

If it wasn’t for him punching me in the face repeatedly.

He got hit, didn’t like it, then quit. I’d love to see that happen again.

Chad Griggs is a full time firefighter who had only fought once in the last two and a half years.Yes Lashley should of beat him, that is whole reason they hand picked that opponent. Perhaps if they stopped turning down the Shane del Rosario fight that Strikeforce has been trying to put together ever since they first signed Lashley then maybe fans wouldn’t be so hard on him.

Most obviously this.

And I would in NO way put him in the same boat as Carwin. Well, maybe the same boat but a different compartment, like that ice-tray thing with the titanic that didn’t work and everyone was still effed. Carwin’s problem was conditioning no matter how you slice it, and though I thing he trained hard for the fight he didn’t condition in a way that really pushed his endurance the same way a fight would. Or at least a fight with two contestants that big and Carwin throwing that many punches.

Dehydration is no joke, and can seriously impact your performance. I don’t think Lashley ending up in the hospital on an I.V. after the fight was a work (oh hai luke). What I can’t wrap my head around is how he got dehydrated. He was well underweight, and didn’t have to cut at all. An athlete at his level, with the level of trainers he has around him, has NO EXCUSE not to keep him hydrated and know the consequences of dehydration. The only way this makes sense to me is if this is some weird hold-over from his military days. And all hydration is not the same, your body takes a while to fully restore/deplete itself, that’s why fighters can cut tons of water-weight for weigh-ins, but if Lashley was dehydrated for an extended time during training leading up to the fight it could have a serious effect.

Either way, both guys had a physical problem that they need to correct, not by talking about science but changing their habits inside the gym. Carwin has a tougher road to hoe getting right physically, but is solid in his skill set (not that you can’t always improve/fine tune). Lashley looked decent for a rookie fighter, but not like any world-beating prospect. If the dehydration really affected him physically, then fine, fix it and move on. But it wasn’t his only problems. He still has a long way to go with technique and didn’t look comfortable with the physical violence of the fight. He’ll have to figure out if he has a Brock-like aversion to getting punched, a lack of a mean-streak like out school Dan Severn, and if he’ll be able to overcome this on fight night.