Dolce: I had very little influence in Penn’s camp
Mike Dolce: “The suggestions that I made, I made them officially, and they were accepted but not responded or reacted to.”
BJ Penn looked probably the worst of his career in his last fight, a drop to featherweight to fight Frankie Edgar. In the weeks after the fight, fingers were blamed and when Penn was asked about nutritionist Mike Dolce said ‘he would never hire him again.’ Dolce had stayed quiet on the issue, but today spoke with MMAJunkie.com:
It was one of the oddest training camps I’ve ever been a part of, and I was there for less than two weeks, physically, in Hawaii, Dolce said. I had very little influence. I made some strong suggestions and very strong observations to members of the team about what I saw, what I’m accustomed to and what I think would really benefit him.
The suggestions that I made, I made them officially, and they were accepted but not responded or reacted to. It was just a matter of that’s the direction he chose to go. He’s either going to win and look like a f-cking genius, or he’s going to not win and he’s going to make the oddsmakers look like geniuses.