Dolce puts Hendricks on blast for lifestyle outside of fight camp
Johny Hendricks: “He carries too much body fat. It’s extremely unhealthy to dehydrate the muscles, where you can’t dehydrate the body fat.”
Conditioning coach Mike Dolce has been by the side of former welterweight champion Johny Hendricks in some of his biggest fights, but despite that has critics for his friend and client:
“Johny Hendricks has such problems with his weigh-ins, because he balloons up in the offseason,” Dolce told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “He carries too much body fat. It’s extremely unhealthy to dehydrate the muscles, where you can’t dehydrate the body fat. So it comes out of all the vital areas of the body and that causes all these poor performances.”
Dolce praised Lawler for living the life of a professional athlete year-round. He wants to see the same level of commitment for Hendricks.
“You don’t deserve to beat these guys if you’re not living the same lifestyle,” Dolce said. “Talent and a hard punch is only gonna get you so far. You gotta earn the victory long before the fight.”