Greg Jackson: I ask guys to finish every fight
MMA trainer Greg Jackson isn’t pleased with some of the recent comments coming from UFC president Dana White, and has…
MMA trainer Greg Jackson isn’t pleased with some of the recent comments coming from UFC president Dana White, and has launched a continuing defense of his team and his coaching.
“I get in there and I ask guys to finish every fight,” Jackson told MMAjunkie.com . “Because here’s the problem with fighting safe: Fighting safe is an illusion.”
“If you fight to not lose, you are giving a guy an opportunity to win for the entire 15 minutes. If you fight to finish a guy, and you finish him, you no longer give him an opportunity to win. So fighting not to lose makes no logical sense.
“You have to have risk on your side; you don’t want to just jump in there like you’re trying to knock a guy out. That’s stupid because you will get knocked out. But fighting to win means that you win the fight.”
“Here is my protocol so everyone is clear as to why I don’t ask people to go to the mount,” he said. “If I ask you to go to the mount, and you get reversed, or scrambles twice, I don’t ask you to go to mount a third time because those two times you got scrambled out.
“For me, the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I love the mount. I made the first half of my career by going to the mount with people like Diego Sanchez going to the mount and knocking people out.”