Sometimes confidence pays off inside the cage. However, cockiness is not necessarily your greatest defense against trained mixed martial arts warriors either.
Don’t be this guy!
Look, confidence is a great thing, you should definitely have it and you need to believe in yourself and your abilities, especially in a sport like MMA.
You are the only person in there, not your team, not your mom and not your really big friend. So yeah, have all the confidence in the world!
But then there’s being a cocky tool. What does that look like? Just check out the video above. In the clip we see Jason R. Solomon walking out to the cage, waving to the crowd and doing some sort of over the top entrance in to the cage.
It’s obvious he thinks he’s the beez neez. Then when he’s walking around the cage he makes sure to stop at his opponent who is facing the cage and tries to get in his face.
Then, we get to the actual fight, which lasts all of about 10 seconds before Mr. Cocky gets KTFO!
So yeah, lesson here is don’t be this guy and if you are already this guy, then at least last longer than 10 seconds.
