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“The day after the Petroski fight, I was in the hotel and I was like, ‘We gotta get on some stuff. We gotta fix this now!’” he said, beaming with excitement. “We made an entirely new workout schedule, I have a jiu jitsu coach, I have a boxing coach, I have an MMA coach, and we’re getting it down so that I don’t get taken down and held down by a wrestler like Petroski and I can strike with a striker like Cesar (Almeida), and make up for the mistakes I made in my first two fights.”
It undoubtedly sounds odd to some that people reach the highest level in mixed martial arts and still have so much they need to change and don’t know, but there’s a reason everyone knows the old adage “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
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Before he got to the UFC, Budka had gone 7-1 in his previous eight fights, with his lone setback coming by split decision in a bout with Azamat Bekoev, who just defeated Zachary Reese in his own short-notice debut earlier this year.
Things were working, nothing felt broken, and so nothing appeared in need of fixing. But a stoppage loss against Almeida and his miserable weekend opposite Petroski illuminated the issues that needed to be addressed.
