Velasquez on AKA’s Injury Rate: ‘We train hard, we spar hard, but it’s not just our gym’

By BJPENN.COM News - June 10, 2015

UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez is no stranger to being injured, but the UFC champ fights on, and faces a formidable opponent in interim champion Fabricio Werdum in this weekend’s UFC 188 main event.

In this new clip from BJPENN.COM’s Layzie The Savage, the UFC Heavyweight champion discusses AKA’s training methods, and the injuries that occur in all MMA camps.

UFC 188’s Gilbert Melendez: “I still have a lot of fight in me”

This article appeared first on BJPENN.COM

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