The Preventing Nerds have to regroup after a couple of powerful losses within the UFC, and staff chief Pablo Sucupira is aware of that. Again to Sao Paulo, Brazil after Jean Silva’s Noche UFC loss to Diego Lopes this previous weekend in Texas, Sucupira and fellow coach Flavio Alvaro went straight to the gymnasium to offer their athletes a message of help.
Silva misplaced by knockout to Lopes every week after Caio Borralho and Mauricio Ruffy additionally suffered their first UFC defeats in Paris, with a choice to Nassourdine Imavov and a one-sided submission loss to Benoit Saint Denis, respectively.
The dialog was posted Thursday on Carlos Prates’ Youtube channel.
“That is the second to be humble and put our toes on the bottom,” Sucupira mentioned. “We’ll pay attention extra, we are going to repair what must be fastened, and put issues again in place. And ensure, guys, that Caio, Carlos, Jean and Ruffy are on path to turning into champions. We’ll by no means change that mindset.”
The Sao Paulo-based group had an unbelievable rise within the UFC due to Borralho, Silva, Prates and Ruffy’s performances in recent times, however they’ve all misplaced as soon as since December.
“If now we’ve got to work extra and speak much less, like everybody’s saying, I’m keen to,” Sucupira mentioned. “I’m keen to tone down a couple of issues, step away from some luxuries, return to the essence we had. I feel perhaps in a means we lived favored champions earlier than we had been champions and misplaced a little bit of our essence, which is figure properly. Our essence was at all times admired.”
Sucupira appeared on the three current losses as “a fragile second” for the staff however an opportunity to interrupt down the errors made. The MMA coach, nonetheless, received’t ignore the nice issues they’ve accomplished over the previous few years.
“[Silva] misplaced to No. 1 of the division, [Borralho] misplaced to the No. 1 of the division, [Ruffy] misplaced a struggle that was a big leap. All that for a staff that has been within the UFC for 2 and a half years,” Sucupira mentioned. “Earlier than we speak concerning the wrongs, I needed to speak concerning the rights. We’ve created one thing new, a brand new method to struggle, a brand new method to promote a staff, a brand new imagem for an athlete. We created a staff, a household, a bond by no means seen earlier than. And we made it to the highest very quick.
“To start with, don’t overlook every little thing we did proper and every little thing we’ve created, and perceive that it has all taken us to a sure stage. Be humble to know that amongst every little thing we did proper, there have been a couple of issues we did unsuitable, and we’ll have to alter that. There’s a line that separates being within the UFC from attending to the belt. It’s a line everyone at all times desires of [crossing], and that’s our dream from day one.”
Prates, the primary one to lose within the UFC in a choice towards Ian Machado Garry in December, rebounded with a violent knockout towards Geoff Neal to arrange a conflict with Leon Edwards for Nov. 15 in New York. Borralho, Silva and Ruffy are at the moment awaiting their subsequent task.
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