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| Miguel Torres decided not to rest on his laurels and sit back to enjoy his Hall of Fame career after a tough loss to Brian Bowles.
Torres went in a different direction – an entirely different direction – and committed himself to changing his entire outlook and revamping his training team.Torres is coming off an intensive patch of hard work with jiu-jitsu instructor Robert Drysdale and now plans to live and work with Mark Dellagrotte in Boston. “I want to change the way I finish fights,” Torres said. “I was trying to go out there and put on a show, impress the crowd and make them look at the 135-pound division. I’ve done that enough. It’s time to put my health and safety first.”
According to Torres, he came to feel he could stand up with everyone. The Bowles fight showed him the error of his ways and he now plans to return to the deadly combination of ground game and striking that took him to the top of the bantamweight pile. Torres returns on March 6 against 135-pound contender Joe Benavidez on the same card where Bowles defends his freshly-minted WEC bantamweight belt.”I want Cruz to win,” Torres said, thinking fighters are best after a loss. “I want Brian to lose. He’ll want to come back strong and then I’ll have the best Brian Bowles there is. If he loses that fight against Dominick and he loses the belt, I wouldn’t want a fight with Cruz. I would want Brian Bowles.” Frank Mir, Travis Lutter, Patrick Cote, Stephan Bonnar and Marcus Davis all train with Dellagrotte, and now Torres will add his name to list of fighters who work on their games with Dellagrotte. “Big things are popping back here,” Dellagrotte said. “I just picked up Frank Mir, he is going to be working with us. I have a great relationship with Frank, he is going to be my new project. And Miguel is coming to see us, he is coming off that loss to Bowles, he’s gonna work with us and we will hopefully get his belt back.” Unlike some striking trainers, DellaGrotte has embraced the ground game, and that should be the formula that helps Torres get back to his winning ways. “My mind always thought MMA, but nobody really thought of me as the MMA guy,” Dellagrotte said. “If you’re not putting it all together, you’re missing something. That’s why I shifted my focus from just being a striking coach to actually teaching the whole package.” |
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