“Someone should study it to see how far a human can go.”
Coach Pedro Lay talks about Yoel Romero, the 42-year-old UFC title challenger, who at a glance will make you realize how athletic you really are.
Romero fights Israel Adesanya, whose own legend grows with each fight, to try to become a champion for the first time in his career.
He has played his last two fights, but the middleweight king Adesanya wants him and Dana White, the president and king maker of the UFC, to grant him his wish.
Romero watches and, apparently, has the impression of being carved in stone.
“When you talk to the guys he fought, let them tell you how the fight went,” said White.
“Every time they hit him, it hurts their. They said it was literally like fighting a piece of concrete, and no one who had never fought it wanted to fight it again. They don’t want to fight it anymore. It’s the kind of thing that would make a guy who is the champion say, “I don’t need this shit,” is it?
Why Yoel Romero is the most feared fighter since Mike Tyson at its peak
UFC commentator Joe Rogan said, “If you search the dictionary for a sports monster, Yoel Romero comes to mind.”
He’s a guy who swings a hammer with one hand – even the mighty Thor needs two.
Again, Romero is 42 years old.
So what does Romero do to stay in such intimidating form? Several open workouts and Instagram videos gave us a little insight into how the monster was created.
The Olympic silver medalist has a mentality and a conviction as strong as the external framework he sports.
You can imagine as much, because the dedication it takes to maintain a body like that is crazy.
“You don’t just become a wrestler, you are born a wrestler. God has to choose a person and create a wrestler,” he said.
And as Pedro Lay alluded to, it only gets stronger and it represents a kind of anomaly.
During his training sessions with Lay, Romero can be seen with a lot of resistance training in combat situations to help his explosiveness, but he also practices typing while maintaining weights.
“I get in shape faster, so in these [later] years we can train less, “said Romero.
“We realized that with less training, I got in shape faster. We could overtrain and we don’t want that. “
Lay said he doesn’t know when his “student” will stop waking up to fight.
“Yoel was the greatest wrestler on the Cuban national team during two Olympic cycles. And it has been said that his strength has no limits, ”he said.
“He is 42 years old and his strength is still increasing. We do not know when it will end. “
The training he’s doing is the kind of thing that would wake up guys about half his age.
Romero has the wrestling abilities to match all of the greats who have entered the octagon, but his formidable power has become the stuff of legends.
“They don’t know where, how or when I’m going to strike. And when I hit, I hit hard, ”he said.
Anderson Silva seemed unbeatable until 2013 when he met Chris Weidman. Since then, he has won only once in eight outings and is now 44 years old. His powers started to wane at 36 and, yes, the broken leg didn’t help him, but it’s a typical mark for UFC fighters.
Chuck Liddell, Ken Shamrock, Rampage Jackson – there are many other names. It’s almost unknown for someone like Romero at 42 to do what he does.
What an animal he really is.