“I still think about it all the time,” Dobson said of the loss to the Australian grappler. “A loss always hurts, but what got me through it was that I was legitimately injured. I had a bucket-handle meniscus tear for about four years. So, for the last three fights I’ve had to deal with that. I think that’s why I’m a lot happier now because now I’m one hundred percent. I can actually run, I can do roadwork, I can wrestling I can do all of those things again so it’s almost like I’m falling in love with MMA all over again, instead of having to substitute certain exercises so I don’t hurt my knee more But I’d love to get that one back for sure .
That’ll have to wait, and that’s where the ugly comes in, because dobsonian estimated it took 17 hours to fly to Abu Dhabi for his UFC 280 fight against Armen Petrosyan. But he doesn’t care. He can fight, he’s healthy, and he’s looking forward to getting back into the win column. And that’s good for the 30-year-old, even if it’s hard to sit back and smell the roses when preparing for a fight.
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“It’s hard to live in this moment because of the training and everything that comes with it, but it’s an experience that I really enjoy, and something that I do from time to time, it’s m sit down and say, ‘Wow, I’ve been training for so long and we’re finally here. This is what allows me to train. I haven’t taken too many breaks, so it’s easy to mentally exhausting, but when I sit down and look at how long it took, where I’ve been and how far I’ve come, it definitely makes the days go by a lot faster.
Not the robberies, but enough about that and let’s hear more about that knee injury.
“I tore my knee in 2016 or 2017, and I just had to suck it,” said Dobson, who has basically fought his entire pro career with a bad wheel. And when you’re surrounded by legitimate tough guys like Mark Coleman, Matt Brown and late powerlifting legend Louie Simmons, a young fighter can almost feel sheepish to admit he’s less than a hundred percent down.
