Betting alert! UFC 307 title challenger will NOT go to Utah early to acclimatize

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This weekend (Sat. Oct. 5, 2024), UFC 307 will happen roughly 4300 toes above sea degree from contained in the Delta Middle in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah. That’s an necessary issue to think about for each athletes and sports activities bettors alike, as a result of that degree of altitude can severely have an effect on an athlete’s conditioning.

In a well-known instance, cardio machine Cain Velasquez misplaced his UFC Heavyweight title to Fabricio Werdum after gassing out early within the combat. That bout befell in Mexico Metropolis at an elevation over 7300 toes, and Werdum spent over a month on location to complete his coaching camp.

Velasquez didn’t, and he paid the value.

There are quite a few non-title combat examples. Simply watch any UFC occasion hosted in Salt Lake Metropolis, Denver, or Mexico Metropolis, and also you’ll be handled to loads fighters fatigued halfway by way of the second spherical.

Former UFC Bantamweight champion and present title challenger, Julianna Pena, just isn’t apprehensive, nevertheless. Based on “The Venezuelan Vixen,” she’s fought at excessive elevation beforehand with none challenge, as a result of she places within the work and reveals up in form. As such, she deliberate to reach in Salt Lake Metropolis on combat week.

“I’ve fought in Utah earlier than,” Peña instructed MMA Junkie. “I’ve fought in Denver earlier than. I do know that once I went out to Denver three weeks early pondering that the elevation was this gigantic factor that I needed to get ready for, I keep in mind going on the market and after I received my first cardio session achieved, I used to be like, ‘I’m not respiratory onerous. Nothing’s modified. What do you imply?’

“My power coach was like, ‘I instructed you we didn’t want to return out right here early. When you’re in form, you’re in form.’ I’ll be there Monday, and I’ll acclimate. I’ll have the entire week to acclimate, and in the event you’re in form, you’re in form, and you’ve got achieved your work and achieved your job, then that’s the boldness you want. I do know that I’ve that mat time and all the confidence on the earth so far as ensuring that I’m working onerous, in order that’s all that issues.”

Her opponent, UFC Bantamweight strap-hanger Raquel Pennington, lives and trains in Colorado Springs, Colorado at 6000 toes. In a combat that feels prone to go all 25 minutes, might championship spherical cardio be the distinction?

We’ll discover out in only a few days.

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