Xavier: They went on, like, hour rants. Coach [Jason] Parillo was getting on our ass. \u2018I\u2019ve had world champions and world champions spar all the time hard, you all should have no trouble sparring.\u2019 We were all just looking at each other. But Bisping made a good point, I will not lie. We all told him we never spar on fight week, but he said, \u2018Yes, OK. But you\u2019ve also never been on The Ultimate Fighter. So then we were like, \u2018Fair.\u2019 Still, you\u2019re hard sparring and you fight literally in a few days.<\/p>\n
The intensity, they showed a little bit [on the episode], but it was hard sparring. They were like, \u2018Everybody go light,\u2019 but no, it was hard sparring. They were pushing us super hard, everybody\u2019s getting banged up. I\u2019m pretty sure some stuff happened where people got hurt and stuff, so then they realized, \u2018Oh shit, maybe we need to tone back on the hard sparring.\u2019 I mean, we could have avoided this if you just kind of listened to us, but I understand. We\u2019re his team, we\u2019re f*cking down 0-2. Bisping, he\u2019s super competitive, which I love for him, but at the same time he\u2019s taking it out on us. So he\u2019s like, \u2018F*ck it, we\u2019re hard sparring. We\u2019re training hard all the time.\u2019 We\u2019re going to get a win somewhere. It doesn\u2019t matter where we get the win, we\u2019re going to get a win somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xavier: They went on, like, hour rants. Coach [Jason] Parillo was getting on our ass. \u2018I\u2019ve had world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-762200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}