🚨When UFC contender Aaron PICO (USA) took out a future WORLD CHAMPION‼️🔥
Pico is fresh off his first UFC win - where he displayed his sharp boxing to frustrate & damage Former 3x Bellator World Champion🥇Patricio PITBULL (BRA)
But before MMA Pico was 1 of the greatest HS wrestling talents ever seen in USA. At the 2015 US Open Pico took out 2023 World Champion🥇/3x NCAA Champion🥇Zain RETHEFORD (USA/PSU) by 8-5 decision - using some beautiful outside step snatch singles 🔥
Both Pico & Retheford were U17 World Champions🥇at this point in their careers.
Kids from Waconia (MN) school district watch former student @MaxMcenelly win his semifinal bout to become an All-American… Teachers put it up on the projector during the school day so that they could all witness Mad Max in action!
Why we love wrestling. 🙌🏼
The box we just got delivered brought actual tears to my eyes.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE @Raiders
There's truly nothing better than wearing the silver and black, and thank you to @CrosbyMaxx for the newest addition to my Raider jersey wall!
Once a Raider always a Raider!
So What?
When I started doing the social media and photos for UNI one of the things that was most interesting to me was hearing how coaches speak to their athletes, what they yell during big matches, how they follow them out after losses, and how they hype them up beforehand. 10 years in and I could hear my husband from the stands, but sometimes with all the cheering you didn’t really hear what was said or with arms filled with babies I didn’t hear much at all.
This past weekend as I was matside during one of our guys’ matches, our guy got taken down and I heard Doug say “So what”. In that moment I realized just how much he uses that phrase. Guy takes you down- so what? You gave up back points- So what? Call didn’t go your way- So what? Call gets reversed- so what? Crowd goes crazy when you’re scored one- so freaking what?
It is that quick reminder of : if there is still time on the clock, there is still an opportunity to score points and win. It’s a phrase to say don’t let this one score, this one mistake, this one move take you out of the match mentally- go get the next one. If you’ve seen For love of the Game- it’s almost like “clearing the mechanism”.
You’re going to get scored on, things are not going to go your way, more than likely you’re going to fail more times than you succeed- so what? In the moment our mind must be able to focus on getting up, scoring the next match, controlling our breathing and remaining in the match. What is going to be that snap, that flip of a switch, that phrase that reminds you to move on or your athlete and get the next one?