Interview with Mac Danzig, vegan MMA fighter

[Big Good Wolf]

A good, positive article.
http://www.ufc.com/news/Mac-Danzig-Diet ... bout-Vegan

[V-Igor]

Nice interview.

But now you have fighters turning to similar diets for health reasons – guys like Jon Fitch, who use those diets for their training camps but not necessarily for moral or ethical reasons. So people see him doing well and they think, ‘Ok.’

Jake Shields has been a longtime vegetarian and he eliminates dairy and goes Vegan and people go, ‘Oh .’ And more and more people started doing it, so I don’t find myself getting criticized as much. I’ve been getting more and more positive feedback. People do seem more curious about the diet and more accepting.”

Things like that are really beneficial to the vegan movement.

[NatB]

His point about training in the morning before eating especially when cutting is interesting. I do regular 7am sessions but just can't on an empty stomach.

[NatB]

Thanks for sharing this by the way.

[Twoism]

Thanks for the link. Had to post this on facebook, hopefully any interested friends/workmates will take Mac Danzig more serious than they do me. He's a pro MMA fighter ffs

[NatB]

I get comments from mates saying "oh he's shit!" and I just say "yeah and thats why he's figting UFC and you aren't!" Not sure how he'll go in his next fight his opponent is younger and has more recent wins under his belt. Am sure that will give people an excuse to go " oh its cos hes vegan" if he loses. But he always has a cool head going into fights, he's been around a while. Hope he can get a good submission early on!