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State athletic commissions are notoriously inept. From a fighter's perspective their incompetence is usually benign and amounts to little more than an annoyance. But if you fight often enough, though, you can generally expect some commission blockhead to negatively affect your career about once a year.
Hopefully Yohon Banks can make it through the remainder of 2010 without another commission infringing on his ability to compete and earn living as a fighter. The Florida State Athletic Commission's ruling that Banks was not a competitive opponent for Bobby Lashley was utterly arbitrary and unfounded. Banks is 2-1, Lashley is 4-0. Banks also has eight professional boxing bouts to his credit.
I'd been training Yohon for five weeks to fight Lashley before the Commission pulled the plug on the bout. Let me tell you something, the Florida Commission did the fans a disservice by not allowing that bout to proceed. I would never have trained Yohon for this bout if I thought he was merely an "opponent" to feed to the Lashley hype machine. I've been involved in this sport for a long time and have a realist's sensibility in judging a fighter's ability. Yohon Banks is nowhere near a long-shot against Bobby Lashley. I'm not talking about having a "puncher's chance". I mean Lashley was going to have to deal with Yohon Banks.
So now the proposed replacement for Banks is Wes Sims (last seven wins against opponents with a combined record of 5-19) on eight days notice. Ridiculous.
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These principles, or "laws" as I've called them, began to take form in the early 1990's after I became head wrestling coach at UC Davis. At the time UCD was a non-scholarship program competing in the tough Pacific-10 conference, among the nation’s top two or three wrestling conferences. The absence of scholarships, coupled with the athletic department's ongoing threat to cut the wrestling program, made it difficult to recruit top wrestling talent. In a conference where high school state champions are commonplace, I took over a team comprised primarily of young men whose greatest wrestling accomplishment was placing in their high school league championship.
In order to be competitive in the Pac-10 it was clear I not only had to develop the team physically and technically, but because nearly every opponent was vastly more accomplished, I had to nurture their fighting spirit and competitive resolve as well. Drawing on my own experiences, observations and research, I assembled a list of several qualities I deemed essential for success in the combative arena. I dubbed the list "Lajcik’s Laws" and made them the foundation for all our training.
Over time, as the wrestlers began to embody the "Laws", their improvement was nothing short of profound. One sterling example was the team's 118-pound wrestler, who had a record of 1-19 his sophomore season, the year before I arrived.
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