{"id":33725,"date":"2024-05-03T06:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T06:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/jack-shore-welsh-fighters-love-hate-return-in-rio-de-janeiro\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T06:30:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T06:30:03","slug":"jack-shore-welsh-fighters-love-hate-return-in-rio-de-janeiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/jack-shore-welsh-fighters-love-hate-return-in-rio-de-janeiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Shore: Welsh fighter’s love-hate return in Rio de Janeiro"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Jack Shore knows that life is sometimes about contrasts.<\/b><\/p>\n

Normally, home is the gym on an industrial estate a few miles outside the small town of Abertillery in south-east Wales.<\/p>\n

Yet the MMA featherweight considers his answers from his hotel room just a few yards from one of Rio de Janeiro\u2019s beaches.<\/p>\n

This self-confessed introvert knows he is fast approaching a moment he struggles to explain as he prepares for his UFC return, 14 months since his last fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat feeling of walking in there and hearing the gate lock, you can\u2019t explain it until you\u2019ve done it yourself,\u201d Shore says of the MMA experience. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the best and the worst feeling in the world all at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shore is speaking before his bout with Brazilian fighter Joanderson Brito, scheduled for Saturday at UFC 301 in Rio, his comeback fight following hand surgery.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old is also reflecting on comments made by British heavyweight Simon Austin that, despite his career path, the Oktagon fighter hates fighting.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Shore has MMA in the blood, or certainly in the family, with UFC welterweight prospect Oban Elliott and current PFL featherweight Brett Johns among those who train at his father and coach Richard\u2019s gym in the Gwent valleys.<\/p>\n

But he admits people might find it hard to square the circle with what he does as a career and how he shies away from the spotlight out of the cage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think [former UFC headliner] Nick Diaz uses the quote that he hates it so much he\u2019s actually learned to love it, and I suppose I can relate to that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a natural fighter in that I\u2019m not a naturally aggressive guy who came up fighting on the streets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve probably disliked confrontation that much that I\u2019ve had to teach myself to love it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the training, the lifestyle, the samurai and warrior code of it all, but I can\u2019t sit here and say I look forward to a fistfight in front of 20,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when it comes to it, I can flip a switch and I\u2019m not the same person as sat here now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shore says there will be nerves and anxiety when that gate clicks, and that loved and hated feeling comes over him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fight or flight and there\u2019s a locked door so I know it\u2019s time to dig my feet in and fight,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou see so many people crumble in that moment \u2013 but that\u2019s not in me. I might lose because the better man won, but not because of fear.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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