he has more than that and you probably have never trained. this is like being able to beat your coach after 5 years of high level professional training( not impressive). not hobby training once a day. a life style shift and access to everything a champion has from day 1. this should not surprise anyone. I'm sure there are many sherdog posters who could have tapped or beat their old instructor by the 4th year in. people age. i dont care how good you are. if you have an athlete training with the privileges jake has for that long hes dangerous to anyone because technique works especially when you have the conditioning to back it. do i think jake is anderson silva level striker in boxing or mma? no not even close. never will ever come close to what anderson has done but i certainly think a young athlete whos been training like a champ for 5 years has a good shot of ko'ing current day anderson who is old and past his prime this is why fighters need to earn their shots in these sports but jake doesn't play the sport he plays his game and looks like a fool doing it. . anderson has only shined in boxing fighting past prime old guys. he lost out of the ufc. i just think his odds to do well here are low. jake picks these fights for a reason. IMO hes a part of the process for vitor vs rahman too. these wanna be boxers who use celebrity status to push their fights are basically picking off old dudes from another sport and pretending like its something to gloat abbout. it would be so sweet if anderson and vitor get brutal kos but i think to expect that given jakes approach to picking fights i think it would be wrong.
a serious bjj student who intends to compete a lot can tap his instructor within 3-5 years.
a serious boxer who has natural ko power can easily knock out a smaller or older instructor or former pro easy within 1-3 years
technique works. it takes a mindset and and athlete to take technique and properly apply it in a live fight. but to me jake comes from so much privilege here for me its hard to give him credit until he fights a guy we can't make the same exact excuses about. either old. to small. or past prime. then it will be either someone coming off a knock out or injury. jake plays the fight game dirty. he has people calling the camps and spying to find out every detail events are leaned in his favor from the get go. i just dont see giving him credit currently. i have seen hobbyist who deserve more credit for their accomplishments in the sport./
