Diet and Fitness expert Mike Dolce not ruling out a return to Mixed Martial Arts
World renowned for his dieting and fitness expertise with elite fighters from all over the world requesting his services left right and center, Mike Dolce has become a name synonymous with the highest levels of competition.
With an MMA record of 5-10 Dolce has no delusions of grandeur and knows what he has to offer competitively but admitted in a recent interview with MMAJunkie.com that he still seems to have a competitive fighter burnign inside of him:
“I’m still an athlete, I still like to fight. I never retired, so I’m not saying a comeback, but I’m just a guy who likes to go in there and challenge myself. I don’t think it’s a big deal. I’m not trying to be the UFC champion. I’m just going out there and having some fun.”
As an extremely successful diet and fitness coach, Dolce has been working consistenly with top level fighters and many champions/legends of the sport. It makes sense then why he’d be against the concept of giving up on fighting entirely. When you’re working side-by-side along greatness, it will in turn inspire you to also strive for, reach and achieve greatness:
“It’s good, as I enter this next phase of my life, to challenge myself and stay in shape. I have to practice what I preach.”
Looking back on his career, Dolce admits that a lack of focus and the ability to take his own advice is the most likely cause for many of the losses he’s suffered. But he admits now that he’s learned through experience what it takes and would do things differently if given the opportunity:
“I felt like I lost fights that I should have won, just because of lifestyle, circumstances, and even in my head I was focused on other things instead of fighting. As a coach, I’d tell my athletes to do the exact opposite.”
“Now I wouldn’t be going in there with broken ribs, like I did against Lyman Good on four weeks’ notice because, well, I had to pay the bills. I’d be going in against an equally skilled, equally experienced athlete, with no worry about my family not eating if I didn’t get the win bonus.”
With the clock ticking, the former Welterweight fighter just might have another couple bouts in him, although doubtful he would ever compete at the UFC level, it would be nice to see him live out his Dream before moving on with his life and continuing his outstanding work doing what he does best. Coach.
