The famed fight trainer Greg Jackson used to say that he had a steady pre-fight routine with Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone, one of his star pupils.
The way it would work is, they’d get into the locker room on fight night and Cerrone would all at once realize what a stupid thing it was to go out and fight another man in a cage for other people’s entertainment. How awful. How insane. He didn’t know why he’d ever thought this was a good idea, but he was done with it now. He’d do this last one only because he’d already agreed to it and there were a bunch of people out in that arena waiting to see him, but after this?