Comments from an article leading up to HW MMA debut. Dude is in better shape than any of us cold imagine! Bet he could still line up and rush for over a hundred!
Trainer Javier Mendez, whose American Kickboxing Academy is renowned for producing MMA champions, acknowledged he was initially skeptical about the idea of training Walker.
\"I thought someone like him shouldn't be fighting at this stage,\" Mendez said Tuesday. \"But once I saw him, I was amazed. His explosiveness, his cardio, his willingness to learn I don't think anybody could have done it other than him.\"
Nagy, 26, sports a 1-1 record in MMA, both coming at Rage in the Cage events in Arizona.
Allan Fields, chief physician for the Florida Boxing Commission that also oversees MMA sanctioning, said Walker passed the \"most strenuous tests that possibly you can impose on an athlete.\"
A stress test on Walker's heart given by a \"major cardiac institution,\" Fields said, produced the highest score of anyone ever tested by facility.
\"He's in as fine a shape as Muhammad Ali or any of these people we've had the care of,\" said Fields, a former U.S. Olympic team physician. \"This guy is 47 going on 22, as far as his physical fitness goes.\"
