(Sports News) Arjan Singh Bhullar, the reigning ONE Heavyweight World Champion, opens up about his training regimen and the importance of mindset in the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). In an exclusive interview with Star Sports, Bhullar shares his approach to becoming a champion, emphasizing the significance of seeking out the best coaches and training in the right environment. 

Drawing from his background in wrestling, he understands the value of discipline, goal-setting, proper nutrition, and sleep. Bhullar explains how MMA evolved from the idea of pitting fighters from different martial arts against each other, leading to the birth of Mixed Martial Arts. He highlights the necessity for fighters to train in various disciplines, broadening their skill sets to excel in this multifaceted sport. As Arjan puts it, the modern-day champion is the one who masters a little bit of everything.

Tune in to witness the intense battle between Arjan Bhullar and Anatoly Malykhin, where the champion defends his title in a Heavyweight World Title Unification Match, LIVE & Exclusive on 23rd June at 7.30 PM IST only on the Star Sports Network and Disney+ Hotstar.

Speaking exclusively to Star Sports, ONE Heavyweight World Champion Arjan Singh Bhullar spoke on his training regimen and workout routine, and how important it is to have a proper mindset in MMA, Arjan said “I look for the best coaches, the best gym, and I put myself in an environment where I can push myself to the highest level. 

This is what it takes, and these people are already there and they will get me there. So, I started with that, and then you know, step by step, every fight I learnt more, in training I learnt a little more. I started with defence, you know you don’t want to get hurt, so first is defence, then build up the offence and all the techniques therein.”

Arjan added “I know how to train, how to train hard, set goals, how to achieve them, how to be a professional, how to sleep on time, eat right, diet, how to win, how to lose, I already have all that from wrestling. So now I needed the techniques to get good at this sport.”

Speaking exclusively to Star Sports, ONE Heavyweight World Champion Arjan Singh Bhullar also spoke on the origins of the sport and how he had to train in different martial arts to become champion, he said “How this sport started, why they call it Mixed Martial Arts is you have Wrestling, that’s one Mixed Martial Art, you have Boxing, that’s another Martial Art, Jiu Jujutsu, Kick-boxing, they are all individual arts. 

So how this sport started was someone had the idea that if you take a wrestler and say a boxer, and you make them fight, I wonder who’d win in a fight? Then it was okay, let’s take a boxer and a kick-boxer, let’s see who would win in a fight. So that’s how the sport started, and we’re going to pay them and figure out who the baddest man is. 

Eventually, the fighters started training in other martial arts as well, not just their own. So the wrestlers started boxing and kickboxing because they knew that ‘Hey, I need to know as much as I can to win this fight against this individual.’ So that’s when it became rather than just one martial art, Mixed Martial Arts, and everybody started training in everything and that’s where we are at now in the modern day where you have to do a little bit of everything and whoever is the best at everything is a World Champion.”

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