What makes a pro MMA career difficult?

What makes a pro MMA career difficult?

It needs a lot of dedication that's what I think for sure. You're going to get a lot of small injuries and the small injuries are the worst. For instance, a mat burn; if you roll on the mat and you have a mat burn on your knee or on your toe and it happens a lot. The skin gets rubbed off because of the fast movements you make on the mat. You're going to have to deal with that injury until your fight because everyday when you train you reopen that injury. Those little things are really annoying. Other things of course, knee problems because there's wrestling involved and you see many wrestlers also having knee problems because nonstop you're shooting in, you're shooting in. What happens is when you grab the back of somebody and your foot is on the ground and you turn; the traction between your foot and floor stays there so when you turn you might pop your knee. Those little injuries they keep coming and coming and when you get older those injuries become big injuries. Like in the beginning when I used to train, somebody would take me in a leg lock; I would hear my knee pop and then they say okay we got to stop. Three weeks later I could train again, I could fight again. Right now, that same injury would take me two years to recoup from.