Bowkes Talking Bouts (w/ Dylan Bowker): Episode 24 - Jason Jackson
Jason Jackson takes on Neiman Gracie at Bellator 255 on Friday, April 2nd. Jackson came on BTB to cover several subjects ahead of this bout between top Bellator MMA welterweights.
-Getting in quality work at Sanford MMA with numerous elite-level fighters
-The life benefits of being outdoors in Florida getting in beach and hill work
-Vicent Luque, Gilbert Burns, and Rory MacDonald training work
-Getting the localized insights from MacDonald who handed Neiman Gracie his sole loss
-Respecting Gracie as a technician on the ground and how a win here puts him at #1
-The controversial nature of his Ed Ruth fight and not believing he lost that fight
-Defeating Dhiego Lima for the Titan FC welterweight championship and setting his sights on finishing Dhiego's brother, Douglas Lima for the Bellator welterweight championship
-His goal this year of capturing the Bellator 170 lb belt and bringing Bellator to Jamaica
-The backstory to his nickname The Ass-Kicking Machine and how his love for WWE inspired it
-Being from Jamaica and the pandemic impeding his ability to visit home
-Getting in quality work at Sanford MMA with numerous elite-level fighters
-The life benefits of being outdoors in Florida getting in beach and hill work
-Vicent Luque, Gilbert Burns, and Rory MacDonald training work
-Getting the localized insights from MacDonald who handed Neiman Gracie his sole loss
-Respecting Gracie as a technician on the ground and how a win here puts him at #1
-The controversial nature of his Ed Ruth fight and not believing he lost that fight
-Defeating Dhiego Lima for the Titan FC welterweight championship and setting his sights on finishing Dhiego's brother, Douglas Lima for the Bellator welterweight championship
-His goal this year of capturing the Bellator 170 lb belt and bringing Bellator to Jamaica
-The backstory to his nickname The Ass-Kicking Machine and how his love for WWE inspired it
-Being from Jamaica and the pandemic impeding his ability to visit home