We already knew that Gilbert Burns was a tough guy, but the true extent of his fortitude seems to have revealed itself in a recent interview with MMAJunkie.
Before he took to the Octagon at UFC 264, tearing Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson apart, Gilbert Burns took a golf club right to the head.
Burns Reveals He Took A Golf Club to the Head Before UFC 264
“I got a cut on my head a week before the fight. My son was playing golf. He freaking threw the golf club on my head!
I just finished my strength and conditioning, and at my strength and conditioning place, IHP, they train a lot of golfers, so they have the golf clubs. They have things in there, and I already had plans with the family to go play golf at night.
My son never plays. I said, ‘Hey Pedro,’ my oldest, ‘Come here. I’m going to show you how to do it.’ I’m not a professional, but I know how to play a little bit, and then I showed him.
‘Here is the club. Look, how you hold it. He said, ‘I know, Daddy. I know. Look.’ I said, ‘OK,’ and I backed out. I backed away.
I was very far away from him, but he swang like a freaking baseball bat, and he turns, and that sh*t came on my head and pow! I was just like, ‘Man,’ and I was just praying, ‘Hopefully it doesn’t bleed. Hopefully, it doesn’t bleed.’ There was blood everywhere.”
Durinho shows no signs of sustaining such a freakish injury in the fight, a unanimous decision win reflecting his dominant performance. Burns actually needed staples in his head to close the cut, which led to him growing his hair out longer than usual to cover the wound.
Burns is enjoying something of a resurgence following his loss to Kamaru Usman earlier this year. Usman currently sits atop the welterweight division, crushing all comers, but Gilbert Burns wants another shot at the title. He knows he’ll have to work his way back up, and performances like the one against Thompson, even with staples in his head, are exactly how he’ll get there.
Usman is due to face Colby Covington later this year, but Burns may well take on whoever wins that fight. If he’s tough enough to fight with a hole in his head, Gilbert Burns may well wear the welterweight belt in the future.
As for his sons, “Durinho” may need to find them another outlet. “Both my sons, they’re crazy. They have a lot of energy.” Maybe they’ll try martial arts?
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