Saad Awad Turns Losses into Lessons for Bellator 219
Saad Awad has been in the fight game for a while and has been one of Bellator’s staple fighters since 2013. He last faced Benson Henderson at Bellator 208 and while the fight did not go his way, he always takes losses as lessons to bring into his next fight. Awad is one half of the main event against former title challenger Brandon Girtz and fans can believe he is coming prepared to headline Bellator 219 with lesson’s learned.
Both he and Girtz are coming off of losses from fighting at the championship level and this is a fight Awad said would have happened earlier had it not been for Girtz going in to replace an injured Brent Primus at Bellator 197. When asked about the loss to Henderson and others in his career, Awad told the Coast-2-Coast Combat Hour that he “learned a lot”; about himself in that loss and that, it will absolutely help him when he faces Girtz this Friday.
Awad said he learned a lot about ring awareness in particular and that should help him in this next fight. Awad has a total 10 losses on his record but the tenacity he brings into every new fight never changes, adding to his philosophy of turning losses into lessons, which is present in any competitive sport. As far as bad calls or poor judges go, that is not something Awad has time for.
“It’s like that saying. If you hold a piece of hot coal and you wait to throw it at someone, who get burned while they’re holding it? You burn yourself” –Saad Awad
Of Awad’s 23 wins, 10 come by way of knock out with another seven coming by way of submission. One thing Awad has always done is deliver an exciting fight with the aggression to go for a finish. Someone will return to the win column at Bellator 219.
