Ryan Bader has been through this before. Earlier in his competitive life, the 30-year-old UFC light heavyweight was forced to ask himself what was going wrong in his athletic career, and following a knockout loss to Glover Teixeira in his most recent fight, he’s found the same answer. It lies in his wrestling career at Arizona State University, where he found success as a three-time PAC-10 champion and a two-time All-American. Those achievements didn’t contain the lesson he needed to resuscitate his fighting career, of course. That came in his senior year of school after he hit a wall as a junior
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UFC Fight Night 33′s Ryan Bader working to embrace fighting contradiction – MMA Junkie