Regardless of how dominant someone can be in an athletic sense, unless they are mentally as sharp as they are physically going into a competition, all the training and natural talent in the world might not account for anything. For former Bellator featherweight champion Pat Curran , the night of Nov. 2 of last year was one of those times when his mental preparedness, or lack thereof, failed him. As he recently told MMAWeekly.com, heading into his Bellator 145-pound title defense against Daniel Straus , his mental focus wasn’t there
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