Bellator MMA star Dalton Rosta is training with the most effective on this planet at American Top Team, while his rival Norbert Novenyi Jr is doing the identical with top stars at London Shoot Fighters.
But Rosta is unsure that Novenyi Jr is getting the most effective rounds possible, given his home’s propensity for housing influencer boxers amongst their top-level professionals. London Shoot is renowned as one among the UK’s best gyms, and is home to the likes of Michael ‘Venom’ Page and Darren Stewart.
Nevertheless, there are also various celebrity boxers who train out of the famed facility; most famously YouTuber-turned-boxer KSI. The Brit has been at London Shoot since his 2022 comeback, and has since been joined by Armz Korleone and HSTikkyTokky amongst others.
Dalton Rosta unimpressed by Norbert Novenyi Jr training with YouTube star KSI
Rosta is one among the toughest trainers on the Bellator roster, and made it his mission to face Novenyi Jr after searching through the potential fighters of their middleweight rankings. But he isn’t sure about a few of his training partners; most notably chart-topping rapper and Misfits Boxing boss KSI.
“I’m not here to speak s*** but that’s the difference between our gyms,” Rosta told Bloody Elbow in an exclusive chat. “He’s training with influencers and s*** and I saw he had an image with that Armz Korleone dude who’s a giant influencer.
“Quite a lot of the s*** over there looks like it’s just lots of clout and influencer s***. I’m training with killers each day. A few of these guys that train at gyms like which might be a giant fish in a small pond, then they travel to other gyms here and there to get good rounds in.
“Me? I’m in a dog fight each f***ing day. The last 4 or five sparring sessions these last two or three weeks I’ve been sparring with Johnny Eblen and we’ve been going to f***ing war each day, there’s not a simple round on this gym.
“If it’s not Johnny it’s Magomed Umalatov, an undefeated fighter in PFL. It’s Ikram Aliskerov who’s a top 15 fighter within the UFC and his only loss is to Khamzat Chimaev. Those are the fellows I’m sparring with all the time.”
Dalton Rosta made major push for Norbert Novenyi Jr fight after first loss
Heading into his last outing against Aaron Jeffery in August of last yr, Rosta was unbeaten and heading towards the highest of the middleweight division. But when the result didn’t go his way, he was keen to remain on that track, and wanted one among Khalid Murtazaliev or Norbert Novenyi Jr.
The Russian was injured, but they were in a position to deliver on a clash with the Brit, which takes place on Saturday night’s Bellator Dublin major card. “I hit up my manager and said I wanted one among those two guys,” he explained.
“They called me back the following day and principally said Murtazaliev was injured, but they might make the Norbert Novenyi Jr fight work. I got one among the 2 names I wanted… That last fight wasn’t my best showing.
“I’m not letting it effect me, I do know I had a little bit of an off night and it wasn’t my best performance. It sucks however it is what it’s. I’ve got a one on my record and it probably shouldn’t have been to him, I felt like I used to be the higher fighter, watched it back and felt I used to be the higher fighter.
“But a part of fighting is f***ing cardio and conditioning. For whatever reason I got drained within the fight. It f***ing happened and led to my downfall and at the top of the day I lost the fight and there will be lots of reasons for that.
“Going forward I’m obviously attempting to fix those holes and ensuring that that doesn’t occur again.”
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