Jean Matsumoto | Seeking That Addictive Feeling Again

Seeing what happens after a fighter suffers the first loss of their professional career is a fascinating point of focus and can often tell you a great deal about that athlete and what their future may hold.

When it happens, how it happens, and who it happened against can all be factors that impact what that next step looks like, and whether that initial setback becomes an exit ramp, the start of a slide, or simply a blip on the radar that ultimately turns into nothing more than the answer to a trivia question that only diehard fans will remember several years down the road.

Jean Matsumoto was bounced from the ranks of the unbeaten this past February, stuck on the sour side of a split decision…