We begin this week not with fight recovery or celebration, but instead with Maurice Greene sitting by himself, self-reflecting with a cigarette. Comfortable that smoking will not detrimentally affect his performance, similar in nature to kickboxer and Bellator MMA fighter Joe Schilling’s view of smoking, he trains harder to overcome the deficit that smoking might cause. Teammate and friend Justin Frazier comes to check on him, and Greene tearfully admits that this competition is much more difficult than he expected it would be.
His coach, Kelvin Gastelum, and other assistant coaches sit down with Greene to discuss his problems, and to help him push through it and also as a form of punishment they assign him several strenuous exercises.