The Fighting Irish: Neil Seery
As part of our MMA coverage JOE will be taking a look at some of the big names in Irish MMA – kicking off with a fighter profile of Dubliner Neil Seery.
Name: Neil Seery
Club: Team Ryano, Baldoyle, Dublin
Fighting Weight: Bantamweight
Fighters are often judged on their won-lost records and while for the most part that’s OK, sometimes the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Look at BJ Penn’s record – a lightweight with 15 wins and seven losses. What the numbers won’t tell you is he lost once to a heavyweight and to welterweights three times. He also won at middleweight twice.
Likewise, if you judged 31-year-old Irish MMA fighter Neil Seery solely on his 7-7 record it would be equally unfair. The numbers won’t tell you he is one of Ireland’s most experienced and successful MMA fighters on the domestic and international circuit……………………………
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