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“I don’t exactly know what a lucky punch is. You’re out there fighting. You’re throwing punches, trying to hit somebody and you hit them. I don’t know how that’s lucky. It’s kind of expected [the hesitance of people accepting him as champion], when somebody is as big of an underdog as I was, [...]
“You know I don’t know what he [Frank Mir] thought… he’s still trying to pull his foot out of his mouth and when you say something like that and your wife has to go out and apologize for you, you know you pissed somebody off. I think his wife made the apology before he did [...]
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“It won’t affect me at all. I really do not pay a lot of attention to smack talk. Whatever my opponent needs to do to get themselves ready to fight me is fine. At the end of the night the better fighter (that evening) should have his hand raised and really that is all I [...]
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Ask Ben Rothwell what went wrong in his UFC debut against Cain Velasquez last October, and he almost chuckles as he answers. “Besides everything?” he asks, not expecting an answer back because he already knows what it is. And though it really doesn’t matter what happened during his second round [...]
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“It’s going to be a tough fight. Minotauro is one of the best. He is always hard and you can never underestimate him. Even while he is losing, always finds a way to invert the situation and finish the bout. I have too much respect for him. I watched The Ultimate Fighter in [...]
WEC general manager Reed Harris knows about stress.
Harris can’t make a public appearance without answering a question about a potential merger with the UFC (it’s not happening), an update on the DirecTV situation (he thinks Versus will be back on very soon) or why the WEC thinks it should be on pay per view (increased [...]
UFC welterweight Amir Sadollah (2-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) is used to being the underdog.
In fact, even as Sadollah entered his UFC 106 contest with Phil Baroni, “The Ultimate Fighter 7″ winner was being doubted by many MMA observers.
After 15 minutes of one-sided action, Sadollah had silenced many of those critics, but the 29-year-old recently told [...]
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Quoteworthy:
“I actually called Joe Silva today … I called and I asked him for Renzo (Gracie) because he’s coming and he needs a warm-up fight, so I was like I feel like I’d be a good warm-up fight. I’ve met Renzo a few times and I think he’s one of the greatest guys in [...]
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Quoteworthy:
“I get doubted all the time. Regardless of what I do or who I beat, people always underestimate me. They’ve never given me the respect I deserve. Fighting GSP, if I can give him a good beating, people might start to change their mind.Josh Koscheck’s at the back of a long line [...]
That’s what Ben Rothwell told CagePotato.com, anyway:
” … I don’t put Cain at Andrei’s level. With Andrei, I tried to say it wasn’t that big a fight and there wasn’t pressure, but my body knew how big it was. It was kind of like when GSP fought Matt Hughes and he gave him too much [...]