Issue 094
November 2012
“I really miss fighting and I think about it every day.”
And we miss you, quasi-retired Pride FC badass Ricardo Arona
“Everything I set out to do [in MMA], I managed to pull off, and it has been an amazing journey for 15 years... Unless [Steven] Seagal wants to sign up.”
Whoa! What if Randy Couture actually did fight Steven Seagal? Please, fight gods...
“I’ve said this before, when you’ve had to look a mother in the eyes and tell her why you couldn’t bring her son home, it makes all of this that much easier. This is just a fist fight.”
UFC middleweight Brian Stann provides MMA with some much needed perspective
“I’m so mad that he would say anything like that to Gene [LeBell]. I don’t want to give anyone another quote like, ‘I would beat the crap out of Steven Seagal.’ But I bet I could.”
Strikeforce female Ronda Rousey: arm breaker and foe of action movie stars who call her mentor senile
“I know that sounds fun. ‘Yeah! throw Nick Diaz in there!’ If you really look at the thing, Nick Diaz just lost to [Carlos] Condit, at 170, so that gives him the opportunity to move up to ‘85 and fight the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world? In what universe does that make sense?”
UFC president Dana White squashes the fight world’s dreams of seeing welterweight bad boy Nick Diaz fight UFC 185lb champ Anderson Silva
“Concerning my retirement from the UFC, I said it was my last fight for the UFC and last fight on the present contract, but I did not say, ‘I won’t keep fighting.’ I never said that. I think the best thing to say is that I was born to fight.”
Says ex Pride and UFC heavyweight kickboxer Mirko ‘Cro Cop.’ We’re confused but pleased?
“I’m embarrassed if you bring it up when you’re right next to me. I’m no different from anybody, I just got lucky, I landed that kick. Many people say it was lucky, and it really was, but I knew what I was doing.”
The paradox that is Brazilian UFC heavyweight Gabriel Gonzaga talking about his shocking 2007 head kick knockout over head kick specialist Mirko ‘Cro Cop’
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