Issue 096
December 2012
“When you wake up in the morning and your body’s aching from head to toe and you can’t be bothered going to the gym because you’re so sore, but then you click on the internet and the guy’s talking s**t, I’m out the door.”
Trash talk seemingly has the opposite of the intended result with UFC middleweight contender Michael Bisping
“I don’t think the (UFC) Hall of Fame has any credibility unless I’m in it. I was the first champion ever and set two world records and I’ve been pioneering for this sport since before there was weight classes and gloves.”
Frank Shamrock makes a case for joining his brother, Ken, amongst the UFC’s immortals
“When he sees a fighter, he adapts. He is very fast and very explosive on the ground. He has the buttocks of a gorilla and the thighs of a sprinter. So he is very explosive. He is very strong and is a boy who works very, very hard.”
Jean-Claude Van Damme utters perhaps the greatest combination of words ever on the topic of UFC welterweight champ Georges St Pierre
“They’re trying to escape by pulling out and stacking, whereas she’s got her feet crossed, and so it allows her knees to open up a bit. If it were me, I think I would try to sit my head back through and work my way into guard. Easier said than done – it’s just a theory.”
Has former female number-one Tara LaRosa cracked Strikeforce women’s bantamweight queen Ronda Rousey’s thus-far-unbeatable armbar?
“[Jon Jones] is still in the phase where he’s playing during the fight, really, but he doesn’t have the responsibility of a champion. He fights with delight, jokingly, striking like I did back in 1930, when I started.”
UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva says facetiously. We think…
“Come in and sit in my office and bitch, ‘I want more sponsors.’ Really? You’ve got a mullet down to the middle of your back. You got a Santa Claus beard that comes down to here. And what pops out from under the beard is this massive roll. What company wants to throw their logo on that?”
UFC president Dana White and heavyweight employee Roy Nelson do not see eye to eye
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