Issue 087
April 2012
“I don’t back down from anyone. I don’t cower to anyone. I don’t fear the next person standing next to me. It doesn’t matter who it is, I’m going to come after you like a wild... squirrel.”
Pat Barry’s ‘beast mode’ isn’t as impressive as one might have expected from a fearsome UFC heavyweight striker
“I want to fight again. My wife tells me I’m going to retire, so Dana is the deciding vote... My wife’s a great lady but she’s not going to tell me when Matt Hughes retires.”
Welterweight great Matt Hughes peeks into the Octagon from his position under the thumb
“I’m beating people and it’s like people are saying you’re beating cans, which is not true. But the fans act that way; if you’re not in the UFC automatically you’re a can. That’s just how people see you. I want people to recognize when I beat people. I’m not beating cans.”
In case you missed it, former UFC and TUF light heavyweight and M-1 Global champ Vinny Magalhaes is not beating cans
“Gina [Carano] rocks. And yeah, she’s kinda like my opposite. She’s brunette with short hair with a nice rack that’s a good striker. I’m like a blond with long hair that’s a good grappler that has a nice ass. We were made for each other to hang out.”
Rising Strikeforce female Ronda Rousey has curious criteria for friendship
“Wolves tried to come eat my sheep, and then I have to save my sheep with a stick and my dogs… Double-legs don’t work on wolves; they’ll bite your hand, man.”
The fields of rural Iran are to UFC lightweight Kamal Shalorus what the mean streets of Stockton are to Nick Diaz
“You know, these guys want to talk about God. ‘Oh, I want to thank God. I want to thank God.’ Listen, I’m a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God cared one way or another about a borderline illegal fist-fight on Saturday night, I would be so greatly disappointed that it would make me rethink my entire belief system.”
Chael Sonnen, the man with perhaps the longest continuous FO appearance streak of any fighter
“I’m still a guy that’s gonna take down Nick Diaz, I’m still a guy that’s gonna push the pace on Nick Diaz, I’m still the guy that’s tough enough to take Nick Diaz’s little pitter-patter punches. Styles make fights. Nick Diaz has this grappling that’s on point and so do I. We get back in there again, I’m going to kick his ass again.”
UFC welterweight Diego Sanchez gets MMA die-hards hot under the collar
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