Issue 084
January 2012
“I want specific fights right now. I’ve had some verbal offers but haven’t had the opportunity to bring some of these matches to life. Two particular matches I’m still interested are ones with Mark Coleman and Ken Shamrock. Realistically, I think that 2012 will be my final year as an MMA competitor. So whatever gets done gets done; whatever doesn’t, I’ll have to learn to live with I guess.”
Dan Severn, what a man. Nearly two decades into his 125-fight career and the former UFC superfight champion is still settling scores
“Everybody kept asking me, ‘Why are you so emotional?’ It took me a long time to get in the UFC... I’ve said it a hundred times, but they have these guys that are 7-0 or 9-0. They come in the UFC and they make an impact, but then they disappear and you never hear about them. I never wanted to be one of those guys. I want to be in the UFC for the long haul. I want to retire under the UFC banner.”
Former WEC standout, turned UFC featherweight Bart Palaszewski describes why his first UFC win had him crying like a baby
“You’re going to see, and mark my words – I’m going to say it now, Spike TV is behind Bellator now – watch how good Hector Lombard becomes. Watch how good I become. Watch how good Zach Makovsky becomes overnight as soon they start promoting us. Look how excellent of fighters we become. The reality is I’m not any better today than I am tomorrow. It’s just more people will know.”
Eddie Alvarez, Bellator lightweight champion, relays a pensive MMA paradox reinforced by mainstream mass media
“If I end up back in the UFC and that’s where I finish my career, then that’s going to be a great ending to the Marcus Davis story or whatever. But if I don’t, that’s going to be OK too because I’ll still be doing what I love to do. When that time comes, and if I hang it up with Warrior-1 down the road or wherever it is down the road, the UFC, I’m still going to live happily ever after with my wife and kids. That’s just the way I look at it.”
For MMA veteran Marcus Davis there is life outside of the UFC
“I think [Steven Seagal] is a freaking fraud, man… I remember watching Lyoto Machida fighting Randy Couture and he knocks Randy Couture out with a front kick and he goes, ‘I’d like to thank Steven Seagal and my dad.’ I was like, if I was Lyoto’s dad, I’d freaking slap him. ‘What the heck, dude. I taught you karate since you were a little freaking kid. I raised you, I fed you, I gave you clothes on your back and you thank this guy before me? I should disown you!’”
UFC featherweight Nam Phan, not looking forward to the day his future child shuns his love for the lure and glamor of former Hollywood action stars
“I had basically gone from this guy who had everything going for him to a college dropout who was applying for jobs as a janitor. I kind of felt like a loser. I had been a state champion wrestler, and here I am working as a bouncer. It was now or never. That’s just the way I look at it.”
Jon Jones inadvertently hurts the feelings of janitors and caretakers the world over while speaking to Rolling Stone
“Jon Jones doesn’t scare me. I think he’s slower than me, even being fast and observing his fights, I believe I have enough speed to get inside and out of his range. He does things slowly that you’d expect from him, but the problem is what you don’t.”
It doesn’t sound like former Pride FC standout Ricardo Arona, who’s fought three times in the last four years, has thought through this call-out of the UFC light heavyweight king
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