Fighters Only

Issue 077

July 2011

“I wish I was like Chael Sonnen or had the attitude like Dan Hardy and Paul Daley to call people out, but I just can’t do it.”

UFC lightweight and TUF winner Ross Pearson wants to be the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

“I feel like you instigate fights quite a bit… I mean maybe that’s your job but where I come from, you know, people like that get slapped.”

Nick Diaz lays down the law to World MMA Award-winning journalist Ariel Helwani.

“We’re way past [a proposed ‘Mayhem’ vs Nick Diaz fight]. Nick ducked. I don’t even care about fighting him anymore. He just showed who he was with this whole thing. I don’t even want to talk about it; it’s so ridiculous.”

Now-UFC middleweight ‘Mayhem’ Miller is done pursuing a scrap with Nick Diaz. The MMA world mourns the loss of a potential trash-talk supernova.

“I think it broadsided [Rashad Evans], because they both make an agreement and all of a sudden someone reneges. I would never fight Daniel [Cormier] definitely, and he would never fight me. But then all of a sudden if he went behind my back and said, ‘I’ll fight Mo’ on TV, and I don’t know – that’s a ho-move. And a ho-move deserves an ass whipping.”

Is former Strikeforce light heavyweight champ ‘King Mo’ Lawal picking a fight?

“I’m not going to go on the forums, The Underground, and give myself little aliases to try to make myself feel better bashing on other fighters... It’s sad that the fighters have managers, agents and all kinds of people jumping on these forums and doing that and doing this, that’s just not me.”

MMA fighter and former WWE star Bobby Lashley has seen the horrors of The Underground and wants no part of it.