Issue 069
December 2010
“On my phone I have a picture of me all beat up from my last fight. My girlfriend asks me, ‘Why is that on there?’ and I say, ‘It’s motivation.’”
TUF joker Tom Lawlor gets serious – for once
“Sex is very important for an athlete. Not only sex with a partner, but you can have sex with yourself. But sex, in itself, is very healthy. It’s proven with a doctor, in medical [tests]. It’s good. The more sex you have, the more you’re going to keep your testosterone level high.”
Life gets tough for Georges St Pierre
“He was 420lb! I was standing there in the middle of the ring watching him waddle through the cage door and thought, ‘Goddamn. Me and my get-rich-quick schemes. Now I’ve done it.’”
Don Frye reminisces about his 1996 UFC and MMA debut against the plump Thomas Ramirez
“His head is on the block and next on the list. I walk around a solid 193 or so; I would be happy to fight him at 205 if he would just find the guts to accept the fight. He never will but a man can hope. Don’t insult a man’s friends the way he insulted Mark Coleman and expect to not get smacked around for it.”
Josh Koscheck picks a fight with Tito Ortiz
“[Visibility] matters big time, because when I dislocate and tear somebody’s head completely off their shoulders and spew blood all over the ring, and then drink it, I want the whole world to see it.”
Josh Barnett fantasizes about the national stage his new Strikeforce contract will bring
“I grew up around wild wolves; they run around the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. The wolf isn’t only intelligent, but they say it’s so fierce that when it bites your arm, even if you kill it, the jaw doesn’t open. I like the ferocity of the wolf.”
Chinese WEC debutant ‘The Mongolian Wolf’ Tie Quan Zhang channels his inner animal
“I’m a huge fan of the UFC, but I think that it hasn’t been very interesting lately. There are good fighters of course but not so many interesting fights. They punch a little bit, then get a takedown and every round is just a repetition of that. Japanese MMA is totally different. We go for knockouts and submissions from the beginning and going for the decision isn’t an option.”
Shinya Aoki, who won his last fight via decision by keeping Marcus Aurelio on the ground and dusting him with strikes
“I am just blown away with who gets caught. What happened to good food, water and some supplements? That’s what I did and I never had a problem with people being stronger or in better shape.”
Dutch MMA legend Bas Rutten responds to the Chael Sonnen steroid controversy
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