Issue 072
February 2011
“It just gives me a bigger audience to show how much of a badass I am and what a cool haircut looks like.”
Miguel Torres talks about taking his fight skills and power mullet from the WEC to the UFC
“I’ve been begging for the fight. If the fight doesn’t happen it’s not my fault. It’s not Strikeforce’s fault, because they want it. So that leaves one person. Don’t be scared homie.”
Will Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller ever get his hands on Nick Diaz?
“I’m not going to cry about it. If I’ve failed to convince the UFC, Dana White and the fans that I’m overwhelmingly the number-one contender and that I absolutely should be fighting for the belt, then I take that as my own responsibility. It’s my own fault.”
Jon Fitch takes a laudably mature position on his inability to secure a UFC welterweight number-one contender spot
“We have all had to watch Brock Lesnar fart around. That guy is an embarrassment. Goddamn, you get to handpick his opponents for him for a while, then someone who is a halfway decent athlete comes along and hits him once and he pisses his pants and runs. If he wasn’t in a cage he would still be running.”
Don Frye fears not the retribution of Brock Lesnar
“I’m coming to acknowledge the mid-life crisis that a lot of guys go through where they get a Corvette and a hot blonde girlfriend with big boobs. I’ve just decided to do the WWE.”
The recently retired MMA veteran Shonie Carter on plans to take his garish Speedos and spinning back-fist to pro wrestling
“I actually dieted and tried to keep the weight off. I ate like a mouse and got to 210lb and felt weak. All I could think of was, ‘F**k, another 25lb? Are you kidding me?’ I mean, I have a pretty big frame. So I figured why not just eat like a horse and lift like a mule and weigh 230 and then just cut to 205?”
Stephan Bonnar re-lives his adventure of trying to drop to middleweight
“After the first round I sat down and I was just completely exhausted. I was like, ‘Oh [expletive] ten minutes to go.’ I knew at that point I was just going to have to dig deep and keep fighting. I knew it was too important not to lose my UFC debut.”
Jake Shields reflects on his first performance in the UFC Octagon
“We don’t want them to blow their brains out and go away. We need these guys to exist. Listen, whether they want to believe it or not, they’re the small show. They’re a feeder show. Whether they want to believe it, that’s what they are. We need them.”
Dana White talks about how he sees Strikeforce’s relationship with the UFC
