Issue 071
January 2011
“People need to understand that I don’t make a lot of money. I don’t have any money; I spent it all on food.”
Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz shows signs of needing an accountant
“Someone’s child just told me I should let me bangs grow and Bieber-ize myself. That could be a good look.”
Even promising UFC light heavyweights experience ‘Bieber fever’ in their daily lives. Phil Davis and his Twitter feed are no different
“Most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now, but you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.”
Georges St Pierre: UFC welterweight belt in one hand, a copy of Wired in the other
“What Cain did is what great fighters do: they learn from what they can study. How would my fight have turned out if I had let Brock stand and knocked him down again and again? It really doesn’t matter what happened last night or in July; the only thing that matters is what is to be.”
Shane Carwin turns soothsayer after Brock Lesnar’s UFC 121 loss to Cain Velasquez
“She’s always irritated me – that’s the truth of it. I’m sure I irritate her too. I think we’d make a great fight and I’d be willing to come down in weight to fight her if ever the opportunity presented itself. If Strikeforce brings in a 125lb division I’d be more than happy to drop the weight and fight Tara.”
Miesha Tate picks a fight with former BodogFight women’s bantamweight champ Tara LaRosa
“Nick Diaz asked me if I was in Surf Ninjas the movie. Funny thing is I was. I doubled for Leslie Nielsen!”
Strikeforce promoter Scott Coker hints at a hidden history of stunt work in quirky martial arts films that includes 1989’s Dragon Fight starring Jet Li
“As a person and as a human being, I don’t want to see him ever fight in the UFC again. But as a fighter and someone who has heard the stuff that he’s talked about me, and the things that were talked about me during The Ultimate Fighter, I would love to get a chance to kick his ass.”
Tito Ortiz shows some curious double standards in relation to his long-time nemesis Chuck Liddell
“I’ve had a small problem with my cardio before in some fights, so we did some tests after the last fights and determined that it was like I was fighting another round before I even got in the cage.”
UFC joker Tom Lawlor suggests he might be switching to more conservative entrances in future. The MMA community mourns
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