Issue 039

July 2008

“No fighter can guarantee winning a fight but you can go into a bout in shape. If you can’t go the distance then you’re not preparing well enough and you’re not taking your job seriously. We work for the UFC and it’s our job to get off our arses and train and be in shape. That’s what we get paid for and if we don’t do that then we’re not doing our job.”

Michael Bisping

“Anyone can watch a UFC and pick out a guy who does well and say ‘man I should manage that guy.’ Well, that’s nice but what about the guy who’s been managing and handling that guy for the four years before he got there? In my business, we call those agents ‘poachers’”.

Monte Cox hits out as his rivals

“I am a fighter, yes. It is my job, and it is a job I love. But before I’m a fighter, I am a fan. I love this sport.”

Wanderlei Silva

“I love boxing for what it is, but you see so many different things, and a higher pace, in UFC fights. You can see punching, wrestling, submissions. If boxing is like shooting a 9-millimeter, imagine adding in a bazooka and machine gun. With the more weapons we have, the interest will come around.”  

Roger Huerta

“I am living my dream of living by the ocean.”

Diego Sanchez, who moved from New Mexico to San Diego

“We would test ‘The List’. We were told we could have almost anything we wanted, we just had to put it on ‘The List’ and they would go get it. We started off with silly stuff like certain types of ice cream and it quickly morphed into specific cuts of meat and things like that.”

TUF 7 contestant CB Dolloway, on how the contestants beat boredom on The Ultimate Fighter