Issue 048

April 2009

“I’d love to see them do another show because I’d love to see them lose another five to six million of their t-shirt money.”

Dana White on Affliction

“It’s not my goal to be the best light heavyweight in the world. Something I’ve always wanted is to be a heavyweight. I plan over one year, maybe two years, to build to heavyweight. I think one of the reasons I will do well in heavyweight is if I can keep the speed, explosiveness and movement of a middleweight, it will make it hard for other heavyweights to fight against me.” Gegard Mousasi

“Chute Boxe is a great school. Soon we are going to present new names. We’re going to make great champions.” Rudimar Fedrigo

“MMA is a sport of evolution. If you’re not consistently evolving, you’re going to be left behind. You see it with some of the older fighters. When I go out there, I feel like an artist, like I’m going to create a masterpiece.” Rashad Evans

“I did pretty good in the first few minutes. But then I tried to do something flashy and paid for it. I have to sit down with myself and figure out why I didn’t listen to my trainers. All my hard work and training, I just threw it in the toilet.” Andrei Arlovski

“If Brock Lesnar is able to be a world-class mixed martial artist in his fifth fight, that means he’s the best mixed martial artist pound-for-pound that ever came into MMA. That’s a pretty steep statement there.” Frank Mir on his upcoming fight with Lesnar.