A humongous, fascinating profile piece from The Atlantic:
He puts his face up close to mine. His eyes are tightly focused, and the wheels inside his head are spinning too fast. “Just watch my next fight and you’ll be drooling,” he says. “Watch it! The mind is the strongest thing in your body,” he adds, reaching out to me with both hands from across the table. “There’s a reason why you only use 10percent of your brain. You got to learn how to use the rest of your brain, homey. Your mind is real strong. Strongest thing I got.”
The piece is a look at Rampage’s title fight weekend against Forrest Griffin. Well worth reading if you have (a lot of) time.
UPDATE [from Luke Thomas]: The author of this piece also interviews Lorenzo Feritta, Arianny Celeste and BJ Penn. Note to Samuels: Penn did not jump four weight classes to defeat Matt Hughes. He simply jumped one.