HUMAN SACRIFICE, DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER…MASS HYSTERIA!
“After my fight, I was excited, and so I did something rude that I should apologize for. But that showed just how excited I was over that fight.” – Dream lightweight champ Shinya Aoki, apologizing for flipping Mizuto Hirota the bird at Dynamite!! 2009: The Power of Courage. What, did crying go out of style? (Sherdog)
“When I had his arm behind his back, I could feel it popping. I thought, ‘Well, this guy’s pride just won’t let him tap, will it?’ So without hesitation, I broke it. I heard it break, and I thought, ‘Ah, there, I just broke it.'” – Aoki. Give him hell for the hand gesture with negative connotations (and, frankly, I don’t care), but if Hirota’s not going to tap, I say break the damn arm right off and beat him with it.
“I was stopped afterward, but even if I hadn’t been, continuing to break it more would have been fine by me.” – Aoki. Frank Mir just blushed with delight.
“When Sasahara tells me to go and do something, I do it, and that’s how I live my life. If Sasahara tells me to go to Strikeforce and take them out or ‘Go and kill that guy,’ I’m going to do it. Even if he tells me to go take out Tanigawa, I’d do that too.” – Aoki. Hopefully Sasahara tells him to “take out” B.J. Penn. It’ll be back to post-fight tears for Tobikan Judan! (Sherdog)
FIRE AND BRIMSTONE COMING DOWN FROM THE SKIES! RIVERS AND SEAS BOILING!
“It’s not very honorable to stand over a guy after you just knocked him out and shoot him in the head with a pretend gun. That’s just not cool.” – Paul Daley. Eh, it’s kind of cool. (MMAFighting.com)
“Then to wind his coach up a little bit by laughing, it’s not a cool thing to do but you know when you’re full of adrenaline you do stupid things.” – Daley. The first wave felt like a combination of mescaline and methedrine…
I DON’T HAVE TO TAKE THIS ABUSE FROM YOU, I’VE GOT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE DYING TO ABUSE ME
“Like I give a f— what Jake Rossen thinks. What has this guy ever done to move the sport of MMA forward– okay?” – UFC President Dana White, mildly bothered by some things. (Watch Kalib Run)
“So, instead of, wait, instead of, instead of promoting the fight this weekend– instead of promoting the fight this weekend, this guy is f—— arguing with me about how big MMA is going to be in the next ten years and why it wont be as big as I say it is. Are you mother fuckers into Mixed Martial Arts!?” – White. Yeah, why can’t you guys all be real MMA fans like Kevin Iole and Franklin McNeil!
“You know there’s a fight this Saturday, right? There’s not, there’s not one stitch of f—— anything covering the fight. Uh– who will be the next big fighters in the next ten years, uh– they got some big dude with a big f—— afro, uh– wrestling, you know?” – White
“So basically, what he just tells me is Jake Rossen, what he likes to do is, he likes to write bullshit stories smashing MMA and MMA writers so you the fans will go on there and talk about him for a long time. Typical f—— bullshit reporter. Jake Rossen, go f— yourself!” – White, countering Rossen’s strategy of writing stories to get people talking about Jake Rossen by putting out videos of himself to get people talking about Dana White. Brilliant!
THAT’S THE BEDROOM, BUT NOTHING EVER HAPPENED IN THERE
“Went out with this boxercise instructor a few times. She was super needy and then gained a bunch of weight. So, I dumped her. Now, she won’t leave me alone. Creepy.” – Former Pride middle- and welterweight champ Dan Henderson, showing more personality than he did during twelve weeks on the Ultimate Fighter. (ClinchGear.com)
WE CAME, WE SAW, WE KICKED ITS ASS
“It’s not my first fight. I’m not going to go because someone says come at me, come at me.” – Former UFC light heavyweight champ Rashad Evans, about Thiago Silva‘s attempt to bait him in round three of their fight at UFC 108. (Cage Writer)
“They wanted me to fight a smart fight and systematically break him down. Don’t get into those battles where it’s Russian roulette and whoever lands the first punch is going to win.” – Evans. Andrei Arlovski wasn’t available for Russian roulette training?
“I’ll give up a good knockout loss because there’s been so many people probably sitting on the coach saying ‘I just hope he gets knocked out, when he do that!’ And finally it happened.” – Evans, after being asked if he learned anything from trash talking in the cage. Thiago Silva came close to stopping Evans in round three after a thunderous combination wobbled the former champ. Evans survived after Silva was unable to apply enough pressure to force the referee to step in. (Cage Writer)
WHITE NOISE
“You’re not going to see ‘Rampage’ on the prelims and [expletive]. There will be none of that.” – UFC President Dana White, on his issues with former 205 champ Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. (MMA Junkie)
“What, fighters decide what fighters are going to do? That’s what the commission is there for. They drug test, they blood test, they do all those other things. For another fighter to be calling out another fighter for some type of blood work is f—— crazy.” – White, on the shenanigans going on in the Mayweather-Pacquiao negotiations. White’s point is fairly absurd as Nevada only requires blood tests for blood-borne diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis B and C, not for illicit drug use. Fighters are only required to take urine tests for performance enhancing substances, which is not nearly as thorough as a blood test. Mayweather’s intentions may not be purely set on an level playing field, but for all the bitching and moaning about PED’s in sports, should he really be put up on the cross for wanting stringent testing? (Sherdog)
“This is so bad, Joe Silva blew out his MCL. It’s so bad the matchmaker is down.” – White, making light of UFC 108’s injury bug. If I remember correctly, Joe Silva appeared to be walking around without trouble at the fights. (MMA Mania)
“It’s usually the ones that they’re bitching about that end up being some of the best.” – White, on the lack of fan anticipation for UFC 108. (Boston Herald)
PARTING SHOTS
“I’m going to tell you the truth, right now I don’t have the level that I need to do it. If I go right now to do it, I’m going to lose.” – UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre, debating whether or not to attempt to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in wrestling. (Canadian Press)
“So March, K-1 and then May-June, Fedor. That’s the plan.” – Alistair Overeem. In October, he plans to go through with the surgery that will complete his transformation into a horse. (MMAFighting.com)
“Like Tiger Woods, he made a mistake but he’s a really famous person and everybody looks at them.” – Gilbert Yvel, on his dirty behavior earlier in his career. (Canadian Press)
“I want to prove to all the 47-year-olds that if you get out of work you can do anything. To all the housewives and the husbands sitting on the couch saying they can’t do anything, I want to prove that they can — they just gotta get up and do it.” – Herschel Walker (or one of his personalities), on making his MMA debut at 47. Housewives and husbands can do anything they want – if they have the natural genetics and born drive of a professional athlete! (Sherdog)
“I don’t care. They can fine me. I’m going to be doing something after every fight just for them. They created a monster by fining me.” – “King” Mo Lawal, on the California State Athletic Commission’s decision to fine him for dumping a Rock Star energy drink all over himself. Chad Ochocinco would be proud. (MMA Weekly)