I HOPE JOE ROGAN ISN’T IN LINE TO COACH THE NEXT ULTIMATE FIGHTER
“If Joe Rogan wants to get on the air and call people names, that’s his business. I’m not going waste my time responding to that.” – Executive Director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission Keith Kizer. If you’ve been following TWIQ, you know that Kizer’s about to “waste his time responding to that.” (MMAFA)
“There’s only one way for me to bring the maximum attention to this issue; and that’s to voice my opinion on air during a live Television show where I know that millions of people are going to listen to it.” – Joe Rogan, who opined this weekend that the Quebec ring doctor should not have stopped the championship bout between Georges St. Pierre and Josh Koscheck for an eye that had been swollen shut because he felt Koscheck could still see out of it. After the fight ended, Rogan said Koscheck was fighting with one eye. Hm. (The Underground)
“They always say that ‘the UFC has nothing to do with judging.’ Well guess what, they’ve got a big fight coming up in Canada called Koscheck vs. Georges St. Pierre – the UFC and Marc Ratner are flying Tony Weeks up there as a judge.” – Kizer. Point.
“The NSAC for all it’s flaws is the most important ruling body in combat sports. To bring judges that aren’t appointed and approved by the NSAC would open up a whole new can of worms. The question would also come up as to who appoints those other judges?” – Rogan. Counterpoint.
“Obviously there are people who want to feel superior than others, trash others. Maybe they are full of some self-hate, some self-pity … maybe that’s Rogan’s piece as well.” – Kizer, and now it gets personal.
“Kizer is a politician, and one of the biggest issues with him is that he’s not willing to admit that he’s not done the best job possible with the best intentions of the sport and it’s [sic] participants in mind.” – Rogan
“I’ve been getting all of these e-mails saying ‘What’s wrong with you? Phan dominated every round!’ and they’re wrong. You can’t [sic] give Phan that round but you can’t say he dominated. I think MMAWeekly scored that round to Garcia. I think MMAJunkie scored the third round for Garcia. You can’t tell me he ‘dominated’ those rounds.” – Kizer. Yes, you can say that Phan dominated the third round.
“Please keep up the emails, and keep up the blog posts. The only way this thing is going to change is if the people in charge feel like they have to do something about it to keep their jobs intact.” – Rogan. If only forward-thinking Germans had the power of email and blogs during the Third Reich…
I’M GOING TO START KICKING THE AIR LIKE THIS, AND IF ANY PART OF YOU SHOULD FILL THAT AIR, IT’S YOUR OWN FAULT
“I think I outscored him in the first and third rounds. I think that in the third round, I was dead tired, but I kept firing and kept pressing the action, and I was able to get a takedown as well.” – Leonard Garcia, on his fight with Nam Phan at the TUF 12 finale. We all must have overlooked the “Fighting Spirit” portion of the judging criteria in the Unified Rules. (MMA Fighting)
“It’s almost a blessing in disguise. It almost made me more popular.” – Nam Phan. Asian kid still can’t get no love. (MMA Fighting)
“He talks about certain things that I do in the fight, but that’s just my fighting style. I don’t fight Joe Rogan’s fighting style. I apologize to Joe Rogan, but I can’t fight his style.” – Garcia, who needs to work on his “crackhead control.”
“I thought business is business, and I just thought if I lost, I lost, and I would only get my base pay. That’s how it usually goes.” – Phan
“I’ve won several Fight of the Night [bonuses] because of it, and I enjoy fighting that way. I think it’s something the fans deserve, is to see two guys give it their all. And that’s one thing I know about myself is I go out there and give it my all.” – Garcia. I would love fighting that way if it awarded me multiple decisions that I didn’t deserve, too.
“Dana White came by backstage and told me, ‘You’re getting your win bonus because you won that fight.'” – Phan. White then rode away on his white stallion, handing $100 to the homeless and turning water into wine.
THE ONE WHERE GEORGES GAVE KOS A VAGINA EYE
“Here’s what I didn’t think going into ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’ That people could possibly love Georges St. Pierre more than they already did. And that people could possibly hate Josh Koscheck more than they already did. And that’s what happened this season.” – UFC President Dana White. I wonder if the quasi-scripted and heavily-edited reality show had anything to do with that. (The Score)
“People always seem to want to watch a Josh Koscheck fight. They want to see me either get my ass kicked or they want to see me win.” – Josh Koscheck. They mostly want to see you get your ass kicked. (TheProvince.com)
“And Koscheck? I would say he’s not as clever as Dan Hardy, but not as bad as BJ Penn, either. I would put him third.” – Georges St. Pierre, the number one source for pound-for-pound trash talk rankings. (MMA Fighting)
“You either have to have a character or just be a plain bad-ass fighter, but sometimes being a bad-ass fighter isn’t enough.” – Koscheck, who will don the hood as Aldo Montoya after his ill-timed face turn at UFC 124. Hi Luke!
“If I want to go up, I’m going to stay up. I don’t want to play up, down, up, down.” – St. Pierre, who doesn’t know the Konami Code. (MMA Mania)
‘I would love [to fight at UFC 131], but it depends on the boss. If the boss wants it, I’m in.” – St. Pierre. Yeah, I’m not sure if Dana White’s gonna want GSP anchoring the UFC’s debut in Toronto’s cavernous Rogers Centre. (MMA Torch)
SIGH, I GUESS QUINTON COULD DO THE WHOLE ‘BLACK-ON-BLACK CRIME’ THING AGAIN
“The only thing that the Fake Mr. T has to do is sign the contract.” – James Toney, on Quiton Jackson. I suppose the IRS cometh again. (Fight Hype)
“Rampage is a decent club fighter and if he thinks his club fighting style can match my skills, then he is crazy as hell.” – Toney, with an effort that won’t place him high on GSP’s rankings.
“Is he mad because I called him an Uncle Tom or because I said Detroit wouldn’t accept him? “ – Toney. And the “Uncle Tom” reference bolts him right into the top ten.
“Rampage is a black redneck. He better stick to hanging with them white boys and keep my name out of his mouth. I ain’t hard to find; sign the contract!” – Toney
WHITE NOISE
“Joe Stevenson’s had a bad run, it’s so tough to cut a guy that comes in and does what he’s supposed to do, and he’s one of those guys. He got knocked out trying to knock [Mac Danzig] out tonight. That’s what happened.” – UFC President Dana White. So much for that “fighting for your life” at lightweight thing. (MMA Weekly)
“They blew their chance. That’s it. It’s over.” – White, on the failed “fans voting for fight of the night” idea that the UFC implemented at UFC 124. Yes, the fans failed with a concept they didn’t ask for because White disagreed with the results. (Cage Writer)
“Fly him over to England, fly him over to Asia, fly him to anywhere in Europe, Georges St. Pierre gets mobbed, nobody knows who the hell Wayne Gretzky is.” – White. You do know that ice hockey is pretty massive in Europe, right? (TSN)
PARTING SHOTS
“I swore from that point that I wouldn’t fight guys who weren’t good anymore. Then I went out and fought like three more guys who sucked, so I guess I didn’t stick to my morals on that one.” – Sean McCorkle, who claims to have almost killed a man in a sanctioned fight. I guess we saw what happens when he fights guys who don’t suck. (MMA Fighting)
“Coming out of AKA, BJ has kind of been the older brother or the older cousin that you never really knew, but everybody always talks about.” – Jon Fitch. I also have an older cousin who drinks blood and threatens to kill people. (MMA Fighting)
“I hope this fight stays standing the whole fight, to tell you the truth.” – John Howard, who lost to Thiago Alves standing at UFC 124. (MMA Weekly)
“I’ve been back and forth, back and forth. The lawyers are going back and forth, back and forth. We’ve already been in touch with the State Department about calling the Kremlin and giving us a hand to finish this contract. … In all seriousness, I think we’ll have something to announce here real soon.” – Scott Coker, on negotiations with Fedor Emelianenko and M-1 Global. They say there’s always truth in comedy… (Sherdog)