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<p style="line-height: 20.8px;">Mixed martial arts can elevate the human character and soul, if approached properly. However, mutual respect and dignity do not put asses in seats, and therefore dollars in the purse. Trash talk does.</p>
Nova Uniao founder Andre Pederneiras, is enormously respected for his honorable approach to character building, but in 2014, he announced his team was adopting a new policy.
"People have to understand that there are two side now in the MMA of today, mostly in the UFC: the sporty side and the business side," said Pederneiras to Combate , as translated byFernando Arbex for BE. "I've always learned and passed to all my athletes that you have to respect your opponent, even if you have beat the hell out of him. You always have to be polite and treat him in the best way. But this model is not attractive for the business side. You see people having title shots by talking a lot. I can say that it's wrong? I can't. By the business side, it's absolutely right. By the sporty side, it's wrong. As as coach and professor, I don't want to see my fighter doing trash talking and have altercations with other guys. I want him to be a UFC champion, but also be a good person, to be polite and learn things for the rest of his life. However, we'll have a meeting here to talk about the business side. We are in a dilemma. You have to enter in a fight thinking about the show or other guys will pass you."
Now Nova Uniao stars talk trash. Former featherweight champion Jose Aldo signed to fight Frankie Edgar at UFC 200 on July 11 and within days Aldo was telling reporters that Edgar was no better than he was when the pair fought in 2013.
However, trash talk is a skill, and by Edgar's telling, not one that Aldo possess in abundance.
"You're seeing it across the board in all weight classes," said Edgar to Shaun Al-Shatti for MMA Fighting. "Guys are getting more vocal. They're just seeing what it's done for Conor, so they're trying to kind of make their voice heard. I think that's what Aldo is doing.
"Arguably, you could say I haven't lost a round since me and Aldo fought. He's just been in some either pretty boring (fights), or wars since our fight. So, I think I'm the one who looks like he's evolved more than Aldo has. So yeah, I don't know. I think he's just talking the fight up."
Aldo said he "easily" decisioned Edgar, and that he did so with one arm, due to an injury. Edgar was not impressed.
"People are trying to talk," answered 'The Answer'. "He's just not that great at doing it, you know?
"He's just trying to create buzz, and I get what he's trying to do, but we all know he doesn't fight injured. The guy pulls out of fights every other fight, so he definitely doesn't fight injured. So we can just throw that one away. And everybody talks about how our fight was close. He wants to sit there and have this false sense of security? Maybe that's why he's trying to talk like this, because he's dealing with this knockout loss. But, by all means, go ahead and go in there super confident."
"I'm getting much more comfortable in my fights. I feel like I'm much better since we fought three years ago, or over three years ago now. I'm coming into my own in every aspect. I'm kind of finding my feet and hitting with some power. My wrestling and my ground-and-pound is much better. I'm going to go in, just be myself, foot on the gas.
"Whether by grinding him for five rounds or putting him away in the first, I want to show everyone that I came prepared and I'm the best fighter in the world."
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