"Many times when a fighter loses, he has several excuses. I have only one. Today, he was the better man"-Renzo Gracie after his loss to Kazushi Sakuraba
The longer you watch mma, the more you realize it's rare for a losing fighter to get on the mic, or attend the post fight press conference, or do a post fight interview backstage.
Frankie Edgar almost in tears after his loss, still stuck around in the octagon to be intervied by Rogan. Frankie also went to the post fight press conference.
Losing will happen. It's how you handle losing.
Didn’t he also say this while his elbow was flipped the wrong way due to a kimura?
Yes. He bent it back the correct way and then got on the mic.
"I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America. There was a bus, this is a true story. There was a bus that pulled up to a red light, and Little Nog tried to feed it a carrot, while Big Nog was petting it. He thought it was a horse. - Chael Sonnen.
“He may have thought it was a cow, or a llama, I don’t know, but he stuck that carrot right in the grill! Big Nog was taking off his belt to lasso that thing. They were gonna take it home. Oh, that got awkward for everybody!”
#1, Tito didn't make up that story. It's from a movie and Christopher Walken says the story
#2. Tito butchered the fuck out of the story. He was trying to sound deep like the original yt video but he screwed up lines, stuttered, and just typically Tito'd that story to shit.
#1, Tito didn't make up that story. It's from a movie and Christopher Walken says the story
#2. Tito butchered the fuck out of the story. He was trying to sound deep like the original yt video but he screwed up lines, stuttered, and just typically Tito'd that story to shit.
'I never go in confident. Any sucker can get lucky and give you a crack in the chin. I go in saying to myself, 'Kill him. Kill him. Kill him.' Otherwise, he'll kill me.'
You had the call out ready as well, why is that the fight to make?(Michael Chiesa calling out Colby Covington)
Because he’s the toughest match up for me. $tylistically that guy should beat me any given Sunday.
From a physical standpoint, from a mental warfare standpoint, there’s not a lot of boxes you can check that favor me in that fight. How can I say I want to be a champion if I don’t want to fight the best guys? Sometimes the best guys are the ones toughest for you $tylistically so when I look at the top 5 that’s the toughest match up for me.
My favorite is Chris Leben’s comparison of fighters and strippers.
“Fighters are like strippers; they ain’t paying their way through college. If you don’t understand what that means, you have to realize that there is always something underlying with all of us. Nobody in their right mind, no normal, sane person, goes ‘[expletive] college, screw my guidance counselor. I’m going to put all my chips in one basket to become a cage fighter so I can get the crap kicked out of me in front of other people.’ Obviously, there is something wrong going on there”
"Father put me wrestling with bear. I told him 'this bear try to bite me', and I remember when he told me, "bite him back. You have to wrestle and keep going'"
You know no one in the world can say this quote other than Khabib.