Forrest talks about big weight cut, fighting out of the US

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/7/6/2262182/always-honest-forrest-griffin-tells-sherdog-hes-anticipating-a
Always honest, Forrest Griffin tells Sherdog he's anticipating a difficult weight cut and conditioning issues for his upcoming fight in Rio against Mauricio "Shogun" Rua:

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"I definitely put on more weight than I would like," Griffin told
Sherdog.com. "I need to cut weight and it won’t be easy. I’ll have a lot
of problems until the fight in Brazil, but I’ve gotta do it. I don’t
want to fight at heavyweight, so I gotta cut that f--king weight."

"He’s one of the best fighters ever," Griffin said of his opponent,
who he submitted in September 2007. "He has a blitz style. He goes
forward. He’s dangerous. I gotta make him move backward and let’s see
what happens. I want to go hard for all 15 minutes of the fight."

"It’s difficult to adjust yourself [to another country]," said
Griffin. "There’s the jetlag thing, and it’s difficult to make weight
since Brazil doesn’t have the distilled water I use in the U.S. and the
food I need to eat. It’s always difficult to change your routine when
you go to another country. I feel stupid because I can’t communicate
with people from the hotels and can’t even say how I want my eggs. It’s
clearly a pain in the ass."

If Forrest does find a way to win this rematch, I'll have to seriously re-evaluate him as a fighter.

I see that he is already thinking about grinding it out with him. That's dumb in my opinion if you are fighting Shogun you gotta put him out he's too dangerous.

$100 says Rua knocks him out cold and Forrest runs out the arena again.

This will show us who Shogun REALLY is

killerofchicken wrote:

This will show us who Shogun REALLY is

You're kinda right. We know who is, but what his body is still capable of... that will be seen in this fight.

killerofchicken wrote:

This will show us who Shogun REALLY is

Did losing to Bones make you question who Shogun is? I mean I get what your saying if Shogun finishes Forrest it would prove he's still that badass but losing to Bones imo shouldn't make Shogun look that bad.

MMAEYES wrote:

killerofchicken wrote:

This will show us who Shogun REALLY is

Did losing to Bones make you question who Shogun is? I mean I get what your saying if Shogun finishes Forrest it would prove he's still that badass but losing to Bones imo shouldn't make Shogun look that bad.

dont get me wrong, im a HUGE Shogun fan but if he comes in out of shape and gasses against Forest it wont look good for him... and im not just basing this on the Bones fight

killerofchicken wrote:

MMAEYES wrote:

killerofchicken wrote:

This will show us who Shogun REALLY is

Did losing to Bones make you question who Shogun is? I mean I get what your saying if Shogun finishes Forrest it would prove he's still that badass but losing to Bones imo shouldn't make Shogun look that bad.

dont get me wrong, im a HUGE Shogun fan but if he comes in out of shape and gasses against Forest it wont look good for him... and im not just basing this on the Bones fight

he came in out of shape and injured against machida the second time yet he finished him. no matter what shape shogun shows up in though he will still be a dangerous fighter to anyone in the lhw division. the best shogun that has fought in the ufc was the one that came in with a great gameplan and wasnt agressive and took his time against machida the first time. i pick that shogun over any lhw not named evans or jones but if he comes in agressive like he did against forrest the first time or machida in their second bout their is a 50/50 chance he will get the ko win or be gassed by the third

throwdown and his "Shogun was out of shape and trash" theory about the second Machida fight. Did you see how fucking fast he was that night? Skip that noise man.

Wolfgangsta wrote:

throwdown and his "Shogun was out of shape and trash" theory about the second Machida fight. Did you see how fucking fast he was that night? Skip that noise man.

lol, tito was pretty fast lat sat but we all know had it gone to the third how he would of looked like. sorry wolf, i take shoguns camp word for it, you know the guys that train and know him. the guys that were aware of his condition goin into the fight.

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Whats with the privatised video, OU?

Ludo wrote:

Whats with the privatised video, OU?

Fucking gay, it wasn't private when I posted it. But it did have some annoying feature that made it auto play when you opened the thread.

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