MMA quotes from today...

Mark Hominick wrote:

You’ve Got to Put On an Exciting Fight or You’ll Be Buried on the Undercard

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FX has not announced the official date or night that the next installment of TUF will air, however, it is highly unlikely it will air Wednesday nights," wrote Dominic Pagone, the Vice President of Media Relations of FX in a message to MMAFighting.com. "The official announcement will be coming in the next two or three weeks.

Rory MacDonald wrote:

I think (Penn) is fighting for the wrong reasons, and it's going to get him hurt
...
He's fighting for status, something that isn't real. People's opinions,
he wants to change people's opinions. Maybe he doesn't realize that
those things are not real.

Dan Severn wrote:

Companies were contacting me from all over the place. I had a pager. I'd get calls and have to be ready with 24 hours notice to get to the airport, to a destination I'd just find out about, transported to a location to be determined, against an opponent I just found out, with a purse I just found out. They were almost all an underground type of thing.

Once, I had an opportunity to fight in Mexico. It was in a cockfighting pit. The idea of the show was to start with rooster fights, then do dog fights, and finish as the main event with human beings. This organization wanted no rules at all, and you could wear jeans and cowboy boots. I turned that one down. I thought, 'I may win, but I may not get out alive.'

Hector Lombard wrote:

Well, my response is like
he needs to be a better person on the inside. You know? I think that
the guy, something really wrong happened to him. You know? He needs to
be a better person, inside and out. I say stuff about him, because he
made the comment that he was going to break my leg regardless if I would
have tapped or not.

Which is, you know, I don't know what's wrong with that guy. And now,
you know, that happened to him. I mean, he's a cheater. What else can I
say?

Well, I never had respect for him from the beginning anyway. How can I
have respect for a guy that intentionally breaks people's legs. I cannot
have respect for that guy. You know, I think that he is a shame for the
sport.

The sport needs to clean up from people like him. I think that he needs
to go and fight people in the street or something. This is a
professional sport where you need discipline and you need to be a
professional. Guys like that are bad for the UFC. They are bad for the
sport. Shame on him.

Glover Teixeira wrote:

"Imagine if your brain was like in your stomach or somewhere or the feet somewhere, and you can't get knocked out. All the fights would go three rounds, and they'd be bored. People like fights because of the knockouts and submissions. That's what makes the sport so exciting."

GDPofDRC wrote:

Glover Teixeira wrote:

"Imagine if your brain was like in your stomach or somewhere or the feet somewhere, and you can't get knocked out. All the fights would go three rounds, and they'd be bored. People like fights because of the knockouts and submissions. That's what makes the sport so exciting."

Dana White wrote:

"If he starts training again and gets another injury that's going to
take him out for a year – and I hate to even say this about the kid
since he's a really good kid – but he should seriously probably look at
retiring," White said. "But I'm not taking something like [the title]
from somebody.

"The way that it works in the fight business is
you beat the man who beat the man. Obviously, though, if he had to
retire, then [the interim titleholder] would automatically become the
champion."

"We expect him to come back," White said. "Everything is going as
well as can be expected, and hopefully he comes back soon. But that's
really all I can say."

GDPofDRC wrote:

Dana White wrote:

"If he starts training again and gets another injury that's going to
take him out for a year – and I hate to even say this about the kid
since he's a really good kid – but he should seriously probably look at
retiring," White said. "But I'm not taking something like [the title]
from somebody.

"The way that it works in the fight business is
you beat the man who beat the man. Obviously, though, if he had to
retire, then [the interim titleholder] would automatically become the
champion."

"We expect him to come back," White said. "Everything is going as
well as can be expected, and hopefully he comes back soon. But that's
really all I can say."

I approve, only way an actual champion should lose his title outside of the cage is if he retires, joins a different promotion or if he or she has a big problem with rule infractions.

Rey "Sugarfoot" Sefo wrote:

"All these fighters looking for a home, obviously for us, it's gotta
make sense. I don't think we're at a point yet where we can go and play
with that kind of money. That's just being real. We'll take one step at a
time. 'Rampage' is a great fighter and he would be a great asset, but
at the same time it's kinda pointless for us to do any kind of
negotiation like that [during his UFC matching period]. We'll just wait
and let that play out."

"Anderson would go to (welterweight), too,” “Yeah, he said he’d do it. He says he can make (170) easy. It’s insane.”

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“TRT has become a way for people to cheat. If this is what your normal level should be and then you have guys training at huge levels (of testosterone) for their whole camp then tapering down to get to normal levels before the fucking fight, that’s cheating, and I don’t like it anymore.”

Chale Sonnen wrote:

"Does Lyoto Machida deserve another title shot? Absolutely. Is he a great fighter? Absolutely. I'm in on the business. I'm in on the pay per view. So is Jon Jones, but neither of us want to fight him because he can't draw flies. That's the bottom line. He got booed tonight, he got booed in his last fight. I can't sell out an arena with you. I can't sell PPV's with you. I'm not giving him the shot. Alexander Gustafsson, Gegard Mousasi, step up and I'll take the winner."

Hector Lombard wrote:

(Okami)'s extremely strong, and he has a long reach. It's going to be fun. He's going to come and hug me. I don't want to be hugged, so I've got to punch him

.....

become boring, and then get cut because you're boring. I don't want to do that. I want to go out there and punch him and be exciting. I don't care if I get KOd. I just want to punch him left and right."

GDPofDRC wrote:

Hector Lombard wrote:

(Okami)'s extremely strong, and he has a long reach. It's going to be fun. He's going to come and hug me. I don't want to be hugged, so I've got to punch him

.....

become boring, and then get cut because you're boring. I don't want to do that. I want to go out there and punch him and be exciting. I don't care if I get KOd. I just want to punch him left and right."

Yikes, more fighters with the idea in their head that it's not about winning or losing, it's about Just Bweeding!

GDPofDRC wrote:

Damned if you do damned if you don't world. The only safety at Zuffa comes from being good enough to not just win but finish your fight or being interesting to people who don't care a whole lot about MMA.

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“Gomi better not be crying I missed weight, after I win because those 2 lbs cost 24 thousand dollars. If I could have cut it I would have “ Sanchez tweeted early this morning.