Sean McCorkle talks a big game and often wages legendary trash-talking campaigns against his opponents.
But “Big Sexy,” who continues a post-UFC run on the prelims of Friday’s Bellator 60 event, said such bravado sometimes masks his own nerves and stress. For example, there was the time UFC president Dana White pulled him aside just before a massive UFC 124 co-main-event opportunity.
“You know, if you win this, it’ll change your life,'” White told him before an eventual TKO flop to Stefan Struve.