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SAN FRANCISCO – If you missed Clay Guida at Thursday afternoon’s UFC 117 press conference, maybe it’s because you didn’t think to check the floor. The longtime UFC lightweight showed up along with the other fighters on the card, but he didn’t have a spot at the table up front.
Instead he grabbed some carpet in the front row, made himself comfortable, and waited for the questions to end so he could receive his Cazadores Tequila Spirit Award from UFC president Dana White. It was a nice moment, but also a somewhat odd one, given the circumstances.
“It is kind of different not to answer one fight-related question until now,” Guida told MMA Fighting after the press conference. “But it’s an honor to be on what I think is the most stacked card of 2010. Everyone knows how it is when I get in the ring. It’s going to be a battle, a war, and it ain’t going to be pretty.”