“The American Psycho” Stephan Bonnar was asked recently by CagePotato.com why his fellow season one “TUF” finalist, Forrest Griffin, had become hostile to the media.
Griffin had been pretty friendly to the media, using his humor to win reporters and fans over easily. Bonnar explains that it all changed after the media turned on him after his loss to Anderson Silva and that he doesn’t feel the need to “schmooze” them anymore.
Yeah, pretty much. He knows it’s really not necessary anymore. In the early days he was really good and funny — he could be funny and turn it on whenever he wants — but in his mind, you shmooze the media and do great interviews and make people laugh, and then he loses a fight and everyone hates him and writes him off and says he’s shit anyway. So then he gets bitter. Then he’s like, “well fuck it, I’m a New York Times best-seller, I’m pretty high on the UFC roster, I’m getting the big-money main event fights, and I don’t need to shmooze to you media anymore, who will just turn around and stab me in the back anyway, because I’m already here.” And that’s kind of what I get out of it.