Donald Cerrone isn’t one to sit around and wait for a fight, but a shot at the lightweight title is apparently something he’ll make an exception for. The hard-charging striker has become one of the most popular fighters in mixed martial arts due to his anytime, anyplace mentality, and has backed up that bold talk […]
Donald Cerrone isn’t one to sit around and wait for a fight, but a shot at the lightweight title is apparently something he’ll make an exception for. The hard-charging striker has become one of the most popular fighters in mixed martial arts due to his anytime, anyplace mentality, and has backed up that bold talk […]
Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone just keeps winning. Since November 2013, Cerrone has fought seven times. He’s won seven times, too. With his win over Benson Henderson at UFC Fight Night 59 Sunday evening—his second win in as many weeks—Cerrone climbed ever closer to the top of the UFC’s lightweight mountain. A title shot is within sight […]
Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone just keeps winning. Since November 2013, Cerrone has fought seven times. He’s won seven times, too. With his win over Benson Henderson at UFC Fight Night 59 Sunday evening—his second win in as many weeks—Cerrone climbed ever closer to the top of the UFC’s lightweight mountain. A title shot is within sight […]
That old Donald Cerrone smile. That hauntingly charming smile. Backstage at UFC 182, promotional correspondent Megan Olivi met up with Cowboy following his unanimous-decision victory over the surging Myles Jury. She asked him if he was injury-free and looking to make a quick turnaround. True to form, Cerrone replied with a resounding “absolutely.” His answer […]
That old Donald Cerrone smile. That hauntingly charming smile. Backstage at UFC 182, promotional correspondent Megan Olivi met up with Cowboy following his unanimous-decision victory over the surging Myles Jury. She asked him if he was injury-free and looking to make a quick turnaround. True to form, Cerrone replied with a resounding “absolutely.” His answer […]
(Warning: Video above contains NSFW language.) Former WEC title challenger and perennial UFC contender Donald Cerrone could probably get a title shot if he defeats Eddie Alvarez at UFC 178 on Saturday. However, if that means waiting on the sidelines for six months, “Cowboy” would say “no, thanks,” based on a recent interview with Sherdog (transcription […]
(Warning: Video above contains NSFW language.) Former WEC title challenger and perennial UFC contender Donald Cerrone could probably get a title shot if he defeats Eddie Alvarez at UFC 178 on Saturday. However, if that means waiting on the sidelines for six months, “Cowboy” would say “no, thanks,” based on a recent interview with Sherdog (transcription […]
A word of advice: even if you’re the big dog in your gym, NEVER EVER accept the offer of a dude in a TapouT cowboy hat to spar, lest you might find yourself waking up with Donald Cerrone looking over you rubbing your chest and seeing if you’re okay.
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A word of advice: even if you’re the big dog in your gym, NEVER EVER accept the offer of a dude in a TapouT cowboy hat to spar, lest you might find yourself waking up with Donald Cerrone looking over you rubbing your chest and seeing if you’re okay.
Props to Donald for checking on his opponent without Greg Jackson’s prompting, though. And I call bullshit on the dude who posted it on YouTube being a friend of the guy who “Cowboy” KTFO. Friends don’t let friends with questionable stand-up spar with a UFC fighter, and they sure as hell don’t post it on YouTube.
We’re just playin’. The falling tree KO video actually was sent to us by JPReed1918 — the dude who shot the light sparring match-up between Cerrone and Andrei Arlovski’s brother….okay maybe it wasn’t Victor Arlovski, but he did look like him for a second there.
Here’s the actual explanation from the reader who shot the video:
Cage Potatoe <—-Dan Quail style,
So sorry I could not elaborate on the video. I figured it might get on a cagepotato link so I sent it during my class. The video was from a seminar Cerrone did for us and this was his 20-ish sparring match in a row. Dude let everyone who was there spar with him. He is a fucking class act and in fact he did the seminar for free for our gym. He had no ill intention of knocking out my teammate. He got tagged and after I ended the video all sparring stopped and we all had a good laugh. He was really concerned for my friend and felt terrible. We all went to hooters after. True story.
During Steve Cofield’s Vegas-based ESPN Radio show today, Donald Cerrone recalled an incident he had recently with Nate Diaz, and to put it lightly, he isn’t impressed with the level of disrespect his UFC 141 opponent showed him.
According to Cerrone, the confrontation happened at the open workouts for UFC 137 and he had no warning that it was going to go south quickly when he approached his teammate and friend Leonard Garcia who happened to be talking to Nate at the time.
(“You got a pretty mouth, Nate.”)
During Steve Cofield’s Vegas-based ESPN Radio show today, Donald Cerrone recalled an incident he had recently with Nate Diaz, and to put it lightly, he isn’t impressed with the level of disrespect his UFC 141 opponent showed him.
According to Cerrone, the confrontation happened at the open workouts for UFC 137 and he had no warning that it was going to go south quickly when he approached his teammate and friend Leonard Garcia who happened to be talking to Nate at the time.
Here’s what “Cowboy” says went down:
”Leonard’s my best friend; he’s my brother and he was over there talkin’ to the dude — if someone doesn’t like you, you’re not gonna talk to their best friend, you know what I’m sayin’…. you’re not gonna hang out with them — so Leonard’s over there talking with the dude, and I said, ‘Oh shit, I’ll go over there.’ They were laughing and joking around so when I go over and introduce myself and go, ‘What’s up Nate? I’m ‘Cowboy,’” Cerrone explained. “He fuckin’ slapped my hand away and called me a punk-ass motherfucker and told me to ‘get on.’ I was like, ‘Shit, alright.’ I don’t know what to say to the dude. I don’t know what his point… I guess he doesn’t want to be cordial. He just wanted to be a punk and… go ahead.”
He says that he was so taken aback by Diaz that he found himself at a loss for words at the time and that Diaz quickly exited the room after the incident happened, but points out that when they’re locked in the cage together December 30, there’s nowhere Nate can run.
“I was getting ready to fight Dennis Siver and then he walked away. He just took off after that. It kind of caught me by surprise. I don’t know anything about the guy. I just know that [he and Nick] just wake up pissed off all the time for no reason. It just seems like they’re always mad. Whatever he does to get his mind ready for the fight, it must be it.”
As Cofield points out, Cerrone has used the experience as motivation to train hard for the fight and he affirmed it during the countdown show.
“If you want to talk shit to me, you’re just gonna enrage me and piss me off,” said Cerrone. “So feed my fucking flame. That’s what I say. Let’s go!”
As far as Nate’s older brother goes, Cerrone couldn’t resist taking a jab at Nick’s incoherent ramblings at the press conference following his fight with BJ Penn.
“I was exploding into laughter on some of the comments,” he said. “I was waiting for someone to take the mic away from him, like, ‘That’s enough before you completely ruin yourself. That’ll be enough out of you.’ I was just surprised he kept going on about compensation and no one knew what the fuck he was talking about.”
