(Don’t look into his eyes. He’ll hypnotize you like he did the Black House guys.)
Well, Steven Seagal made it out to the festivities Saturday night in Denver and it’s beginning to seem like either he’s some kind of mixed martial arts guru or he’s a senile old man who is way out of touch with reality. My bet’s on the latter.
Our friends Karyn Bryant from MMA H.E.A.T. and Ariel Helwani from MMAFighting caught up with Sensei Seagal before and after the event, respectively, and let’s just say old cockpuncher had a few yarns to spin.
Check out the videos and the bullet points of the world according to The Glimmer Man:
(Video courtesy of YouTube/MMAHeat)
• Seagal counts Jones as a friend and refers to him as “Mr. Jon”
• He claimed that he was going to have some words of advice for Jones in his dressing room prior to the bout, but according to Jones at the post-fight presser, he turned down the offer
• He refers to Lyoto Machida and Anderson Silva as his “people” and his “sons” and “children”
• He said that Jones might use the front kick he taught Anderson and Lyoto, but later said he didn’t do it right because he hasn’t learned the deadly move yet
• He predicted that the fight would be decided on the ground by Jones by elbows
• He says Anderson wants to be a cop when he retires and that he may do so with him in Arizona
(Video courtesy of YouTube/ArielHelwani)
• According to a Tweet by Ariel Saturday night, Seagal told his cameraman what angle to shoot him at
• In spite of the fact that he said earlier that Jones’ elbo