Tag: Interview

Chuck Mindenhall, UFC – Epiphanies can occur mid-bout for fighters, and thankfully for some the light bulb comes on before they’re lying supine on the canvas. Johny Hendricks had a little mid-fight epiphany in his last UFC bout with TJ Grant this past May, somewhere in the last round of a drag-em-out affair. The gist? Well, let’s just say Hendricks realized he’d been keeping things a little too civil for his own good.

Mike Russell, UFC – Roy Nelson may not fit the cookie cutter stereotype of what most people picture when they think of an MMA fighter, but the unassuming, 34-year-old Las Vegas native makes no apologies for being a wolf in sheep’s clothing whose skill set is often underestimated due to such preconceived notions.
Sure he may not have a six-pack, nor is he covered in tattoos but one thing is for sure: Big Country can fight.

Mike Russell, UFC – If you’ve ever thought you had a tough go in life, talk to DaMarques Johnson and your tribulations will likely seem trivial – not just by comparison, but when put in perspective by the adage he has lived his life by since he was a child.

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Ask Brock Lesnar what he missed the most during a nearly one year layoff due to illness, and he fires back with a typically quick retort.
“The paychecks.”
What follows next is a deep laugh that probably wasn’t heard too much in the Lesnar household after a bout with what was eventually discovered to be diverticulitis put the baddest man on the MMA planet in a hospital bed and threatened his career.

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – When a back injury kept two-time Division II All-American linebacker Shane Carwin from making a run at a career in the NFL, there was no telling him that this was just a detour and not his final destination.

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – In this Saturday’s pivotal meeting of lightweight contenders at UFC 116 in Las Vegas, if Kurt Pellegrino is fire, then George Sotiropoulos is most certainly ice.