Former WEC lightweight champ Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis (16-2) will face one of the toughest fights in his career this summer when he takes on UFC featherweight title holder Jose Aldo. “Jose (Aldo) brings problems to anybody. He is an athletic guy. He’s a student of the game. A black belt in Jiu-Jitsu. Doesn’t have to […]
Anthony Pettis celebrates his first round victory over Donald Cerrone at UFC on FOX 6 – image via the UFC Facebook page
Former WEC lightweight champ Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis (16-2) will face one of the toughest fights in his career this summer when he takes on UFC featherweight title holder Jose Aldo.
“Jose (Aldo) brings problems to anybody. He is an athletic guy. He’s a student of the game. A black belt in Jiu-Jitsu. Doesn’t have to use his ground game in a fight. His striking is in the top of the lightweight…featherweight division. For me it’s intriguing, I’m excited to get ready for this fight. It’s going to push me to be my best.”
“My last two fights I had awesome performances against top level strikers and good guys in the lightweight division, so you put me in there with Jose Aldo it’s fireworks.”
The two are expected to meet in Brazil this August in the main event of UFC 163 in Rio de Janeiro.
Speaking to the TapouT Radio crew on Tuesday, Pettis talked about making the move down to 145-lbs after from lightweight as well as meeting one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world.
“They approached me to see if I wanted the role on ‘The Winter Soldier.’ I had it and it was a great experience, I made a lot of new friends. It was a lot of fun for a week. We filmed it for a week. I’m a badass in the movie, I’m a villain guy. […]
“They approached me to see if I wanted the role on ‘The Winter Soldier.’ I had it and it was a great experience, I made a lot of new friends. It was a lot of fun for a week. We filmed it for a week. I’m a badass in the movie, I’m a villain guy. My character is very good. I like my character he is very sinister and he speak French, and he is a French-mercenary who is a martial art expert. He’s also an Olympic lifting champion, so he is very strong, very strong guy.”
UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre joins the Bad Boys of Fight Club and talks about his acting experience working as a cast member in the upcoming film, ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier,’ where he’ll play the villain, Batroc The Leaper. Catch SiriusXM Fight Club every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 4P-6P EST on Sirius 92 / XM 208 and online on Sportszone.
As the Ultimate Fighter finale is just days away, two of the top fighters on the card join MMA‘s Great Debate for interviews as well as topics surrounding the biggest news in the MMA world. Miesha Tate will drop by for an interview discussing her upcoming fight against Cat Zingano at the Ultimate Fighter 17 […]
As the Ultimate Fighter finale is just days away, two of the top fighters on the card join MMA‘s Great Debate for interviews as well as topics surrounding the biggest news in the MMA world. Miesha Tate will drop by for an interview discussing her upcoming fight against Cat Zingano at the Ultimate Fighter 17 […]
UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre is in the midst of his weight-cut for his upcoming bout with Nick Diaz this Saturday in the main event of UFC 158. Despite his own misery, ‘Rush’ is still doing his best to promote the fight by doing interviews with the media. In this particular telephone interview, the guys […]
Megalodon tooth with two great white shark teeth – image via Wikipedia
UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre is in the midst of his weight-cut for his upcoming bout with Nick Diaz this Saturday in the main event of UFC 158. Despite his own misery, ‘Rush’ is still doing his best to promote the fight by doing interviews with the media.
In this particular telephone interview, the guys over at SirusXM’s Fight Club change things up from the standard questions about this weekends bout in Montreal to ask the champ what he loves outside of the cage.
Fans of GSP and the hardcores will now that it’s paleontology, the study of prehistoric life, in particular dinosaurs.
Here’s what the champ had to say about his passion outside of the cage.
“Yeah, I love paleontology. That is one of the things I really love outside of mixed martial arts.
I have been studying paleontology since I was a kid. I love it. I love it even more than mixed martial arts.
I like to keep myself updated on the paleontology subject. I am a member of a lot of paleontological websites and organizations. Every time they discover something new they…I have the information in my email.
I receive…I have a gift a Megalodon tooth which is a pre-historic shark. The tooth is like two-million years old and a Tyrannosaurus Rex mini-skull and I plan to have other stuff too that I want.
…It’s actually not a real T-Rex it’s an imitation. A real T-Rex skull I couldn’t put it in my room I’d have to put it in my back yard.”
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Megalodon, which means “big tooth,” it was a species of shark which lived approx. 28-1.5 million years ago which reached a length of 15.9-20.3 metres (52-67 ft). It basically looked like a great white shark on steroids.
George has one of these at home and it is still apparently still very sharp.
Maybe he should carry that with him wherever he goes just in case he gets jumped by Diaz before Saturday’s fight?
UFC women’s bantamweight Julie Kedzie (16-11) was a guest on TapouT Radio earlier today offering her thoughts on the first appearance of females inside the Octagon with UFC champ Ronda Rousey’s victory over Liz Carmouche. Of course the question was asked about how she feels she would fair against the champ. “I wouldn’t be in […]
Julie Kedzie
UFC women’s bantamweight Julie Kedzie (16-11) was a guest on TapouT Radio earlier today offering her thoughts on the first appearance of females inside the Octagon with UFC champ Ronda Rousey’s victory over Liz Carmouche. Of course the question was asked about how she feels she would fair against the champ.
“I wouldn’t be in this sport if I didn’t think I could beat everybody. And I do believe in my heart that I can beat Ronda Rousey. Whether or not I’m ready at this point in my grappling development and my development as a fighter, I don’t know. I definitely see areas where I think I could capitalize, but you know again I know it’s very popular thing to do to call people out saying ‘You suck here, I’m going to beat you here.’ It’s never been my way of doing things, it’s not going to be my way of doing things. However I do have a plan in mind should I have the opportunity to face her and I do believe I would win.”
UFC Female Bantamweight Julie Kedzie gives her take on UFC Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey’s title fight with Liz Carmouche and how she feel’s she’d fair against the Champ, with Punk-Ass, Skyscrape & Ricky Bones on TapouT Radio. You can catch TapouT Radio every Thursday from 2-4pm EST on Sirius 92 XM 208 & online with the SiriusXM App on Sportszone.
