sugarngold
05-07-2009, 10:00 AM
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"He's certainly more experienced than you. This is going to be his 50th pro fight, whereas your record, depending on where you look, is either 9-5 or 16-5.
I don't know about 9-5, I think it's 16-5. Some places don't have all the fights listed, but that's neither here nor there. That doesn't matter to me at all. If you look at the quality of the fights that we've fought, we've fought similar guys. We've both fought BJ Penn ([Only registered and activated users can see links]), we've both fought Georges St. Pierre ([Only registered and activated users can see links]). If you look at who we've fought, maybe he's got me on quantity, but a lot of his wins are in Midwest shows against guys who were never heard from again. If you look at quality, I've fought just as tough guys as him. I've never fought an easy fight. You never get one in the UFC. I don't think it's experience, I think it comes down to skill. I think that's going to be a big difference. He's fought so long being the bully -- being the bigger, stronger guy -- that even though he's probably stronger than me, and he's bigger, it comes down to technique, and I've got a definite edge in technique on him. That's definitely going to come into play."
"He's certainly more experienced than you. This is going to be his 50th pro fight, whereas your record, depending on where you look, is either 9-5 or 16-5.
I don't know about 9-5, I think it's 16-5. Some places don't have all the fights listed, but that's neither here nor there. That doesn't matter to me at all. If you look at the quality of the fights that we've fought, we've fought similar guys. We've both fought BJ Penn ([Only registered and activated users can see links]), we've both fought Georges St. Pierre ([Only registered and activated users can see links]). If you look at who we've fought, maybe he's got me on quantity, but a lot of his wins are in Midwest shows against guys who were never heard from again. If you look at quality, I've fought just as tough guys as him. I've never fought an easy fight. You never get one in the UFC. I don't think it's experience, I think it comes down to skill. I think that's going to be a big difference. He's fought so long being the bully -- being the bigger, stronger guy -- that even though he's probably stronger than me, and he's bigger, it comes down to technique, and I've got a definite edge in technique on him. That's definitely going to come into play."