Jason "Mayhem" Miller Retires?
by asmiley420 on Oct 20, 2008 5:13 PM EDT
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Fronted by Luke Thomas.
MMAmania.com has a piece up announcing the retirement of Jason "Mayhem" Miller. It seems like he just doesn't have that desire to fight again. Here's a quick quote from the original "Mayhem Monkey" himself regarding the retirement:
"I got plenty of money. I don’t even care. I just do it for fun. I love fighting, but I’m just doing it for fun. I don’t feel like doing it right now, so I’m not going to do it. There’s no need. There’s no need for me to fight, so I’m just happy to have lived such a fun career inside of MMA, so if it ends now, it was fun."
He also points out that he won't be completely gonne from the MMA scene:
"Oh, I will be in the MMA world. I can’t really escape this land of tacky skull tee shirts and [censored] with bad tattoos. I can’t get out of here that easily, but with that being said … I don’t know, I don’t need to fight."
This sucks. Not only was he a good fighter, but he's somebody you could always count on to say something to make you laugh. I hope it's more of a retirement like Paul Daley and we get to see Mayhem back again.
UPDATE: CagePotato.com has the unedited version of Mayhems Comments..
Oh, I will be in the MMA world. I can’t really escape this land of tacky skull T-shirts and spics with bad tattoos. I can’t get out of here that easily, but with that being said, I don’t need to fight…
UPDATE2: Fighthype (the original source of the interview) has posted this correction:
PC: How will the MMA world survive without you and these interviews?
JM: Oh, I will be in the MMA world. I can't really escape this land of tacky skull T-shirts and chicks [Editor's note: The word "chicks" was originally mistakenly heard to be "spics" due to background noise] with bad tattoos.
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Q: What does it mean when an athlete says 'it's not about the money?'
A: It’s about the money.
See: Randy Couture.
by subo on Oct 20, 2008 5:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I've always found it odd..
that guys like Brock Lesnar get shit on for poor sportsmanship for antics within a fight…but guys like Jason Miller can do things like shit all over a kid just trying to get an interview and everyone falls all over themselves about his wonderfully funny “personality.”
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by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 20, 2008 6:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I know...
that isn’t really relevant to the above story…but it’s always the first thing that jumps to mind when I think of the guy.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 20, 2008 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Never..
seen that before. That’s pretty shitty. If he didn’t wanna do it he shouldn’t have.
by asmiley420 on Oct 20, 2008 6:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Exactly...
it’s not like the kid was a member of the media elite who had it coming. He was just a guy looking for an interview. In my eyes that is WAY worse than Lesnar acting a fool in the heat of a fight.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 20, 2008 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I agree
it’s one thing to talk shit to another fighter, but when you basically shit on a fan like that, what is it saying to your other fans?
by asmiley420 on Oct 20, 2008 6:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
http://www.cagepotato.com/2008/10/20/jason-mayhem-miller-retires-e280%94-temporarily-at-least/ this fits in to what we’re talking about. It has the un edited version of mayhems interview.
by asmiley420 on Oct 20, 2008 7:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
For those who don't feel like clicking through...
“Oh, I will be in the MMA world. I can’t really escape this land of tacky skull tee shirts and [censored] with bad tattoos. I can’t get out of here that easily, but with that being said … I don’t know, I don’t need to fight.”
Really read:
“Oh, I will be in the MMA world. I can’t really escape this land of tacky skull tee shirts and spics with bad tattoos. I can’t get out of here that easily, but with that being said … I don’t know, I don’t need to fight.”
Props to cage potato for not letting it slide with a [censored] and taking him to task in their article afterward.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 20, 2008 7:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
by the way asmiley420...
it’s your article. You’re more than welcome to update it with that information…
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by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 20, 2008 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I heard he actually said CHICKS but who knows.
by smoogy on Oct 20, 2008 7:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
well...
…um…that’s offensive to feminists!
…but seriously that would be MUCH better
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by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 20, 2008 8:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
100% AGREE
Its a double standard. He dances to the ring tossing money with dancers and had someone dared do that in the UFC the internets would implode with people crying.
by banter on Oct 20, 2008 7:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
B.S.
Please don’t go accusing Mayhem of sexism now that he’s been exonerated of being a racist.
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by thetakeover on Oct 20, 2008 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think the wholel thing is a put on
making fun of Anderson Silva’s retirement talk.
by Kid Nate on Oct 20, 2008 9:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
[CENSORED]
Oh, the perils of a noisy room. I was wondering what had been said that was censored (mofos?). Then it gets revealed to be a racial slur, and poor Mayhem is briefly pilloried before it’s revealed that what he actually said was CHICKS!
This is where a follow up question, or factchecking with the source, would have saved everyone involved a lot of embarassment (not to mention potential lawsuits). I hope Mayhem is forgiving about this—I know I wouldn’t be if I were him.
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"And many men have eaten it." -- Goldy
by thetakeover on Oct 20, 2008 9:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
between his two fights with dream he made about 400k…he’s going to sit back and count his money for a while….. he’s young……. he’ll be back at some point though……
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by robnashville on Oct 20, 2008 10:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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