Banter Before the Fight: Rashad Evans Is Nostradamus
by Luke Thomas on Sep 8, 2008 12:43 PM EDT
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"I really don't think about being undefeated...I'm just going to go out there, let my hands fly and see what happens."
-- Rashad Evans talking to the Washington Post prior to his monumtental KO victory over Chuck Liddell at UFC 88.
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Be Like Water
Looks like Rashad got those Bruce Lee tapes his momma sent him…Also a bit of foreshadowing with a member of Rich Franklins corner talking about his precise ability to find the liver (see: Matt Hamill crumple in pain)
Genarally Humble
Evans takes a lot of heat from the haters for being a show boater. I personally don’t mind show boaters as I consider it entertaining (Think Mohammed Ali) but Evans is actually pretty humble for being the undefeated bad ass “mofo” that he is. In all of the interviews I have seen he is soft spoken and pretty “matter of fact” about what he is talking about. This quote is a good example of that as was his post fight interview.
Yeah, after his KTFO of Liddell my wife thought he was kind of an ass for dancing around in the cage. I said “listen, no one, and I mean NO one though he had much of a chance against Liddell and here he clobbered Liddell back to 1982, I am perfectly fine he’s doing a happy dance..” Shit, I probably would have being doing a lot more grandstanding that he was if I was in his shoes.
Why didn’t he pay another tribute to GSP and do the flip or breakdance?
"My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions." --George W. Bush, The Decider, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007
Not quite psychic
All he said was that he was gonna throw punches. Now, if he said, “I’m gonna catch him with an overhand right when he comes in for a sloppy uppercut, and he’ll fall down and look dead” then maybe I’d believe he has the third eye …
LOL
"My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions." --George W. Bush, The Decider, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007
… maybe your’e not too familiar with the “quality” of Nostradamus’ predictions. Evans “predicting” that he’d try to hit Chuck and then see what happens is actually just about as strikingly pinpointed and accurate as most of Nostradamus’ predictions were …. (though I doubt that’s really what Luke was going for here)
More nitpicking...
“Tonight I’m hosting Chuck Liddell’s retirement party. After this fight, he’s gonna take off his gloves and walk his old ass out the octagon, and I’m gonna stand there, bein’ the victor.”
Did Chuck actually walk out of the octagon?
Maybe not, but he sure made Chuck dribble into it.
by AJB on Sep 8, 2008 6:08 PM EDT up reply actions
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