Banter Before the Fight: Rashad Evans Is Nostradamus

by Luke Thomas on Sep 8, 2008 12:43 PM EDT in News Comment 17 comments

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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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Sugardamus

by B Money on Sep 8, 2008 12:52 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Winner

by LiuLang on Sep 8, 2008 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wow, he needs to change his nickname to Sugardamus ASAP.

by Day Man on Sep 8, 2008 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I guess Suga Rashad is living up to his moniker.

"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

by lovingmma25 on Sep 8, 2008 12:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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)

by Kel on Sep 8, 2008 2:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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.

by Warhand on Sep 8, 2008 3:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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.

by pr0cs on Sep 8, 2008 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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

by lovingmma25 on Sep 8, 2008 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I thought the Sanford & Son chest grab was pretty dope.

by Chris Nelson on Sep 8, 2008 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, I fully enjoyed the Fred Sanford chest grab myself.

"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

by lovingmma25 on Sep 8, 2008 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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 …

by thetakeover on Sep 8, 2008 5:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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

by lovingmma25 on Sep 8, 2008 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

… 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)

by Kierkegaard on Sep 8, 2008 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You guys are some literalist nitpickers.

by Luke Thomas on Sep 8, 2008 5:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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?

by Chris Nelson on Sep 8, 2008 5:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs