The Week in Quotes: November 15th - 21st
by Mike Fagan on Nov 22, 2009 7:00 PM EST
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I BROKE MY BACK. MY BACK IS BROKEN.
"I thought I won the first round and I thought I won the second round. I got two takedowns. You see the damage on his face? I got him good." - Former UFC light heavyweight champ Tito Ortiz, upset at the judges' decision of his fight with Forrest Griffin at UFC 106. Everyone knows 30-26 is the only reasonable scoredcard. (Cage Writer)
"In the third round I was gassed. After 18 months off, I want to see another fighter come in after back surgery and do what I did." - Ortiz. It's amazing he was even able to step in the cage. What a warrior.
"I had disc C-7 or C-6 pressing on my spinal cord." - Ortiz, also complained of a "cracked skull" in the post-fight interview with Joe Rogan. (MMA Mania)
"I thought I won. The judge called it 30-27, I mean what the [expletive], are you blind or something?" - Ortiz
"How the [expletive] are you giving him Fight of the Night?" - Ortiz, reacting to Dana White's announcement that Fight of the Night honors went to Josh Koscheck and Anthony Johnson.
"Here we go again. We're back!" - UFC President Dana White. Let the kayfabe roll.
MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN A WASTE - I'VE BEEN A FAILURE
"Karo Parisyan has fucked over the UFC, the fans and his opponent again!!! He will not be fighting" - UFC President Dana White, who also wants you to know that HE DOES NOT WATCH WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE BECAUSE HE IS AN ADULT!!!!!! (Twitter)
"There’s a lot of problems going on. They won’t re-license me unless I (expletive) pay them." - Karo Parisyan. Interestingly enough, NSAC head Keith Kizer said they worked out a payment plan to allow Parisyan to fight. Who would have thought a drug addict would lie about such a thing, bro? (MMA Weekly)
"I had to pay the $32,000 fine in order to fight. I never paid because I never had the money. I don’t know if I’ll be able to come back." - Parisyan
"If I can come into this fight in shape and with a clear mind, I should be able to win this fight decisively." - Parisyan, who was not of clear mind when he made this statement. (UFC.com)
MY INTENTIONS WERE NOT TO FASCINATE THE WORLD WITH MY PERSONALITY
"That being said, antics or not, he is OUR UFC HWT Champion. He beat a future Hall of Famer to keep that belt and he NEEDS our prayers and good thoughts right now." - Heavyweight title contender Shane Carwin. Did he just call Frank Mir a future Hall of Famer? (The Underground Forums)
"Talk of stripping a man of his title due to illness will set this sport back farther then anything Brock has ever said. We need our Champions healthy and defending." - Carwin. Really, Shane? For six months you've waxed endlessly about Brock Lesnar's disrespect to the fans, to the sport, and to his fellow competitors. Now you're going to try and tell me that setting up some sort of interim title will set the sport farther back than the aforementioned "villainous" actions? It's hard to see you up on that high horse, buddy.
I WANT TO THROW DOWN YOUR KID ON STOMP ON HIS TESTICLES
"I had a conversation with Doug Crosby, and he said that during one of the [UFC] fights, one of these boxing people that have come over and started judging MMA. Someone was attempting a submission, and this person turned to him and said, 'What is he doing?' How crazy is that?" - UFC color commentator Joe Rogan. My question is: how widespread is this pandemic? (Sports Illustrated)
"This is a professional mixed martial arts judge at the highest level of the sport, someone who is judging an Ultimate Fighting Championship bout, between two guys that are professional fighters. Their careers are on the line, it's a huge contest, two equally skilled guys in a hotly contested match, and the judge has literally no idea what's going on." - Rogan, finally editorializing in an appropriate environment!
PEOPLE LOVE YOU WHEN YOU'RE SUCCESSFUL, BUT IF YOU'RE NOT, WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT YOU?
"I didn't hit him in the head, I hit him in the arm. I don't know why he would act like [that], I guess he was gassing." - Anthony "Rumble" Johnson, on a whacky series of events in his fight with Josh Koscheck at UFC 106 involving a knee, a hand graze, and, in later pictoral evidence, a poke in the eye. (MMA Mania)
"I thought I timed it perfect but I didn't and that's my fault." - Johnson, on the knee. It was perfectly timed if you wanted to take his head off.
"After him poking me in the eye it made a big difference. Then he did it twice and got both eyes the second time because when he swings, he jabs with his open hand and the right didn't even hit me, it was just the open palm strike and my eyes, my eyes are burning like hell right now." - Johnson, on Koscheck's multiple eye pokes later in the fight. Johnson's already had major surgery to repair damage after multiple eye pokes in his first fight with Kevin Burns.
HE'S NO ALEXANDER! I'M ALEXANDER! I'M THE BEST EVER!
"Nevertheless, when I become a legend, I want to distinguish myself from the aforementioned names and become the greatest among all the legends by becoming the number one in both K-1 and MMA -- in other words, a 'double legend.'" - Strikeforce heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem (Dream Official)
PARTING SHOTS
"So it definitely needs to be cut up and looked at. Not maybe by somebody like me, but by somebody who's not favoring one style or one anything." - Marcus Davis, on fixing judging in MMA. Read Bloody Elbow this week, Marcus! (MMA Mania)
"Just because Brock Lesnar is not in the main event doesn’t mean there won’t be great fights. If you’re a fight fan you want great fights. We deliver great fights." - UFC President Dana White, trying to sell UFC 106 any way he can. (MMA Mania)
"The doctor told him he hasn't been right for a year. His immune system has been trying to fight this thing and that's why he was susceptible to getting sick." - White, revealing Lesnar's injury - an infection that burned a hole in his intestine. Lesnar's surgeon commented that a horseshoe was not found "up his ass." (Yahoo)
"I don't see anything different in Forrest Griffin. I see the same weaknesses that he has, you know? He doesn't punch hard." - Tito Ortiz. Pot meet kettle. (Heavy.com)
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Where is the pictoral eveidence of Rumble's eye poke on KOS?
I think that needs to be highlighted. Personally, I think it happened. After the illegal knee rumble’s right hand grazed Kos’ forehead, as he was following through his ring finger or little finger very lightly grazed Kos’ left eye. That’s the way I seen it.
Anyone who has had something just brush your eye like that knows how weird it can make your vision for a bit. I don’t think Kos was pretending at all.
So where’s this pic?
Koscheck's poke > Johnson's supposed graze
Koscheck’s fingers went all the way in Johnson’s eye, who still took less time to recover then Kos did from Johnson’s little finger “lightly grazing” Koscheck’s eye. I won’t specify which eye, because even Kos doesn’t seem to know which one. It’s also worth noting that Johnson, who was winning the exchanges before he got poked, was losing them afterwards. I think Johnson is more of the victim here.
Either way it was a good fight that was otherwise ruined by the number of fouls. It should probably just be left at that.
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
by lowellthehammer on Nov 22, 2009 7:27 PM EST up reply actions
I’m not positive, but I remember seeing johnsons finger poke kos’ eye before the knee when he reached to grab the back of kos’ head for a plum. It wasn’t in the replays because the clip started after the eye poke.
by MikeD32 on Nov 22, 2009 7:38 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
When I saw it,
Johnson poked Koscheck in the eye pretty hard on the way to his feet, and then delivered the knee to Koscheck’s arm when Kos went to cover his eye. Accidental, but still eye poke and knee to a grounded opponent. Johnson deserved the point loss.
by Bleedbluecp2 on Nov 22, 2009 11:17 PM EST up reply actions
since the knee did not land to the head there is no foul there. the eye poke… well if you take a point for every eye poke how many would you have taken from kos… 3 or 4??
by gremlin1496 on Nov 23, 2009 12:03 AM EST up reply actions
The hand was a little bit up
when Larson blasted his kneed to a “grounded opponent.” This isn’t like the Mike Aina fight, Kos got nailed in the face with a HUGE knee from a knockout artist while his knees were on the mat.
I watched gifs of supposed eye pokes that happened before and after the knee, neither one got Koschecks eye. The entire situation is ridiculous.
by VegasBatman on Nov 23, 2009 12:39 AM EST up reply actions
I can’t tell if Tito is attempting to be controversial for attention, or if he is legitimately that oblivious to reality?
We need a “Shut the fuck up Tito” gif.
by ufc4 on Nov 22, 2009 8:30 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Are these all Mike Tyson quotes? They're bizarre enough...
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
by themachiavellian on Nov 22, 2009 7:12 PM EST reply actions
Def.
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
by lowellthehammer on Nov 22, 2009 7:18 PM EST up reply actions
That and the "I broke my back." one. Tyson is too funny.
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
by lowellthehammer on Nov 22, 2009 7:38 PM EST up reply actions
If Carwin saved a baby from a burning building...
you’d complain that he left a bruise.
"Why am I here? Why does my mind have wings? Why do blue midgets hit me with fish?!" - The Tick
by mythbuster on Nov 22, 2009 7:16 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
People hate on Tito and Brock, BJ, Kos… Fagan hates on Carwin and GSP is probably next on the list.
10/24
Yeah, GSP in interviews is a fun and easy target.
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I bet you’d be funny if you did an interview in french.
Keep firing Assholes!
Freezing my nuts off in Canada.
It has nothing to do with his accent. He gives super boring, cliché answers to everything.
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by Mike Fagan on Nov 22, 2009 10:25 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
And I can hardly blame him
what with the way the media tends to go nuts over every little thing a celebrity says. Between that and the hundreds of interviews guys like GSP have to put up with, hearing the same questions over and over, I’d start resorting to safe canned answers too.
"I want to tell me what you see, let's go ahead and see by in the fight, what you saw, in the ring." - Tito Ortiz
by CasualMMAFan on Nov 22, 2009 10:56 PM EST up reply actions
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"Why am I here? Why does my mind have wings? Why do blue midgets hit me with fish?!" - The Tick
nice rack
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
by Anthony Pace on Nov 23, 2009 2:52 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
“Everyone knows 30-26 is the only reasonable scoredcard.”
Oh god here we go. You do realize not everyone gets your sarcasm right Fagan?
by ufc4 on Nov 22, 2009 7:18 PM EST via mobile reply actions
“I WANT TO THROW DOWN YOUR KID ON STOMP ON HIS TESTICLES”
Huh?
by ufc4 on Nov 22, 2009 7:23 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Johnson's eye poke on Koscheck
http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt220/justChanceIt/image-1.jpg
Go get that bread, Kimbo Slice. - Mike Fagan
by SouthAlaBamaRampage on Nov 22, 2009 7:35 PM EST reply actions
Here's a link for a clearer animated gif
Beware, it’s a sherdog argument thread, any brain cells you lose reading it are not my responsibility: Link
I’m not sure what happened, maybe the side of Johnson’s glove scraped his eye?
Doesn’t look like an eye poke, for sure.
To give Kos the benefit of the doubt, you could make the case the cuff or seam of Johnson’s glove scraped against his eye on the way up.
^^ this
"Why am I here? Why does my mind have wings? Why do blue midgets hit me with fish?!" - The Tick
This photo is irrefutable proof
of absolutely nothing, considering it’s too blurry to discern much of anything from it.
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
by lowellthehammer on Nov 22, 2009 7:42 PM EST up reply actions
“Back and to the left…Back and to the left…”
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
by themachiavellian on Nov 22, 2009 7:45 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
JFK? rec’d
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
by Anthony Pace on Nov 23, 2009 2:53 AM EST up reply actions
funny as it sounds, something along these lines is probably more realistic of a solution than the mittens that joe rogan wants to see invented
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They already have them in Shooto.
I don’t think they’d be too bad here. Maybe test ’em out in the WEC first. If someone dies maybe no one will notice.
I guess Koscheck really is reinventing himself as the welterweight Chuck Liddell.
by JRN on Nov 22, 2009 7:59 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Carwin
Seriously Bloody Elbow? I know these quotes are usually fairly tongue in cheek but your systematic pattern of trashing Carwin reveals a woeful lack of insight into the fight game and Carwin as a person. For lessons on how it’s done refer to Cagepotato.com.
yea the same cagepotato that said shogun had no chance at all against machida and said he did not deserve the title shot yea. HOOOOKAAYYY
by mr. gogoplata on Nov 22, 2009 8:35 PM EST up reply actions
Not that I am defending cagepotato (never been there), but...
just about everyone was saying that.
"Why am I here? Why does my mind have wings? Why do blue midgets hit me with fish?!" - The Tick
by mythbuster on Nov 22, 2009 10:04 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
longer sentences and bigger words next time. you almost convinced us.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering BROCKLESNAR; to the last I grapple with thee.
I prefer a Hemingway-esque approach to commenting. No stalling; say what you mean. Oh, that and stuff like “lulz”, “stfu”, and—my favorite—“RANDOM FIGHTER FTMFW!!!!!!!!!!1”
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
by Anthony Pace on Nov 23, 2009 2:56 AM EST up reply actions
Oh man, Random Fighter, I love that guy. Always willing to step up and take fights on short notice.
"I want to tell me what you see, let's go ahead and see by in the fight, what you saw, in the ring." - Tito Ortiz
by CasualMMAFan on Nov 23, 2009 11:45 AM EST up reply actions
If I’m not mistaken, that’s TBA’s brother.
"Why am I here? Why does my mind have wings? Why do blue midgets hit me with fish?!" - The Tick
Cousins, Parisyan-Gambyurian style
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
by Anthony Pace on Nov 23, 2009 1:00 PM EST up reply actions
I just dont get the Carwin hate
He tries to talk a little trash to hype a fight and you get on his case
He tries to give respect to Brock bc he got sick and you get on his case
What is so offensive about what he says? It is nothing different than what almost everyone else says. Everyone hypes fights. Everyone has paid their respects to Brock since his illness. What makes you think Carwin such an ass for doing so?
by HighNoon on Nov 22, 2009 10:01 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
If he was hyping the fight he would talk about shutting Lesnar’s mouth or something equally as entertaining. He doesn’t. He’s boring and self righteous.
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by Mike Fagan on Nov 22, 2009 10:30 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Fagan has never had a problem with swimming upstream before I don’t know why he’d start now.
by ufc4 on Nov 22, 2009 11:14 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
i agree totally. he’s become mr pious.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering BROCKLESNAR; to the last I grapple with thee.
WE need to do this. WE need to do that. Holier than thou by a mile. STFU.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering BROCKLESNAR; to the last I grapple with thee.
I don’t get the Carwin hate, honestly. Seems more like normal common decency than overblown hubris to me.
A fighter getting up and disrespecting his fans and employer is a douchebag move and ought to be criticized. Fans making rude and irresponsible allegations or jokes toward a fighter who is deathly ill is also a douchebag move and should be called out, even if the butt of said jokes is a douchebag himself.
"I want to tell me what you see, let's go ahead and see by in the fight, what you saw, in the ring." - Tito Ortiz
by CasualMMAFan on Nov 23, 2009 11:51 AM EST up reply actions
IMO carwin is like every low level politician. He finds a cause (lesnar is rude, we need to support lesnar) and picks up a flag for it like he’s some high priest of ethics.
Common decency = keeping your opinions to yourself about what everybody else should be doing.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering BROCKLESNAR; to the last I grapple with thee.
Wow
you must be full of hate if you hate anyone who has an opinion.
"Why am I here? Why does my mind have wings? Why do blue midgets hit me with fish?!" - The Tick
just the morally uppity ones
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering BROCKLESNAR; to the last I grapple with thee.
You only support people with immoral opinions. Got it.
"Why am I here? Why does my mind have wings? Why do blue midgets hit me with fish?!" - The Tick
you trollin me, son?
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering BROCKLESNAR; to the last I grapple with thee.
Naah
Keep giving your opinion about how people shouldn’t give their opinion.
Common decency = keeping your opinions to yourself about what everybody else should be doing.
"Why am I here? Why does my mind have wings? Why do blue midgets hit me with fish?!" - The Tick
Guess no one caught that awesome Larry David quote.
"Well... You're damned if you do, and You're damned if you don't."- Bart Simpson
by poundnground on Nov 22, 2009 11:10 PM EST via mobile reply actions 1 recs
Which one was an LD quote? And I watch Curb religiously. I’m falling off.
Ricky Hatton came closer to beating Manny Pacquiao than Marquez did to beating Floyd.
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by The Lethal Haze on Nov 23, 2009 5:04 PM EST up reply actions
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