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On dropping his nickname:
On losing to Shogun:
But along with getting those bearings back, he made a choice to dump the “Beastin’ 25/8” nickname that has been one of the most derided nom de plumes in MMA history.
People don’t dig on his nickname, which came from his brother, and he knows it. So “Beastin’ 25/8” will remain his brand. But his nickname game will start fresh. Just what it is, though, remains a secret. All he’ll say is it came from Frankie Edgar.
“Frankie gave me a new nickname,” he said. “It made sense. It’s the same thing, just a different way to say it. Coming from a guy like Frankie, as a mentor, I look up to him so much – I had to take it.”
On losing to Shogun:
“For a moment, I wanted to walk away from it,” Anderson said. “If they’re saying the judges are cheating me, and that dictates my career, do I really want to depend on that? Do I want to make money depending on what someone else says? I want to do something where I can control it. If I didn’t get the finish but I did enough to win, and everybody thinks I was cheated, is this serious? Is this something I want to do for the rest of my life? It really hurt me for a while."
“For a while, I stayed home – for a month and a half, two months. I was at my parents’ house. My parents were like, ‘When are you going back to training?’ I had to get my bearings back.”