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New interview with Bas Rutten over the weekend on Submission Radio
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Some of the topics covered
-Thoughts on Chael's Retirement
-Wanderlei's situation
-How close he came to fighting Wanderlei in Pride
-Kevin James lifting/slamming Krzysztov Soszinski without cables in here comes the boom
-Hanging out with all the Pride guys at the Hilton in Japan
-Almost killing a guy when he was bouncing at a club
-Hardest Liver Shot he's ever landed
-If he'll ever commentate a UFC event
-If he could fight anyone today who it would be
-Who wins out of Machida and Weidman
Also answered some questions from this thread: http://forums.sherdog.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2767469&highlight=
Some Quotes
On Eye pokes in MMA, if rules need to be changed and Jon Jones
“I think it should be changed, and I’m happy you brought that up because everybody says 'oh Bas Rutten says he's (Jon Jones) a dirty fighter'. No, no, no. What I said was, I answered a question 'based on the eye poking, do I think it’s dirty?' And I thought knowing Jon, how calm, cool and collected this guy is, and then holding the fingers literally two seconds there in the eyes - he can see that he’s doing that - then I say, yeah that’s not cool, because you know you're doing it. Maybe you think it’s not hard enough or something, but I guarantee you, at their gym they're not allowed to do it. And especially not with Mike Winkeljohn at the gym who lost an eye because somebody kicked him with the toenail in the eye. So he knows how bad it can be, and how bad it can be if he losses an eye and his sparring partner. I know that if I had my sparring partner doing that to me, I would give him one more chance, and then he's not my sparring partner anymore. I’m not going to help him out anymore. So that was the only comment I made on that.”
“So I’m not going to say he’s a dirty fighter, I say that’s a very creative mind, you know. And the way he comes up with spinning elbows and all that stuff, he's an unbelievable fighter. I was just talking about that fingers in the eyes. Because if this would've been the only fight, then okay. But it has been a repetitive thing now.”
"So I think he should get warned. And I think if they had warnings in the past, I think even a referee could say before the fight starts 'if you come close to his eyes, I’m gonna give you a red card right away', you know. That’s going to put a lot of pressure on a fighter and then hopefully it stops. That’s the only way I think. Because there’s nothing worse.”
On how close he was to fighting Wanderlei Silva back in Pride and his thoughts on the difficult situation Wanderlei is in at the moment
“We were pretty close I thought. What happened was, there was that show with the 91,500 people, it was Dynamo or something, I forget the name right now. Anyway, they needed an opponent for him. Now I was at the time, I didn't do any ground. But I was just training for the last six months Thai boxing, and it actually went really well, I was getting very strong. So I thought to myself, well since this is an event where you have Pride fights and you have K1 fights, I would love to fight him - because they asked me if I wanted to do it - I said I'd love to fight him, but not Pride rules, let's do K1 rules but with the Pride gloves. That’s what everybody wants to see anyway. They want to see us beating the crap out of each other in a striking war with pride gloves. And they said ok, well let's ask. And it never went through, and it wasn’t because they were scared, or 'oooh Wanderlei is scared', Wanderlei isn’t scared of anybody man, this guy fights everybody. So that was really not it, they just went with a different opponent and it didn’t happen.”
“What is happening lately to him, it’s a shame. This is going to be a tarnish on his career. I talked about it on 'Inside MMA' last Friday with Dana White, I was at the offices, at the UFC offices, and you know it’s true. With the athletic commission, once you walk out while you have to do a test, oh they're gonna make an example out of you, you know. Otherwise, when you get caught, maybe you can’t fight for six or nine months, but that’s pretty much the maximum penalty, you know. This is going to be much worse than nine months, I guarantee you that. They're going to go like 'ok, let's make sure this will never happen again', and god knows they're going to give him a couple of years. And with the age that he is right now, this could be a career killer, you know. And that’s a shame, because he's such a good guy and such a fun guy to watch, always exciting, I mean the fights he had in Pride where just the wildest, all the time you know. The Axe Murderer is the perfect name for him”
On commentating a UFC event
“Never say never, you know. Listen, they have a great commentating team, but if he for fun says one time 'hey you wanna jump in?' I'll jump in, I would love to.”
Crazy story about how he almost killed a man when bouncing at a club
“I threw the guy outside but the door was still closed, so I banged him first against the door really hard. Actually so hard that something broke off the door, and I threw him outside and he walks all the way up to our glass that we had, like special plexiglass where they can't break it. And he looked right over at me and he did the thumb slice over the throat like he was going to kill me. Now these guys are serious guys, you know. And then at that moment when I know that they don’t have a weapon on them, I rather go out there, than (if) I’m gonna wait till the go to the car, or wait in the car somewhere around the corner, and then I’m done working and suddenly they show up and something happens. So that I took very serious. So I went outside right away because I wanted to take care of the problem right then. And it happened to be that he was a southpaw, and he loaded his punch up, I guess he was really angry. So before he loaded it up I went and kicked him in the head, and he was down. And it was a scary moment, one of those moments where I say, it could have made my life a completely different life, because he was sitting on his knees and he was really messed up, his lip was already hanging down, and then I wanted to kick him in the head, because I was still thinking about the death threat he made. So I kicked him full in the head, but he fell backwards. He was like out. So I kicked a hole in the air so to say, and that’s when I realized I was wearing steel-toed shoes. I go 'oooph', if that would have connected, I would have killed the guy. And you know, then I probably would have never been here. I wouldn’t have been a fighter, I would have been in jail in Holland you know?”
Most Awkward Date
"I go with my wife, who is now my wife, we've been 22 years together - this is when I fought in Japan for like a year or something, or less, I think six or seven months - we go to Amsterdam. Now believe it or not, I was never had been at the Red Light district before, and she was never there either. So we said we're gonna check it out, because it’s a real fun place, it’s a safe place, because that’s where the tourism goes, they make sure that there's a lot of cops and it’s fun to watch because you see these ladies behind the windows, you know. And then you can knock on the door and you can go in there and they close the curtain and you can do your business, that’s how it works there. So I’m walking there with her, and this is the god honest truth, and these girls, like multiple, start knocking on the windows saying 'hey Bas! How are you doing?' and that was pretty awkward, and my wife looks at me, I go 'I swear I have never been here before'. And what happened was, that one of their, well there's not great way to say this, pimps, fought with me on the second Pancrase show. And because he was a shoot fighter as well from Amsterdam, and he fought as well, and his name was Yolp and he passed away, which is too bad because he was a really good guy. But anyway, he fought there, brought back the magazines with him in there, but because I fought him I was in the magazines as well and he was talking about me, so these girls recognised me from the pictures in the magazine, and that's why they started knocking on the windows.”
If he could pick anyone in MMA to fight from these days who would it be
“Well first of all I would fight at 205, so I would have a big problem with freakin Jon Jones, because he's a great wrestler and he really knows how to use his distance, and striking-wise you gotta fight this guy inside. But once your inside, he is really good with wrestling, and let’s face it my wrestling always sucked because I was, on the ground I could defend myself. But nowadays, once you get down and with his length, you know so, yeah that would have been a problem. Still if I would fight, people always say 'well who would win?', and I say I would win, you know. I would always say I would win. I think it’s the dumbest thing for a fighter to say 'ah, I don't know if I could really win that fight'. I think you have to be 100% with your mind going into the fight, that you're going to win the fight. There cannot be any doubts, you know. And just because of that, that's why I say I’m probably going to win the fight. But it would be a tough one."
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Some of the topics covered
-Thoughts on Chael's Retirement
-Wanderlei's situation
-How close he came to fighting Wanderlei in Pride
-Kevin James lifting/slamming Krzysztov Soszinski without cables in here comes the boom
-Hanging out with all the Pride guys at the Hilton in Japan
-Almost killing a guy when he was bouncing at a club
-Hardest Liver Shot he's ever landed
-If he'll ever commentate a UFC event
-If he could fight anyone today who it would be
-Who wins out of Machida and Weidman
Also answered some questions from this thread: http://forums.sherdog.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2767469&highlight=
Some Quotes
On Eye pokes in MMA, if rules need to be changed and Jon Jones
“I think it should be changed, and I’m happy you brought that up because everybody says 'oh Bas Rutten says he's (Jon Jones) a dirty fighter'. No, no, no. What I said was, I answered a question 'based on the eye poking, do I think it’s dirty?' And I thought knowing Jon, how calm, cool and collected this guy is, and then holding the fingers literally two seconds there in the eyes - he can see that he’s doing that - then I say, yeah that’s not cool, because you know you're doing it. Maybe you think it’s not hard enough or something, but I guarantee you, at their gym they're not allowed to do it. And especially not with Mike Winkeljohn at the gym who lost an eye because somebody kicked him with the toenail in the eye. So he knows how bad it can be, and how bad it can be if he losses an eye and his sparring partner. I know that if I had my sparring partner doing that to me, I would give him one more chance, and then he's not my sparring partner anymore. I’m not going to help him out anymore. So that was the only comment I made on that.”
“So I’m not going to say he’s a dirty fighter, I say that’s a very creative mind, you know. And the way he comes up with spinning elbows and all that stuff, he's an unbelievable fighter. I was just talking about that fingers in the eyes. Because if this would've been the only fight, then okay. But it has been a repetitive thing now.”
"So I think he should get warned. And I think if they had warnings in the past, I think even a referee could say before the fight starts 'if you come close to his eyes, I’m gonna give you a red card right away', you know. That’s going to put a lot of pressure on a fighter and then hopefully it stops. That’s the only way I think. Because there’s nothing worse.”
On how close he was to fighting Wanderlei Silva back in Pride and his thoughts on the difficult situation Wanderlei is in at the moment
“We were pretty close I thought. What happened was, there was that show with the 91,500 people, it was Dynamo or something, I forget the name right now. Anyway, they needed an opponent for him. Now I was at the time, I didn't do any ground. But I was just training for the last six months Thai boxing, and it actually went really well, I was getting very strong. So I thought to myself, well since this is an event where you have Pride fights and you have K1 fights, I would love to fight him - because they asked me if I wanted to do it - I said I'd love to fight him, but not Pride rules, let's do K1 rules but with the Pride gloves. That’s what everybody wants to see anyway. They want to see us beating the crap out of each other in a striking war with pride gloves. And they said ok, well let's ask. And it never went through, and it wasn’t because they were scared, or 'oooh Wanderlei is scared', Wanderlei isn’t scared of anybody man, this guy fights everybody. So that was really not it, they just went with a different opponent and it didn’t happen.”
“What is happening lately to him, it’s a shame. This is going to be a tarnish on his career. I talked about it on 'Inside MMA' last Friday with Dana White, I was at the offices, at the UFC offices, and you know it’s true. With the athletic commission, once you walk out while you have to do a test, oh they're gonna make an example out of you, you know. Otherwise, when you get caught, maybe you can’t fight for six or nine months, but that’s pretty much the maximum penalty, you know. This is going to be much worse than nine months, I guarantee you that. They're going to go like 'ok, let's make sure this will never happen again', and god knows they're going to give him a couple of years. And with the age that he is right now, this could be a career killer, you know. And that’s a shame, because he's such a good guy and such a fun guy to watch, always exciting, I mean the fights he had in Pride where just the wildest, all the time you know. The Axe Murderer is the perfect name for him”
On commentating a UFC event
“Never say never, you know. Listen, they have a great commentating team, but if he for fun says one time 'hey you wanna jump in?' I'll jump in, I would love to.”
Crazy story about how he almost killed a man when bouncing at a club
“I threw the guy outside but the door was still closed, so I banged him first against the door really hard. Actually so hard that something broke off the door, and I threw him outside and he walks all the way up to our glass that we had, like special plexiglass where they can't break it. And he looked right over at me and he did the thumb slice over the throat like he was going to kill me. Now these guys are serious guys, you know. And then at that moment when I know that they don’t have a weapon on them, I rather go out there, than (if) I’m gonna wait till the go to the car, or wait in the car somewhere around the corner, and then I’m done working and suddenly they show up and something happens. So that I took very serious. So I went outside right away because I wanted to take care of the problem right then. And it happened to be that he was a southpaw, and he loaded his punch up, I guess he was really angry. So before he loaded it up I went and kicked him in the head, and he was down. And it was a scary moment, one of those moments where I say, it could have made my life a completely different life, because he was sitting on his knees and he was really messed up, his lip was already hanging down, and then I wanted to kick him in the head, because I was still thinking about the death threat he made. So I kicked him full in the head, but he fell backwards. He was like out. So I kicked a hole in the air so to say, and that’s when I realized I was wearing steel-toed shoes. I go 'oooph', if that would have connected, I would have killed the guy. And you know, then I probably would have never been here. I wouldn’t have been a fighter, I would have been in jail in Holland you know?”
Most Awkward Date
"I go with my wife, who is now my wife, we've been 22 years together - this is when I fought in Japan for like a year or something, or less, I think six or seven months - we go to Amsterdam. Now believe it or not, I was never had been at the Red Light district before, and she was never there either. So we said we're gonna check it out, because it’s a real fun place, it’s a safe place, because that’s where the tourism goes, they make sure that there's a lot of cops and it’s fun to watch because you see these ladies behind the windows, you know. And then you can knock on the door and you can go in there and they close the curtain and you can do your business, that’s how it works there. So I’m walking there with her, and this is the god honest truth, and these girls, like multiple, start knocking on the windows saying 'hey Bas! How are you doing?' and that was pretty awkward, and my wife looks at me, I go 'I swear I have never been here before'. And what happened was, that one of their, well there's not great way to say this, pimps, fought with me on the second Pancrase show. And because he was a shoot fighter as well from Amsterdam, and he fought as well, and his name was Yolp and he passed away, which is too bad because he was a really good guy. But anyway, he fought there, brought back the magazines with him in there, but because I fought him I was in the magazines as well and he was talking about me, so these girls recognised me from the pictures in the magazine, and that's why they started knocking on the windows.”
If he could pick anyone in MMA to fight from these days who would it be
“Well first of all I would fight at 205, so I would have a big problem with freakin Jon Jones, because he's a great wrestler and he really knows how to use his distance, and striking-wise you gotta fight this guy inside. But once your inside, he is really good with wrestling, and let’s face it my wrestling always sucked because I was, on the ground I could defend myself. But nowadays, once you get down and with his length, you know so, yeah that would have been a problem. Still if I would fight, people always say 'well who would win?', and I say I would win, you know. I would always say I would win. I think it’s the dumbest thing for a fighter to say 'ah, I don't know if I could really win that fight'. I think you have to be 100% with your mind going into the fight, that you're going to win the fight. There cannot be any doubts, you know. And just because of that, that's why I say I’m probably going to win the fight. But it would be a tough one."
