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It's called hyping a fight. I feel like we go through this every single event.
It's called hyping a fight. I feel like we go through this every single event.
No, we don't. Not everyone says that their opponent hits like a girl. They especially don't say it after their opponent beat them to a bloody pulp in their last fight. Junior just makes himself look bad with comments like that. It draws attention but it draws the wrong type of attention. He can hype the fight without making idiotic statements.
He said it a couple months ago and it seems rather well established that it was meant as a joke. Something tells me he was told by the UFC hype team to repeat it during the countdown or whatever it's called. Either way, I don't particularly care. I'm going for Cain, and I might lay some money down, again.
He shouldn't have said it before and he shouldn't be saying it now. It's stupid. And regardless of what motivated him to do it he made the choice to get on camera and make that comment. It doesn't matter to me whether it is a joke or not. It's a stupid joke. I have less respect for him for saying it. Cain Velasquez on the other hand never made any excuses for losing to Junior the first time. I just rewatched the intro for UFC 155 and Cain says that Junior won the first fight, this is a whole other fight and he's going to win this one. That's all you really have to say.
JDS is gonna have the ref save him from the beating Cain will give him. Don't piss Cain off homie
It was a joke made on some Brazilian comedy program. It probably was stupid, but certainly not offensive. I don't really recall either fighter making any excuses, either. Overall, who really cares? This doesn't even qualify as shit talking (even if you assume he is being serious) when compared with what is said in other prize fights.
Watch the Primetime show:
Junior repeated the comment on the program and even implied that Cain got lucky the last time because he over trained. I don't respect that. Now don't get me wrong it doesn't rank among the worst comments anyone has ever made. I don't think anyone is suggesting that. What the comment does is make Junior look like a sore loser. I don't like sore losers. I think the TS is right to bring this up as an example of Junior's extreme arrogance. This isn't old news. Primetime came out today.
a soccer mom told nick diaz "i hope gsp beats your ass"
nick's reaction "this is lodi bitch!"
Even if he said it again (haven't seen the primetime yet), it's really not a big deal to me. I don't relate to when fans get all "I've lost all respect for blah blah blah" when it's something as tame as talking a little shit about technique. It's not like JDS insulted his momma.
Besides, JDS one-hit KO'd Werdum, maybe he's allowed to talk a little smack about punching power. I think Cain hits hard, but again, really not a big deal to me personally.
Maybe he is arrogant. It doesn't really trouble me one way or the other. Anything I see on these hype shows I take with a grain of salt. Now, he has made outlandish statements before regarding having a chance against a Klitschko, but I put that down to ignorance more than anything else. Or, maybe it was delusional arrogance. Prize fighting is one of the more likely places to find that.