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Came across the article by Mike Bohn published today at RS and wanted to pass it along, covers his recent troubles, his upbringing, Cormier and includes a photo gallery from his current camp.
http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/...tar-on-his-greatest-opponent-himself-20160407
Things in the article that stood out to me:
"I was able to justify it all in my head. I was a father going to church, a family man, but I was a total party boy, the guy who walked up to the bar and ordered 20 shots of Patrón for total strangers standing around me," he explains. "Then there's this third guy who was an elite-level athlete that took sports extremely serious. These three sides of me became who I was, and the world really didn't know. I wasn't really fake, I was just me, but there were things that conflicted with each other. I had different sides."
Def speaks to the "fake persona" he's been accused of putting on.
"I'm not officially team captain, but to a lot of guys in here, I'm their captain. They see me doing the right things and working my ass off," he says. "A lot of the guys used to see me and envy the fact I could party and still win. I knew the guys who had a little hate in their blood, like, 'This motherfucker got everything I want as a fighter, and he's coming to practice high and shit.' Those guys now, they got nothing to say. It's not that they hated me; they hated what I got away with."
Immediately thought back to Arlovski's comments about Jon not being there to train as much as others.
http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/...tar-on-his-greatest-opponent-himself-20160407
Things in the article that stood out to me:
"I was able to justify it all in my head. I was a father going to church, a family man, but I was a total party boy, the guy who walked up to the bar and ordered 20 shots of Patrón for total strangers standing around me," he explains. "Then there's this third guy who was an elite-level athlete that took sports extremely serious. These three sides of me became who I was, and the world really didn't know. I wasn't really fake, I was just me, but there were things that conflicted with each other. I had different sides."
Def speaks to the "fake persona" he's been accused of putting on.
"I'm not officially team captain, but to a lot of guys in here, I'm their captain. They see me doing the right things and working my ass off," he says. "A lot of the guys used to see me and envy the fact I could party and still win. I knew the guys who had a little hate in their blood, like, 'This motherfucker got everything I want as a fighter, and he's coming to practice high and shit.' Those guys now, they got nothing to say. It's not that they hated me; they hated what I got away with."
Immediately thought back to Arlovski's comments about Jon not being there to train as much as others.
