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12-31-2009 08:06 PM:
Laying down some smack before and even during a match has always had a place for some in fighting. Some fighters are defeated before they step in the cage. Prime example was Cheick Kongo, who completely lost his gameplan before the fight started against Frank Mir. Now talking trash during the fight is a completely different. It's high reward but even higher risk. It worked fine for Rashad Evans fights against Forrest Griffin, Tom Murphy, Mike Whitehead and Michael Bisping. The jabbering blew up in Evans' face in May. He kept talking, was blasted by Lyoto Machida and ended up looking like this:
Cagewriter asked Evans if he learned a lesson:
"It can hurt you. An Uncle used to say, 'Hey boy, you lose your head, your *** can go with it.' You gotta keep your head on."
Evans has said on many occasions he didn't respect the power and speed of Machida and paid for chattering in the Octagon. He joked that at least he won over some fans with the knockout loss:
"You gotta lose the way you win. That way the dude on the couch can say, 'see, that's what that [expletive] guy [deserved]. I knew it."
All Evans can do now is have fun with what happened.
"I'll give up a good knockout loss because there's been so many people probably sitting on the coach saying 'I just hope he gets knocked out, when he do that!' And finally it happened."
Evans got it from fans and friends, saying some people have asked him to autograph the KO photo. Fellow fighter Daniel Cormier uses the photo on his phone as the alert when Evans calls. Even his family got in on the action. A nephew told him Machida was his favorite fighter now.
It wasn't a joking matter with his trainer Greg Jackson. Jackson told Cagewriter that Evans behavior was actually the beginning of a big problem with his fighters talking way too much trash and paying for it. Guys like James McSweeney, Leonard Garcia and Donald Cerrone were all straying from gameplans by getting too emotional.
Evans fights the very dangerous Thiago Silva on Saturday in the main event. The Brazilian probably caught Evans' attention by destroying his teammate Keith Jardine at UFC 102.
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Cagewriter is an MMA blog edited by Steve Cofield.
Laying down some smack before and even during a match has always had a place for some in fighting. Some fighters are defeated before they step in the cage. Prime example was Cheick Kongo, who completely lost his gameplan before the fight started against Frank Mir. Now talking trash during the fight is a completely different. It's high reward but even higher risk. It worked fine for Rashad Evans fights against Forrest Griffin, Tom Murphy, Mike Whitehead and Michael Bisping. The jabbering blew up in Evans' face in May. He kept talking, was blasted by Lyoto Machida and ended up looking like this:
Cagewriter asked Evans if he learned a lesson:
"It can hurt you. An Uncle used to say, 'Hey boy, you lose your head, your *** can go with it.' You gotta keep your head on."
Evans has said on many occasions he didn't respect the power and speed of Machida and paid for chattering in the Octagon. He joked that at least he won over some fans with the knockout loss:
"You gotta lose the way you win. That way the dude on the couch can say, 'see, that's what that [expletive] guy [deserved]. I knew it."
All Evans can do now is have fun with what happened.
"I'll give up a good knockout loss because there's been so many people probably sitting on the coach saying 'I just hope he gets knocked out, when he do that!' And finally it happened."
Evans got it from fans and friends, saying some people have asked him to autograph the KO photo. Fellow fighter Daniel Cormier uses the photo on his phone as the alert when Evans calls. Even his family got in on the action. A nephew told him Machida was his favorite fighter now.
It wasn't a joking matter with his trainer Greg Jackson. Jackson told Cagewriter that Evans behavior was actually the beginning of a big problem with his fighters talking way too much trash and paying for it. Guys like James McSweeney, Leonard Garcia and Donald Cerrone were all straying from gameplans by getting too emotional.
Evans fights the very dangerous Thiago Silva on Saturday in the main event. The Brazilian probably caught Evans' attention by destroying his teammate Keith Jardine at UFC 102.
More...
Yahoo! Sports.
Cagewriter is an MMA blog edited by Steve Cofield.
