(Video courtesy Fight!Magazine)
If a reporter were to ask Dana White who he was picking to win from an upcoming Strikeforce card, the UFC president would likely answer with something to the effect of, "Are you retarded? I don’t fucking watch Strikeforce. That show is garbage," before walking away in disgust.
It’s sad when pride and despising the competition gets in the way of being a fan of decent match-ups and it becomes the norm for reporters to pretend that other competing organizations don’t exist when talking to promoters.
Fight! Magazine’s Danny Acosta defied convention at the release party for the EA Sports MMA game this week and asked Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker, commentator Frank Shamrock and fighters Dan Henderson and Fedor Emelianenko for their picks for UFC 121 on Saturday night.
Shamrock came off like his usual arrogant self, proclaiming that he won’t watch Jake Shields‘ UFC debut and that he hopes Kampmann kills him, but the rest of the Strikeforce crew give thoughtful insight into which fighters and why they will win the main and co-main events of the card.
Somehow I doubt that Dana doesn’t watch any shows produced by the competition. That’s like working for Coke and saying you’ll never try Pepsi because it sucks. You have to see what the competition is doing, no matter how much more poorly they’re doing it.
Points to Fedor for the bit of intentional comedy at the end of the video when asked to pick a winner between Cain and Brock.
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commentsIt looks like it's still there without all it's superstar names on the website. It might be worth noting that when it was the SUPA STAR! gym, it started at something like $250/mo to train there. Even worse than the god damned Beverly Hills Gracie gym
Randy, Bas, Fedor. Winners, all of 'em.
It's called knowledge and love of the sport as a whole, son (something Frank "Catcher" Shamrock clearly lacks)!
And am I the only one who thinks Henderson sounds like Grimace from McDonald's?
"Where's the coke!? Duuuh, where are the shakes!?"
2nd: I think Fedor says in Russian, "I'm afraid of them both." Seriously.
Bas, gotta love him.
Fedor. I would not be too surprised if he had no idea who Lesnar or Velasquez are. "yeah, I've seen them fight. It will be good."
The rest of the time I fucking LOVE the guy.
Moving on to the others, Bas is amazing and I wish he could commentate on UFC fights (we actually use his exercise tape in our Muay Thai class, it's great haha.), Shamrock is a fag, as is Coker. I am indifferent to Henderson.
Did u see his latest interview with Ariel Helwani ? He'd look off at nothing and giggle to himself like gollum every time he was asked a relevant question.
He says he is the biggest fan of MMA out there, but only watches fights on showtime? Even Ariel was like .. say waaa?
Braced faced irrelevant has been.
BAS and Fedor are the SHIT!
Shamrocks retirement was the biggest joke I've ever seen.
Hendo and his stupid pink hat=FAIL
Bas Rutten=Badass as always.
That being said ever since Frank retired I've been really enjoying his truthful biased opinion on shit.
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