{"id":115324,"date":"2014-10-15T05:03:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T12:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=115324"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:17:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:17:11","slug":"lorenzo-fertitta-i-have-never-seen-anderson-silva-so-motivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/lorenzo-fertitta-i-have-never-seen-anderson-silva-so-motivated\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorenzo Fertitta: &#8216;I have never seen Anderson Silva so motivated&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NIDFAubIyEc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;I was very excited to see what Anderson&#8217;s response was going to be. We purposefully let Anderson go off after his injury. Because it was so significant an injury, we didn&#8217;t want to bother him too much. 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