{"id":120549,"date":"2014-11-25T13:11:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T21:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=120549"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:07:33","slug":"rich-franklin-mentally-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/rich-franklin-mentally-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich Franklin &#8211; &#8216;I Mentally Broke&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YCxFTJG0bFU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;I always talk about a fight that most people don&#8217;t bring up, it&#8217;s when I fought Travis Lutter in Montreal. Basically in the fight I had all the answers I needed (to win) but it was just failed execution at every point. I ended up in the worst possible scenario that I could have been in. This fight was probably my worst winning performance. 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