{"id":269822,"date":"2018-02-10T13:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T21:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=269822"},"modified":"2018-02-10T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T21:31:53","slug":"video-matt-brown-wants-let-know-hes-f-cking-hungrier-hes-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-matt-brown-wants-let-know-hes-f-cking-hungrier-hes-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Matt Brown Wants to Let You Know He&#8217;s &#8216;F-cking Hungrier Than He&#8217;s Ever Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ogb-ix9uuHk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Not too long ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/matt-brown\/diego-sanchez-double-retirement-ufc-norfolk-fight-night-120\/\">Matt Brown was about to call it quits<\/a>. The questions that plagued his career coupled with some ups and downs seemed overwhelming. No matter the fighter\u00a0\u2014 from Georges St-Pierre or a guy fighting in the regionals\u00a0\u2014 there comes a time where you have to ask yourself if you&#8217;re going to keep doing it. When Matt Brown asked himself that question and searched real hard, he found clarity. Hell yeah, he&#8217;ll keep doing it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI just started kind of questioning, \u2018What am I doing?\u2019 The first thing I went through was, \u2018How do I not make it happen again?\u2019\u00a0That gets very exhausting when you just think of, \u2018How? How? How?\u2019 Right? And I think through the Diego camp \u2013 because I announced retirement very early in the camp, like 12 weeks out \u2013 through the camp, everything went so well. I focused more on my own mind, and I started getting back into the, \u2018Why?\u2019, and I started bringing clarity to that side of things.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honored to have been a guest today on the best podcast ever with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joerogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@joerogan<\/a> hope you guys are able to listen and enjoy! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bI5UJr8KIo\">pic.twitter.com\/bI5UJr8KIo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Brown (@IamTheImmortal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IamTheImmortal\/status\/961402952471711745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNow I know why I\u2019m doing what I\u2019m doing. I feel much more comfortable, and now, it doesn\u2019t matter on the performance anymore. Now, it\u2019s about truly going out there and performing the best that I can.\u00a0To be honest, I think I\u2019m f-cking hungrier than I ever was. It just wasn\u2019t clear. Again, it was all about the, \u2018How?\u2019 I think I was hyper-focused on that, like \u2018How do I get stronger?\u2019 \u2018How do I get faster?\u2019 \u2018How do I throw a better punch?\u2019 It\u2019s just constant \u2018Hows\u2019, and you forget, like, \u2018Why are you doing this, anyway?\u2019\u201d<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2018\/2\/10\/16997804\/ufc-matt-brown-retirement-return-carlos-condit-welterweight-mma-news\">Matt Brown speaking on the Joe Rogan MMA Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His opponent is no stranger to the feeling either. After a loss to Demian Maia, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-carlos-condit-may-retire-mma-love-coffee\/\">Carlos Condit was ready to put the gloves in the middle of the Octagon<\/a> and never come back. He was content to work on his coffee business and see where his life went from there. Yet, here they both are booked to fight each other in a fan-favorite, Fight of the Night contender at UFC Glendale. You&#8217;ll want to tune in on April 14th and soak it all in because we&#8217;re going to miss warriors like Matt Brown and Carlos Condit when they finally do leave us.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 2\/10\/2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, Matt Brown was about to call it quits. The questions that plagued his career coupled with some ups and downs seemed overwhelming. No matter the fighter\u00a0\u2014 from Georges St-Pierre or a guy fighting in the regionals\u00a0\u2014 there comes a time where you have to ask yourself if you&#8217;re going to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54442,"featured_media":106572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10120,10222,2682],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VIDEO | Matt Brown Wants to Let You Know He&#039;s &#039;F-cking Hungrier Than He&#039;s Ever Been | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-matt-brown-wants-let-know-hes-f-cking-hungrier-hes-ever\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VIDEO | Matt Brown Wants to Let You Know He&#039;s &#039;F-cking Hungrier Than He&#039;s Ever Been | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Not too long ago, Matt Brown was about to call it quits. 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