{"id":67098,"date":"2013-08-21T11:55:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T18:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=67098"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:52:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:52:54","slug":"sonnen-on-the-art-of-the-interview-if-you-want-a-fight-ask-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/sonnen-on-the-art-of-the-interview-if-you-want-a-fight-ask-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnen On The Art Of The Interview: ‘If you want a fight, ask for it’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“You’ve got to understand everybody comes from Billy Graham. So I think my answer was going to be Len Denton, but I’m sure if Len told the truth, he got inspired by Billy too. Billy Graham actually put a Facebook post out. I had paid homage to him after a fight some time ago, and he appreciated that. Because he appreciated it, I paid him homage again tonight.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Anderson was there, so I got a reaction. That’s really what you’re after. You want to evoke some type of emotion, especially if you’re calling a guy out. That’s the whole point. You want him to respond. That’s how you get a fight going. It’s no different than when you’re kids in school. If one guy says something to another guy and the other guy just sits there, then well, you kind of feel bad for the guy. I don’t want to see a guy get bullied. But if the other guy goes, \u2018Oh, really? You talking to me?’ Well, now you’ve got something to watch. That rule applies here in professional fighting too. It’s the same rule as from the playground.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Sometimes I feel like a big brother to these guys that\u2019s got to let them know we\u2019re in the fight business. If you want a fight, ask for a fight.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s got to be from the heart and it\u2019s got to be real. I would never manufacture conflict. That\u2019s a very important statement. When I talk about big brothering guys, that\u2019s probably lesson number one: Do not hype a fight. If you have an issue, if you have a reason and it\u2019s sincere, feel free to speak about it. Do not make it up and don\u2019t just cut something for entertainment.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I really just have one rule, and that is, if you don\u2019t mean it, don\u2019t say it. There is an entertainment aspect for that, but that\u2019s not what we do here and I don\u2019t want to sell anybody anything that isn\u2019t real. I\u2019ve bought it. I bought Mike Tyson versus Lennox Lewis and listened to Tyson apologize afterwards, say he didn\u2019t mean it. I go, \u2018Well, than give me my money back. You\u2019ve got to return my money. That was a lie. I bought this on a lie.\u2019 I watched Josh Koscheck and [Georges] St. Pierre, and Josh Koscheck grabbed the mic and said [he] didn\u2019t mean it. Josh, you\u2019re a liar then. There\u2019s 11,000 fans that bought a ticket because they thought that they were going to see a dispute settled. \u2026 It bothers me. It\u2019s insincere. I won\u2019t participate in it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

– Chael Sonnen via sherdog.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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