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TANK ABBOTT
Part 6
Break Out the Duct Tape –
Tank is Back!
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photography: Joshua Hedges
photos © Zuffa
The original Huntington Beach Bad Boy is definitely back – and kicking. On the eve of Mother’s Day, and before a packed house at Honolulu’s Blaisdell Arena, David "Tank" Abbott took just 1.22 to knock out Wesley "Cabbage" Correira with one of his huge right punches that he had previously described as a 600-lb sledgehammer. For the first half of this interview, David is at his hotel in Honolulu, sitting in a bar with his buddy, "Bird Dog", the day after the Correira fight. "I f**ked Cabbage right up. It wasn’t a KO, it was a TKO: a Tank Knock Out…Hold on one second… I’ve got to take a sip of my drink, and my right hand is hurting…Alright, I’m back. No, I f**ked that guy up the way he should have been knocked out the first time. I don’t know, because I haven’t seen it (the video), but people I’ve been talking with have said it’s one of the best knockouts they’ve seen in a long time," says Abbott. Billy Hull of the Honolulu Star Bulletin wrote the witty headline "Tank Shreds Cabbage", and stated that the crowd, which was "unanimously in the corner of local boy Correira when the fight started, was stunned after Abbott left Correira in a heap in the ring." Interestingly, MMA fans got to see Tank unloading his newly developed Thai-kick techniques for the first time – well, the first time at a sanctioned fight, that is. I was kicking, by the way. They were response kicks. I was getting kicked and I kicked him back. Inside, I was laughing my arse off. I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is goddam ludicrous. He’s f**kin’ kickin’ me and I’m kicking him back.’ It was pretty funny, actually. It was good to be back fighting like I used to be. "I don’t know what type of kicks they were," laughs Tank. "They were just kicks. I saw some pictures and I’m kicking him right across his midsection. I didn’t think I could get my leg that high. It actually looked like I was doing some damage to him. Of course, my head’s not in the photo, but you can tell it’s me. I kept him on his toes. "It’s funny because I broke my hand, but I woke up the next day and my shins were hurting. I thought, ‘What the f**k?’ So I must have been kicking him pretty hard. My shins hurt more than my broken hand." Cabbage has a reputation for leaning against the fence and letting his opponents wear themselves out a la Mohammed Ali’s rope-a-dope strategy. But Abbott would have none of this. "He tried to, but I wasn’t going to go there. I knew that if I peppered him enough, he would open up. And that’s exactly what happened. I wasn’t going to crowd him and get him up where he could beat on me or anything. I got over that. He tumbled into a very, very hard right. I was kinda suckering him, trying to get him to come at me. And when he came in, I just f**kin’ drilled him. He walked right into it. And from what I heard, he was picked up clean from his position and flew backwards about a foot, and landed on his arse." David says he doesn’t regard the victory as being a revenge bout, but rather as just what should have happened when they originally fought, before the fight was stopped due to a cut over Tank’s right eye in UFC 45. He says it was ironic his defeat of Cabbage occurred on the Mother’s Day weekend, and he dedicated the victory to his own mother who had passed away. After the victory, Abbott stated: "This is just the beginning. You know what, man? It’s great to feel f**kin’ normal again." In the past, Tank has described his punches as 600-pound sledgehammers, but says the punch that caught Cabbage was more like a freight train. "I suckered him into coming in at me. I was jabbing him, and hitting him with hooks. Finally he decided to come in on me. He ran into a right…Hold on, I’ve got to take another sip…My right hand is like a goddamed sausage." A few days after defeating Cabbage, Tank returned home and it was confirmed his right hand was broken. He is sitting at a bar in Huntington Beach when the interview continues.
David, how is your hand? "It was a real clean break. They don’t have to set it. They don’t have to do anything. The doctor said to come back in four weeks and he’ll look at it again. So I say two weeks and it should be fine." Was Cabbage walking around the day after the fight? "Oh, I think that I might have retired him. I certainly didn’t see him. And I don’t know if they were ribbing me or not, but they said he was out having a cocktail. I obviously didn’t see him, and I said, ‘Hey man, seriously, you should tell him that he shouldn’t drink.’ No, really, he’ll end up dead." Is Kimo next on your list, or just whoever? "I would like to beat him up, but you never know how this business works." In the background, a girl says something to Tank. "I’ll rub you down later," he tells her, and then returns to the interview. "I was just getting a cheap thrill. There’s a waitress here and I had to indulge. "Hey, here’s something you can put in your article. Do you get the Discovery Channel down there in Australia?" Yes. "Well, Dog Chapman is a 5-foot-7 bounty hunter who wears 4-inch heels on his cowboy boots, and some of his stooges wanted their photo taken with me in Hawaii, so they could be seen with someone from the real world. "You may also want to put in there: I party quite a bit and I have no secrets, so when I’m drunk, I’ll tell you the same thing sober. That’s like the big deal with professional wrestling – they get you all drunk and then they try to pick your mind. I look right at you and go, ‘I don’t like, you motherf**ker, and I’ll tell you that tomorrow when I’m sober. So what the f**k do you want to hear?’ ‘Um, ah, ah…’ Do you know what I mean? I’m not too good at keeping secrets either. So don’t tell me anything I shouldn’t tell anybody else." When you knocked out Cabbage in 1.22, you did what Andrei Arlovski wasn’t able to do. How do you feel about that? "Well, it would help if I knew who Andrei Arlovski was." Does that go in the article? "Absolutely. Who’s that?" He’s going to be fighting Justin Eilers at UFC 53. Would you like to take on those guys? "Once again, who’s that?" When will the fans see you again at UFC? "Who knows what’s coming next? I have no idea. I was going to say something weird, but I better not. Who knows? You just never know." What are you doing at the moment? "I’m sitting here at Huntington Beach, getting drunk and looking at the pier. I’m going to go now and get me an ugly woman."
TANK ABBOTT Part 7
The Torture Never Stops
© Marc Wickert
www.knucklepit.com
All photos copyright 2004 Zuffa LLC
Photography by Joshua Hedges After the phone buzzes a couple of times, someone picks it up and horrible, deep-throated moans can be heard in the background. I wonder if I’ve rung the wrong number – possibly an S & M parlour by mistake. Then a stoic voice answers, "Hello." They are obviously oblivious to the tortured screams echoing through the receiver. Now I’m convinced it’s Gomez Addams on the other end. This is by no means a normal interview, unless of course you’re calling the world’s most famous street fighter, David "Tank" Abbott. Then somehow everything seems to fit into place. After being questioned about the commotion, Tank casually replies: "Oh, I’m just watching my buddy getting cut up right now." The conversation is punctuated by more agonising screams. "It’s Eddie. He’s got a few f**king boils or something. My buddy’s playing doctor on him, lancing him and squeezing all the shit out of him." At first it appears that Tank is starting to see the funny side to the situation, before it becomes more apparent that he is actually enjoying Eddie's pain and discomfort. No, the Eddie in question - and in excruciating pain - is not Eddie Munster, but Eddie Ruiz – one of the toughest fighters to set foot in the Octagon. Ruiz treated MMA fans to an incredibly gutsy battle when he took on Yves Edwards at UFC 43: Meltdown. Despite Tank previously telling UFC, "Eagles may land on the same mountain but they don’t flock together - eagles fly alone," Ruiz has shown what it takes to train and remain with Abbott. When asking Tank if now is a good time to conduct the interview, he replies that it is fine, and that we’d better get stuck into it because he has some people coming over to train with him. Although breaking his hand while knocking out Cabbage in Hawaii a few months ago, Abbott says his fist is fit to fight. "It’s one-hundred percent. There’s nothing wrong with it." Tank has just signed a contract to go to war in PRIDE’s Final Conflict 2005, at Saitama Super Arena in Japan on August 28. This will be his first bout in PRIDE FC, and a new challenge for the man who lives by the motto, "Any time, any place." So, David, your hand will be right to go for Japan? "Oh, absolutely." What made you take on the PRIDE fight? "Just because that’s what I do, man. I’m here to fight for my life. That’s my purpose in life, and as long as there’s fighting, there’ll be me." But you haven’t fought in PRIDE before? "No. I haven’t fought in PRIDE before, and I’m looking forward to it." Do you know who you are going to be fighting? You said before that it could be any one of four Japanese guys. "I have no idea yet, but I don’t care who it is." You’ve only signed for one fight, are you watching your horizons there? "Well, I haven’t really thought about it that much. I just said I’ll try them for one fight. That’s all I want to do and we can talk later if they want to do more. I don’t want to get locked into anything, but I’ll be around." Last time you fought a Japanese opponent, it was for UFC’s Ultimate Japan against Youji Anjo, and he put up a pretty good fight. They’re spirited warriors over there, aren’t they? "Yeah, well the Japanese have big hearts, and so do I. It will be a good show." Do you have a strategy for the fight? "No, I don’t have a strategy really. I’ll be ready and that’s all that matters." So you’re not going to take everyone by surprise and win by rear-naked choke, are you? "Ah, you never know. Anything’s possible. Does that mean I’ll be naked, or what?" How has your preparation been going so far? "It’s been going pretty good: I’ve already got a week under my belt, and it’s fair to middling. I’m doing alright." You’ll be ready for August 28 then? "Well, let’s put it this way: I went 18 minutes one time when I couldn’t even run two miles, so you don’t have to be in that great a shape to go for 15 or 20 minutes. And that was without rounds. I’ll be ready." Have you been training for the roped ring as opposed to the cage? "Not as of yet. It’s all fighting anyway, whether it’s a cage or a ring. It’s all the same thing. It doesn’t bother me. It’s like fighting in a bar or in the street: You just have to adapt."
You said before the Cabbage fight that you were full-on back. And it’s in your voice: You’re totally determined, aren’t you? "Hindsight is 20-20. Looking back at it, I really didn’t want to be fighting back then. I didn’t know that at the time…I just wasn’t into it… But it’s a completely different me right now. So I definitely want to fight, and I’ll definitely be there to fight – as opposed to being a zombie like before." After you knocked out Cabbage you returned to Hawaii; was that for some R & R? "No, it was strictly to get drunk as a skunk. And I achieved my objective." Okay. And will UFC be watching how you go in this upcoming fight? "I have no idea what those guys watch or do. I haven’t the foggiest. They know my phone number and I’m on good terms with them. I don’t have anything bad to say about them." From the response at knucklepit.com, you are one of the most popular fighters out there. A girl just sent an email saying you are her favourite fighter. Do you have anything to say to her? "Tell her I’ll be her number-one lover if I ever meet her." David, is there anything you’d like to add to this article? "Just check out the PRIDE fight. You’ll see me getting down."
DAVID
"TANK" ABBOTT
Tank Abbott vs
Butterbean © Marc Wickert Photos copyright Cage Rage On June 23, 2006, the world’s most famous street fighter, David "Tank" Abbott, will be squaring off against renowned Rumble On The Rock (ROTC) and Toughman fighter, Eric "Butterbean" Esch, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The time of this interview, Tank is relaxing at home in Huntington Beach, California, watching some TV: Deal or No Deal has just finished. It’s just a couple of days before Tank turns 41 (DOB 4/26/65). Although the official press conference for the Tank Abbott vs Butterbean main event has been cancelled three times, it’s now expected to go ahead on Wednesday, May 3. What information does seem to be known about this heavyweight showdown is that it will be an MMA event with tailor-made rules to suit the occasion, and is set for three 5-minute rounds. Punters on the internet seem to be pretty split as to how the fight will go. But the perpetually stoic Abbott takes public opinion with a grain of salt. "Well obviously a lot of people – those picking Butterbean – are wrong. He’s going to get his arse handed to him," says Tank. It is also believed Butterbean actually requested this bout, complaining that his previous opponents didn’t have a big enough punch to take him on – thus the request for master-blaster Tank Abbott. However, critics are also divided over which ‘Big Man’ will be bigger in the KO department, and some believe Butterbean has bitten off more than he can chew. It was at UFC 6 that Tank first burst onto the MMA scene and manhandled such larger-than-life fighters as 300-pound Paul Varelans and 400-pound John Matua. Abbott believes he’ll also have the KO-edge over Butterbean. "He weighs 400 pounds, but I don’t think he’s going to hit as hard as I do. He’s big, but that doesn’t mean he’s strong." David, how will you compare fitnesswise? "Ha, ha, ha…I don’t know…at 400 pounds, I don’t know how fit he is. But he does stay relaxed when he’s out there, so…We’ll see what happens." What do you expect his strategy to be? To just stand there and let you come to him? "Ha, ha, ha…I think what he’s probably going to do is make it a punch-fest, but we’ll figure it out, ’cause I have all the options. I don’t think he does." How’s your training going for this match? "It’s going good. I’ve got three weeks already under my belt, and I’m just ready to turn it up now, and take it to another level." What weight do you expect to be? "Oh, I think somewhere around 270. I don’t want to get too small against him, but I definitely want to have some cardio." And you expect him to come in at around 400? "I’m pretty sure he doesn’t train too hard. Even if he cut weight down to 350, I don’t think he’d be in too much shape, that’s for sure." On July1st, you’re fighting Amokrane "Kiane" Sabet at Cage Rage 17 in London. How will that go? "I never really overlook anybody, but I’m not even thinking about him. He doesn’t strike me as somebody I really need to think about." You saw him when you went to an earlier Cage Rage in London. "I saw him alright, but I’ve already forgotten." Will you have trouble backing up for that fight a week after the Butterbean fight? "No. I’m used to fighting three times in the one night, so it won’t be a problem to fight a week later." You’re also taking Eddie Ruiz and John Marsh with you as Team Tank. How will those guys fair? "Everybody’s going to be in shape, so we’ll just climb on a plane, go over there and beat some people up, and come home." Is Eddie Ruiz still as tough as rusty nails? "Oh, yeah…Eddie’s always been tough, so he’s in shape, he’s ready to go, and he’s looking forward to it. So is John. And so am I." David, is there anything you’d like to add? "We’ll be in shape and ready to hurt some people. And I feel sorry for the people who are going to be in the ring with us. They’re the ones who are going to get hurt."
NEWS JUST IN: According to Tank Abbott, his fight with Butterbean has been postponed by promoters, and now looks to be happening on August 19. David, what weight do you now expect to be fighting Kiane at? "Somewhere between 250 and 300 pounds. I really don't care." Watch for more info coming soon on Tank Abbott vs Butterbean, and Cage Rage 17 in the NEWS section at www.knucklepit.com.
TANK
ABBOTT The Barman’s Friend Is About to Strike Back
©Marc
Wickert January
12 & March 14, 2007 From
the moment the first David Abbott article appeared on Knucklepit,
Tank has remained the number-one subject of emails received at the site. And
the common theme in all these correspondences seems to be a love and
admiration for the man who lives by the motto: ‘Any place, any time’. Back
at UFC 15, it appeared nobody was game to fight the then heavyweight
champion, Maurice Smith, until Tank climbed off his bar stool, with just
three days’ notice, and agreed to stand toe-to-toe with Smith. At
the time, it looked as though Abbott was larger than life. However this
original ‘Huntington Beach Bay Boy’ wasn’t a movie character: He was
the real deal; and the fans loved him for being just that. But
while Tank does like to celebrate, frequently, he also puts in the hard
yakker to do what he loves most – fighting. And at the time of this
interview, Tank has just arrived home from another tough day of working out,
after hearing that his long-anticipated bout with Ji Hoon Kim finally looks
like happening on February 3 in Atlantic City. “I’ve
finished training at the boxing gym. I worked out five, 5-minute rounds,
then I went to a hill that’s by my house and ran up and down that five
times. It’s point three of a mile: I sprint up and jog down. So that’s
like a mile and a half, and then I went and ate some breakfast, and then I
kept lifting weights, and jumped on the treadmill and jogged an easy mile
after I got done lifting. Now I’m contemplating going to the bar,” says
Abbott. David,
how did you spend New Year’s Eve? “Oh,
that’s amateur day, so I usually don’t go out. I stayed at home with
some good friends and popped a little bit of Dom Perignon at midnight –
just kicked it at home.” What
do you know about Ji Hoon Kim? “I
just know that he’s not very smart ’cause he wants to fight me.” Apparently the fight was supposed to be this month, but Kim had visa problems. Is that what you heard? “They
called me up and said that they couldn’t get here because of immigration
problems. And before that, it was supposed to be December 16. They just keep
pushing it off, pushing it off… They were supposed to send me a contract
earlier this week and it never showed up. I’m ready to fight: I’ve been
training, but I’m at a fifty-fifty point whether they’re actually going
to make something happen. “I’m
running, getting into shape, whatever. So if he wants to turn up… I hear
he’s not much of a fighter… We’ll find out.” Who’s
promoting the fight? “These
Korean guys called World Mac.” How
did the fight come about? “They
just rang my walls and asked me if I was interested… And I’m always
interested in a fight – the good times, so I said sure.” Where
in Atlantic City is the bout being held? “It’s
supposed to be at the Boardwalk Arena, or something like that.” How
can fans purchase tickets? “I
have no idea: I’m kind of in the dark myself, so…” How
is your training coming along? “Well,
I’ve developed a new policy: Less is more. So it’s going along great.” Why
do you say that? “Because
less is more – I’m not doing that much. I’m in shape already and like
I said, I was supposed to fight December 16, and things get pushed back all
the time. I’m in like a ‘hubber’ mode, like sometimes I’ll peak for
a certain date. But because this is always in limbo, I’m just at hubber
mode. I’m in enough shape to beat ninety-nine percent of the people out
there that matter.” Who
are you training with for your boxing? “Just
my usual guys down at Westminster Boxing Gym, and then I’ve got my usual
Tyrone Bennett posed in my corner – working with him.” For
your wrestling? “I
go all over the place, but primarily with John Marsh. I think he’s in the
IFL right now, fighting for Antonio Inoki and the Sabres or something like
that.” Are
you still as strong as ever? “Oh,
absolutely.” How
are your Thai kicks going? “I’ve
kinda got them a lot better than they were against Cabbage – they’re my
hidden weapon with my spinning back-fists.” Do
I put that in there? “Go
ahead: If people don’t follow my sarcasm, they shouldn’t be reading my
stuff.” So
we’re not likely to see you doing any leaping high-kicks? “You
never know… followed by a spinning back-fist and a kick. I was trying to
say a karate thing, but I can’t think of one… like ‘Hi-Yah.’” Do
you have any other fights on the drawing board? “Yeah,
I’ve got a few coming up – that’s another reason why I’m getting
into shape, but I’ve got some stuff brewing. In fact, I’m reading a
contract right now. But I haven’t put pen to paper as yet.” Is
there any chance we’ll see you in one of the IFL Superfights? “Anything
is possible: You never know.” David,
is there anything you’d like to add? “Ah, I can’t think of anything. You’ve caught me at a sober moment.”
STORY
UPDATE: March 14, 2007
Tank is sitting at home, watching some TV after another tough workout. David, what happened with the Ji Hoon Kim fight? “I was ready to go at my end, but for some reason it just didn’t happen.” When will we see you fight? “I’ll be ready to fight this summer, but I’m not committed to anything in particular.”
TANK
ABBOTT Tank Abbott vs. Kimbo Slice
©
Marc Wickert December
10, 2007 This
match-up between David ‘Tank’ Abbott and Kimbo Slice (Kevin Ferguson)
was originally scheduled for October 12, 2007, but due to an eleventh-hour
about-face by one of the event’s major backers, the showdown will now take
place early in 2008. Abbott’s
opponent, Kimbo Slice, first came to prominence as a backyard brawler after
several of his underground street fights were caught on video and made
available through the internet. However, the Florida-born fighter recently
switched to sanctioned MMA bouts and notched up a victory when he defeated
former boxing champion, Ray Mercer, by guillotine choke (CFFC 5). For
the world’s most famous street fighter, Tank Abbott, no introduction is
necessary. And although both combatants acquired their doctorates in
fisticuffs on the street, Tank’s skills go much deeper, having taken up
wrestling at age nine, and becoming a junior college All-American wrestler
at age eighteen, before adding boxing to his repertoire at twenty-five years
of age. But
the real icing on the cake for Tank was when he first learnt about the
introduction of legalized NHB events being held in the USA, and he quickly
rose to fame as one of UFC’s hardest men. Living by the motto, “Anytime,
any place”, it appeared Tank was made for the cage, and he is now fired up
on all eight cylinders and rearing to lock bull bars with Kimbo Slice. David,
what were you doing before I called? “I
just got done running – only a two miler, but I’m only starting to get
in shape for the fight. It’s 11 weeks out, and I got done running.” Is
the contract signed for your bout with Kimbo Slice? “I
signed a deal with Showtime to fight Kimbo – most likely February 23, and
hopefully in Florida.” That’s
Kimbo’s town. “That’s
why hopefully it will be there: I want to beat him up in his home town.” How
was Thanksgiving at the Warlord’s? “Oh,
it was good. They’re all special-forces guys from the Vietnam era, and
they had a big spread out there on the ranch. We burnt down the house.” You said you were getting back into training after Thanksgiving. How is your training going? “It’s
been going well, actually. You know the last time I fought (against Gary
Turner), I was training to fight Kimbo and I wasn’t exactly in tip-top
shape. I was hanging out with my dad a lot and he likes to eat, so I
ballooned out to like 296. But yesterday I was 261 and I’m back in shape.
Usually when I start my training I’m 12 weeks out from a fight, and I’m
not as ahead of the game as I am today, so I’m a little ahead of the game.
Usually, I can’t even run a mile, but I just cruised the two miler easily. “Then
I did five rounds at the gym and I think I wrestled about 10 minutes before
I did lifting. And this far out from the fight I’m pretty ahead of the
game, so I should be in pretty decent shape for the fight.” That’s really encouraging. “Yeah,
I can’t say no to a party and I can’t say no to a fight. And a lot of
the time I’m not in shape, but I’ll be in shape for this fight.” Are you going in the Guinness Book of Records for being the only person to bounce 600-pound barbells off his chest and live to talk about it? “Oh,
yeah, I like the people who said I bounced that off my chest. I’d like to
see any of them try to bounce a weight bar off their chest. It’s called
explosion. I change direction: It has nothing to do with bouncing the bar,
but that’s for people who can’t do it – they have to come up with
excuses. Tell them to try bouncing the 135-pound bar off and see how their
chests feel. Called explosion: You can’t even bounce the bar off your
chest, you’d f**kin’ kill yourself. That’s why I say to them, ‘Stop
making excuses for why I can do it, and start making excuses for why you
can’t do it.’ ” Can you give a brief rundown of your fight with Kim Jihoon, please? “Yeah,
it never happened.” Wikipedia has you listed as winning in the first round by “submission (strikes)” at 2:10. Then they say that the win is not recognized by some websites. Is that because it was a scratching? “Yeah,
I won because it didn’t happen?” Jihoon didn’t turn up? “No,
for some reason they didn’t want me to fight. I think it had something to
do with money. And I don’t think they wanted him to lose, so the fight
never took place.” I
believe you were on the ‘Friends’ TV show. What was that like? “I
was on ‘Friends’, but that was about 10 years ago. It was fun and they
keep showing the re-runs a lot… Yeah, it was fun, I guess.” I also read you played John “Jackhammer” Rogan in a show called ‘Kenan and Kel’. “In
where?” Is it called ‘Kenan and Kel’? “I
don’t follow you on that.” Again, Wikipedia says you also appeared as John “Jackhammer” Rogan in that show. “No,
that wasn’t true either.” Do
you have any other plans for television? ‘ The Bachelor’? “Well,
they turned me down on that one because they said the girls might be
homicidal to want to go out with me.” Will
your match with Kimbo be in a cage or ring? “It
should be in a cage.” Will
it be normal MMA rules? “Yes,
it will. But it’s not going to last that long anyway: He’s going to get
knocked out real quick.” Is
it set for three 5-minute rounds? “It
is.” You
said it’s going to be on Showtime. Can fans actually go to the fight? “Yes.
Hopefully, it’s going to be somewhere in Miami and it will be in an arena,
but it’s going to be free-to-air – not p-p-v.” Have
you looked at any of Kimbo’s videos? “Just
when I’ve been drinking.” And
you were hugely impressed? “Not.” Kimbo is usually around 265, and you said you’ve cut down from 296 to 261. “That’s
right. But it isn’t how big you are, it’s how strong you are… and how
much you can bounce off a weight bar.” Apparently he has picked up some grappling skills from Bas Rutten and he choked out Ray Mercer with a standing guillotine. Will Kimbo be a problem if it goes to the ground, or do you feel your wrestling background will cover that area? “Oh,
I’m pretty sure my wrestling background will cover that area. I’ve been
wrestling since I was nine years old and there’s no substitute for
experience.” It’s
only that someone was saying on the internet that if it goes to the ground
you may have a problem there, and I thought of your bout with Hugo Duarte,
where you shrugged off his arm bar and rear naked choke. “Well,
everybody wants to have their little rib. If they know how to wrestle,
they’re tougher than I am. That’s why they say these things. But, little
do they know, I’ve probably wrestled twice as long as they have, and at
much higher levels than they have.” This
is the big question now: When are you returning DownUnder? “Yeah,
I don’t know yet. Probably soon: I’ve got to get my passport fixed up,
but I’ll definitely have to make a run down there – that’s for sure.
It’s been a while.” David,
is there anything you’d like to add? “No,
that’s cool. I’m going to be heading out to the wrestling room right
now.”
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