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MAURO RANALLO: “What about Vitor Belfort? I know that you were helping him prepare for his fight against Anderson Silva. Now, he’s at Xtreme Couture, your former home base, talk of him recruiting Mike Tyson to help him prepare for Anderson Silva. What is your relationship with Belfort and why won’t you be in his corner?”
SHAWN TOMPKINS: “Well, you know, Vitor has done this before. Vitor sometimes, he gets a little clouded in his head. It’s not that he brought in Mike Tyson or anything like that. Vitor just wanders, you know, and he goes where, you know, what’s happening, what’s famous, what’s popular and he’ll go over there and Mike Tyson isn’t teaching him anything. Neither is the other eight gyms that he’s training at. Just because he’s over at Couture’s and not with me doesn’t mean he’s with Couture’s. Vitor isn’t loyal to anybody. We’ve seen it before.”
MAURO RANALLO: “I do sense some acrimony. Are you then not on good terms with Vitor right now?”
SHAWN TOMPKINS: “I hope for the best for him, but you know for a guy who told me about respect, loyalty, and God and all this stuff for so many years, he sure did prove the opposite. So, we’ll see. Best of luck to him. Best of luck to Anderson, as well.”
He obviously has static with Vitor, so why doesn't he just admit it. I wish him the best... bs. Just say, he left my school for another school, I hope he gets smashed so I can laugh about it.
Norifumi "KID" Yamamoto declares that Dominick Cruz is not a challenge.
In an interview with Japanese outlet Daily Sports, recent UFC signee and Japanese superstar Norifumi "KID" Yamamoto spoke on his career and how he evaluates the rest of the field in UFC's new bantamweight division.
"It's all right, there aren't really any guys at my level," Yamamoto commented. As for UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz, "[He's] nothing special... not at all. I'll bring him down."
Cerrone for me. More because I think Kelly sucks than I think Cerrone is good. I think Cerrone can keep it standing though and use his reach and kicks.
Pretty sure I am going to be on Belfort and Forrest here too.
Yeah, I think he is decent, but I think he will struggle against the top UFC LW's. He will probably be a solid gatekeeper type, but he will never be in the title mix IMO
Yeah his wrestling probably won't be good enough. His grappling seems to be solid though. The thing that impresses me about him is the fact that he was a pro kickboxer that came over to mma and won almost entirely by submission.
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