“Nothing else matters but that dude trying to kick you in the face or throw you on your head or trying to rip your arm out of the socket. “It’s one of those things where when you’re training and fighting, you can’t worry about your bills, your mortgage, did you get your girlfriend pregnant, your pet’s cancer, or anything,” he once told me when asked the appeal of fighting for him. Behind the lens - Photos that will knock you outīut if he was asked a thoughtful, pertinent question – and no, ‘How’s training going?’ didn’t qualify – the questioner got gold from the Georgia product, who had a way of explaining life and the fight game that made complete sense, even if you never thought of it in quite the way he did.Behind the lens - over 15 years of greatest UFC photography. Figures that helped us get here: Hughes | Lesnar | Faber | Griffin | Tate | St-Pierre.Best of the best: Strikers | Entrances | Upsets | Moments | Events | KO's.He wasn’t being snarky (well, maybe a little) it was just that he appeared to want the same level of dedication paid to his inquisitor’s art as he gave to his.īottom line, if he was asked a stupid question, he either gave a one-word answer back or something completely off the wall and unusable. There were days when Forrest Griffin didn’t want to talk.
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