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Rashad Evans

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 25, 1979

For me I think the pressure Chael Sonnen brings is hard to match with his offense, takedowns, ground and pound, hand in the face and dropping elbows and shots. It kind of wears down a fighter.

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You know, MMA doesn't need New York, New York needs MMA. And I say that with all due respect to New York.

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Eric Knuutila had a big impact on my wrestling career.

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Sometimes it doesn't always say Niagara Falls there, but you better believe, I represent Niagara Falls every time I step in the octagon.

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I like to have a lot of time to be able to format what I want to do, and how I'm going to do my training camp. When you're doing a camp on short notice, it makes everything else suffer.

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Yeah, I like going away for camp. It brings out the savagery.

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My wife is married to a part-time husband. That's hard to do. The kids get the short end of the stick, too.

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When I'm training for a fight, I'm not the same person that I normally am when I'm at home. I'm always thinking about fighting. I'm doing it day in and day out. Pretty soon, my personality starts to change. My temper's a little bit shorter, I don't have a lot of patience for a lot of things.

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I believe I can beat Anderson Silva, and I believe that the skills that I have is something he'd have hard time dealing with, but to compete against the guy, first and foremost, would be an honor in and of itself.

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And at the end of the day as an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.

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But if you look at a fight, it is anything but comfortable. So when you're fighting tough guys and you're not willing to go out of your comfort zone, you lose.

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I'm open to fighting at 185 or 205 pounds, but I think I need to give this 185-pound run a real, honest crack. Being at this weight class has definitely made me into a different fighter.

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Ring rust is real. I've experienced it myself.

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I enjoy the whole aspect of training with different people.

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I want to train with whoever is the best.

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You want your workout to sneak up on you. That's when you get the best results.

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The results of anything are equal to how persistent you are with it, so if you're persistent and dedicate yourself to working out, you'll get bigger results.

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If you fight a hungry fighter and you look into their eyes and you're not as hungry as they are, that's when you get eaten up.

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I remember the first time I fought somebody with a name and that was Tito Ortiz. I didn't start fighting until like the second round because I was like, 'Oh my God, that's Tito Ortiz. That's Tito Ortiz from TV. Look how big his head is, damn.'

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It's like when your parents tell you what to do, but it's not until you go through it yourself that you see why they said what they said. Sometimes you just have to go through things in life to become a better person.

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