“I acted very unprofessionally after the fight, and I’ll leave it at that. You guys ask me all the time if there’s anything I can drag over from WWE, and I guess you’ve seen a little bit of that tonight. I’m used to selling pay-per-view tickets.” -- Brock Lesnar, about an hour later, atoning for his post-fight behavior at the press conference.
“Lesnar post fight speech prob best ever in all sports.” -- Dallas Mavericks and HDNet Mark Cuban on his Twitter account.
“That's not who Brock really is, and what he did out there is not real. You don't have to act like someone you're not. This isn't the WWE. I'm not trying to get someone to act all crazy so we'll do more pay-per-views. That's not what this sport is about.” -- UFC President Dana White following UFC 100.
“If I can just nail that gap to even 10 pounds, it’ll be a different fight next time.” -- Frank Mir to The Las Vegas Review Journal on his loss to Lesnar.
“Eventually, Fedor is going to be here. I want him to come to the UFC. We'll end up getting that deal done and we'll do Brock vs. Fedor. It will be a huge fight.” -- UFC President Dana White fielding a question about Brock Lesnar's future title challengers in the post-show press conference at UFC 100.
“If I was the UFC champion, I would never be able to leave the UFC. The contract would just keep extending and extending. But if I lost, they could just kick me out of the UFC.” -- Fedor Emelianenko to TIME Magazine in an article about why he's not in the UFC.
“The pressure's not on me, the pressure is on him. They already know. The facts are the facts. We made him the best offer out there -- more money than anyone else. So he can't say it's about the money. Then they come back and they say, ‘Oh, they have one-sided contracts.’ Let's break this down from a logical standpoint. We offer Fedor the exact same contract that 300 other guys have signed… Why is that contract not good enough for Fedor? Okay, let's be logical. What Fedor wants is this, he doesn't want to be exclusive. So, it’s like saying, okay, Tom Brady: “I’m going to play for New England Patriots one Sunday, but you know what? After that game’s over, I want to be a free agent and go see where I can play for the rest of the season.” How does that make sense for us as a business or for the fans? -- Lorenzo Ferttita on signing Fedor Emelianenko during a Q&A with fans prior to UFC 100.
“I can't stand being called an old man. So I had to shut a lot of people up.” -- Mark Coleman to UFC.com about victory over Stephan Bonnar at UFC 100.
“This doesn’t bother her, the fact that all the media, almost all the media, thinks that it’s like Beauty and the Beast. For her it doesn’t matter because the important time is inside the (cage).” -- Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos, through an interpreter, on her fight with Gina Carano during the Strikeforce press conference in New York.
"What's going to happen, this is how it's going to work out. Ten years down the road, you're going to start seeing people that have brain damage, you're going to see people starting to slow down, they're going to be on welfare. You're going to start seeing a lot of this garbage trail that is going to happen from fighters that have gotten involved in MMA and that weren't taken care of and didn't have a plan. And they're going to start seeing all this backlash. Like you did in football with the old players in the union, where these guys basically made the NFL what it is today for these guys to make all that money, all these old players. But yet they didn't receive any benefits or anything like that. Now they're getting it." -- Ken Shamrock on Inside MMA discussing a fighters' union.
The Week Ahead
Dream 10 goes off July 20 from Saitama Super Arena, featuring the semifinals of the welterweight grand prix tournament (Hayato Sakurai vs. Marius Zaromskis and Jason High vs. Andre Galvao) as well as Shinya Aoki vs. Vitor Ribeiro and Paulo Filho vs. Melvin Manhoef.