The Weekly Wrap: March 14 - March 20

Quoteworthy

“I don’t know how anyone would want to be the world champion with a belt around their waist that cheated to get there. It just doesn’t make sense to me.” -- B.J. Penn about Georges St. Pierre during a hearing before Nevada State Athletic Commission on greasing allegations he's made against GSP.

“Anyone can come to me and say, ‘Keith, we think there is a concern here. We think you should look at this.’ And I look at it with the [Attorney General’s] office and decide whether it rises to the level of a disciplinary complaint or not… I have no plans to bring a complaint against anybody in this case.” -- Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer to Sherdog.com following the hearing.

“As a commission member, as an executive director, you would think that his purpose is a fact-finding mission to obtain all the facts, all the evidence and to make an educated legal judgment upon the commission as to your determination. Do I feel he did that? Not at all.” -- Raffi Nahabedian, B.J. Penn’s attorney, to Sherdog.com about Keith Kizer.

“I’ve made it very clear to Chuck. Very clear. It’s not about money, it’s not about this, that. Chuck is one of my good friends. Chuck (has) cemented his legacy in the UFC and in the fight game. I’m not even saying if he wins, unless he looks incredibly impressive (in Montreal) -- I mean, he’s going to have to go out there and dazzle me, for me to want Chuck to still fight… I love him, and I don’t want to see what I saw in his last fight ever again." -- UFC President Dana White on Chuck Liddell to The Canadian Press.

“This is my only form of income. If I don’t fight, I’m nothing.” -- Karo Parisyan during the Nevada State Athletic Commission hearing addressing his drug suspension.

“How long has it been since somebody hit you on the chin for real?” -- Jason Guida to opponent and former WWE pro wrestler Bobby Lashley during a press conference for Saturday night’s “March Badness” pay-per-view.

“I really felt like I had a guy, who was my partner, that was really gifted in dealing with people. It was like Batman and Robin. We had the best team out there and I felt like nobody could beat us.” -- Dan “Punkass” Caldwell of Tapout to Sherdog.com on the late Charles “Mask” Lewis Jr.

“I'm sure if I got on the phone with Dana, we would talk for five minutes, and we could work anything out. I'm a pretty stubborn person; he's a pretty stubborn person. So is that phone call going to happen? I doubt it.” -- “Big” John McCarthy to Sherdog.com about whether he’d ever return to officiating in the UFC.

"Let me say, from the other side, I have now passed through some kind of spiritual realignment machine and I may never be the same. The night I watched a complete card of Ultimate Fighting -- from the gruesome defeat of a fighter called ‘The Viking’ to the comeback of the great ‘Rampage’ Jackson -- was one of the sickest, freakiest and most enlightening nights of television I have ever spent… By the time Rampage was landing his blows, I was cheering alone in my living room. As I swore off Ultimate Fighting for the rest of my life -- it’s horrifying -- I let myself whoop with joy when Rampage won. I told myself I was just trying to fit in." -- Virginia Heffernan, of The New York Times Magazine, on watching her first UFC pay-per-view.

The Week Ahead A boxing/MMA event promoted by Roy Jones Jr. tests the hybrid concept for the first time on pay-per-view.