‘Rampage’: Hamill Will Pay for His Words at BetLM

‘Rampage’: Hamill Will Pay for His Words

I was told some­thing inter­est­ing about Matt Hamill today. He’s never been knocked out or knocked down or even really hurt with a punch to the chin. I’m going to see what I can do to change that on Sat­ur­day night here in Las Vegas for UFC 130.

Hamill was stopped on a kick to the ribs by Rich Franklin, but I am talk­ing a flat-on-his-back, arm-swung-out, sleepy-time KO. That’s what I am look­ing to do.

I’m look­ing for­ward to the fight. But the weight cut? Not so much. I’m hun­gry and I’m not look­ing for­ward to cut­ting, but I’ve only got a few pounds. I can’t say I am too happy, but I’m healthy and I feel good — and the day before a weigh-in, that’s as good as it gets.

This is the best “Ram­page” I’ve been since I fought Wan­der­lei Silva the last time. I am a lit­tle upset with myself going up in weight so much after the Machida fight, but it was Thanks­giv­ing, Christ­mas and then New Year’s and I enjoyed myself too much. But because of that, I couldn’t accept a fight with Mauri­cio “Shogun” Rua for the UFC World Title when Rashad Evans pulled out. I had too much weight to get rid of in six weeks and so Jon Jones got it. That upset me, and I am still angry at myself. I could have done two things at once that I want to do: Beat “Shogun” and get my UFC belt back.

But, lis­ten, I am a lazy guy. I like video games and pizza. I dread the gym; it is some­thing I have to do for my job. But I will train hard when I am there. I’ve been doing weights a lit­tle dif­fer­ent and feel very strong. If Hamill’s wrestling isn’t as good as he thinks, he could get his ass slammed in the Octagon.

All I am think­ing of now is beat­ing Hamill and look­ing impres­sive and hav­ing the fans go home say­ing, “Did you see that?”

I did an open work­out here at the MGM Grand today and the press were telling me that I looked good. I appre­ci­ate that, but I got so much more to show on Sat­ur­day night. For real. Ram­page fans are going to be very happy; I think Hamill believes in his chin and will fight. He says he will “break my will” and he’s really going to regret ever say­ing that about me. He was really dumb say­ing that. Say you think you can win, that you gonna beat me, but don’t think you gonna make me want to give up — make me want to lose — because that’s not who I am.

He’s a good wrestler but I’ve beat bet­ter wrestlers — Olympic wrestlers like Dan Hen­der­son. If Hamill does take me down (and I doubt that will hap­pen once), I will be back up so quick my ass won’t have even touched the can­vas. People’ll be like: “What hap­pened? Was there a take­down?” I am an attack­ing fighter but a defen­sive wrestler … I use my wrestling to stop take­downs and to get back up from takedowns.

It is going to be good to fight some­one who wants to have a fight again. I respect all fight­ers; this is a hard way to make a liv­ing, and I respect the skills of Rashad Evans and Lyoto Machida. But they came to not get hit and for the “W,” not so much to have and win a fight.

I think Hamill knows he has a fight Sat­ur­day and will come to fight. He’s a tough guy. It is pretty amaz­ing what he’s done with his life after being born deaf. A guy has to be tough to do all that. But any­one in the divi­sion I hit — any­one — will go down.

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