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Joachim Hansen
MMA Hit Pit recently caught up with the first and current DREAM Lightweight Champion Joachim "Hellboy" Hansen for this exclusive quick fire interview.
MMA Hit Pit: What are your opinions on MMA being banned in Norway?
Joachim: I don't care any longer, we train hard and go to other countries to compete.
MMA Hit Pit: What's it like fighting in Japan?
Joachim: Its great, it was always my dream to go there from the start.
MMA Hit Pit: How does it feel to be the first ever DREAM Lightweight Champion?
Joachim: Feels good.
MMA Hit Pit: Do you have any thoughts on the MMA scene in the UK?
Joachim: I think MMA in the UK has come far, very good fighters and professional organisations. I've been training a lot with Robbie Olivier, Aj Wenn, the evil McGuire brothers and Pierre Guillet who gave me dinner at his house, he served me beef infected with mad-cow disease.
MMA Hit Pit: If you could fight anywhere in the world where would it be?
Joachim: UK or in Atlantis as soon as the Antarctica melts.
MMA Hit Pit: What are your thoughts on your fellow countryman Simeon Thoresen?
Joachim: He is a very good fighter and training partner, i been sparring with him for 3 years now and he just gets better and better.
MMA Hit Pit: Did you have a hero when you were growing up?
Joachim: Hulk and Skeletor and Roger Moore.
MMA Hit Pit: What motivates you to get into the cage?
Joachim: I'm addicted to the ecstasy of battle.
MMA Hit Pit: If you weren’t a fighter, what would you be doing?
Joachim: I don't know, I've been a fighter for a thousand lifetimes.
MMA Hit Pit: Who would win in a fight, you or the comic book Hellboy?
Joachim: I am Hellboy.
MMA Hit Pit: What are your plans in 2009?
Joachim: I don't know, continue MMA fighting see how it goes,try help my students and training partners become better fighters.
MMA Hit Pit: What are your thoughts on the UFC?
Joachim: There are many good fighters in UFC that's all I will say.
MMA Hit Pit: Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years time?
Joachim: I'll be living in the mountains learning the true worship of nature or breathing nuclear waste, I don't know, the future its unpredictable.
Photo courtesy of Sherdog
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