Ten questions with Ian "The Machine" Freeman
17 Nov 2009 11:58
Ten questions with.....
OK, as promised a change to my format on these blogs. Over the last ten years in MMA I have been lucky to meet and train with some pretty amazing people. What I wanted to do was use this space to ask some of these people a few questions. I expect that some people you will of heard, others maybe not. To kick the series off, I had the great privileged of interviewing a true pioneer of UK MMA. A guy who was fighting on the UFC before most of the current crop of UK UFC stars had even seen MMA. With his recent announcement that he would like to return to competition.
It was an ideal time to have ten questions with Ian "The Machine" Freeman!
1. Ian the rumours are all over the forums, are you looking to fight again? What's cause you to consider a return?
I never really quit to be honest. I just stopped competing as often as I did. My training is still hard and I'm still kick...
I also asked Ian how he felt about suffering a KO loss at the hands of Melvin Manhoef (but it made 11 questions and I wanted to keep the interviews as 10 questions only)
This is what Ian had to say:
"I made a big mistake going into that fight and got cought fair and square. If we did manage to fight again, its very rare that lighting would strike twice in the same place, and if it did, I'd be ready for it more than I did in our first fight.
Everyone said epstien was gonna KO me, he never. Everyone said Cahoon was gonna KO me he never. The difference between my fight with Epstien and Cahoon compared to Manhoef was my mind was focused. My mind was not switched on when I fought Manhoef and made a costly mistake by just getting in the cage with him."
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