Marquardt is the Opie of MMA

A couple of vids with middleweight contender Nate Marquardt, including his pre-fight video blog and a post-fight interview from Saturday’s UFC 102. The post-fight one is especially interesting – he knocked out Demian Maia in 21 seconds just a few moments before in the biggest fight of his career, so you know the adrenaline and endorphins have have him jacked to the rafters, But you can’t tell from they way he talks, about as low key as you can get. Who knows, maybe he’s got a bong in the dressing room.

Oh, yeah. One other thing. I hate Mike Straka. He’s the Fox sports reporter conducting the interview. He asks dumb questions, seems easily distracted, and he’s always chewing gum. It makes him look like a skeezoid goombah Joe Pesci wannabe. Or a gameshow host.