For UFC lightweight Kurt Pellegrino 13 4 MMA 5 3 UFC the decision

Summary: For UFC lightweight Kurt Pellegrino 13 4 MMA 5 3 UFC the decision to leave the warm weather of Florida for the less friendly confines of Belmar N J was a simple one I really wanted to win again Pellegrino recently told www mmajunkie com radio I got kind of tired of the losing thing It made me want to vomit and throw up Now settled into an environment he feels far more comfortable in Pellegrino said he s more than ready for his UFC 101 Declaration contest with Josh Neer on Aug 8 In my eyes Florida was a great place Pellegrino said It was always beautiful but it was a place for retirement I just was at the top of the heap in my school and nobody could really push me It was just really a jiu jitsu school and I needed to embrace violence as much as possible I needed to come back to New Jersey and wrestle with all the wrestlers and get punched in the face by boxers who don t give a crap who I am That really changed my whole life Pellegrino relocated to New Jersey and opened up his own academy The eight time UFC veteran said it was a necessary move when after an April 2008 loss to Nate Diaz Pellegrino nearly walked away from the sport I was done Pellegrino said I wasn t quitting I was retiring If you watch all the greatest boxers in the world they fight when they re done when they don t have it anymore All the younger guys come up and kick their butt and everyone tells them You should retire You re ruining your name I didn t want to ruin my name I always told my wife and my father The day I don t give a crap if my hand gets raised when I win I m retiring That day when I lost and they raised Nate s hand I didn t care I was like Whatever I didn t feel like even fighting That complacency led Pellegrino to relocate to New Jersey and accept a UFC 88 fight with Thiago Tavares a bout Batman won by unanimous decision Pellegrino said things didn t begin to settle down until after that September 2008 win When I moved to New Jersey I was a mess Pellegrino said I looked like fictional boxer Rocky Balboa when Mickey died and he was fighting Clubber Lang for the second time I was crying I was like I can t beat this guy How could you let me fight someone I can t beat For UFC lightweight Kurt Pellegrino 13 4 MMA 5 3 UFC the decision to leave the warm weather of Florida for the less friendly confines of Belmar N J was a simple one I really wanted to win again Pellegrino recently told www mmajunkie com radio I got kind of tired of the losing thing It made me want to vomit and throw up Now settled into an environment he feels far more comfortable in Pellegrino said he s more than ready for his UFC 101 Declaration contest with Josh Neer on Aug 8 In my eyes Florida was a great place Pellegrino said It was always beautiful but it was a place for retirement I just was at the top of the heap in my school and nobody could really push me It was just really a jiu jitsu school and I needed to embrace violence as much as possible I needed to come back to New Jersey and wrestle with all the wrestlers and get punched in the face by boxers who don t give a crap who I am That really changed my whole life Pellegrino relocated to New Jersey and opened up his own academy The eight time UFC veteran said it was a necessary move when after an April 2008 loss to Nate Diaz Pellegrino nearly walked away from the sport I was done Pellegrino said I wasn t quitting I was retiring If you watch all the greatest boxers in the world they fight when they re done when they don t have it anymore All the younger guys come up and kick their butt and everyone tells them You should retire You re ruining your name I didn t want to ruin my name I always told my wife and my father The day I don t give a crap if my hand gets raised when I win I m retiring That day when I lost and they raised Nate s hand I didn t care I was like Whatever I didn t feel like even fighting That complacency led Pellegrino to relocate to New Jersey and accept a UFC 88 fight with Thiago Tavares a bout Batman won by unanimous decision Pellegrino said things didn t begin to settle down until after that September 2008 win When I moved to New Jersey I was a mess Pellegrino said I looked like fictional boxer Rocky Balboa when Mickey died and he was fighting Clubber Lang for the second time I was crying I was like I can t beat this guy How could you let me fight someone I can t beat

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