Forrest Griffin’s speedy exit at UFC 101 ‘wasnt a big deal'



http://mmamania.com/2009/08/12/ufc-quic ... -big-deal/


“He wasn’t injured. He’s an emotional guy and he just didn’t feel like sticking around. He’s done that before. After the Jardine fight, they kind of surrounded him a little bit, but he said a couple of things into the mic and left the cage pretty quickly. Just the emotions of…here is a guy who is very confident that he could win this fight and he just never had a chance to get off. He’s an emotional creature, so he left the cage. It wasn’t really a big deal. I think people are making a bigger deal about it then it really is. It wasn’t anything left to see anyway. Anderson had beaten him and it wasn’t like it was going to a decision. We already knew what happened, so he decided to go into the back and get his tape off and get changed and everything else. I think he was kind of comforting us more than anything else because we were all down and bothered and you know, that’s that.”

– Xtreme Couture boxing coach Ron Frazier tells FightHype.com that the hoopla surrounding Forrest Griffin’s mad dash for the locker room following his knockout loss to Anderson Silva at UFC 101 was much ado about nothing — and that most of what people wanted to know in his post-fight comments was already covered in the few minutes he spent getting manhandled by “The Spider.” Do fighters have an obligation to their opponents to stay for the official announcement? Or is it okay to split if they’re not in the right frame of mind? Sound off, Maniacs.

he just did what jenny told him to do !!!RUN FORREST RUN !!!
& before he knew it he was !!!RUNNING!!

I think people are making a big deal about it because he always says he doesn't care whether he wins or loses etc. And he has such a laid back personality and people like him so they wanted to hear what he had to say after the fight.

If you watch the broadcast again you can actually here Dana in the background yelling out "Forrest What the F&*k!!" as he runs from the Octagon, indicating that it is not something that is recommended and that the fighters are obligated to stay and talk. On another occasion after Chuck lost in dramatic fashion he wanted the leave the Octagon and I saw Dana stand in front of him (he may have even physically held on to him), look him in the face and tell him that he was staying for an interview.

I was disappointed with Forrest running off like that.

It really isn't a big deal. Fighters handle defeat (especially domination) differently, and Forrest has ALWAYS been an emotional guy in really bad defeat. As much as it sickens me to quote Frank Trigg, he hit the nail right on the head in his response to those criticizing and/or flaming Forrest, in that they "have never been passionate about anything in their lives."