30.05.2008 Shogun strikes backSays will fight Sokoudjou any time
After defeating Kazuhiro Nakamura at UFC 84, Cameroon’s Thierry Sokoudjou chose Brazil’s Mauricio Shogun as his next target in his quest for the light heavyweight belt. What started as just a healthy challenge at the press conference has become a more serious accusation by the Team Quest athlete in a recent interview with website FightHype.
In the interview, Sokoudjou said that Shogun has been running away from him since they were both fighting in Pride. He also said that he expects the Brazilian to finally accept his request to fight now that they are both working with the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Faced with the “African Assassin’s” declarations, even the always calm and respectful Shogun had to say something, and that’s why GRACIEMAG.com gave him a call:
“They can match me up against anyone and I’ll be happy. It is Dana White and the guys at the UFC who decide who I fight with. I’m not going to give this guy any attention, even because I have fought better fighters than him. He wanted to fight me and I never said yes or no – they just didn’t make it happen and he ended up fighting Ricardo Arona at Pride’s last event. I never heard anything about Chute Boxe telling him he’d have to fight Evangelista Cyborg before me, like he said. I’ll fight him like I have always fought all top competitors,” said Shogun, who is currently recovering from a knee injury at his new academy, called Universidade da Luta (‘Fight University’).
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