Baroni: ‘I want my piece of the pie’
“Randy Couture has a legacy. Wanderlei Silva has a legacy. Chuck Liddell, guys like that who have been champions, they…
“Randy Couture has a legacy. Wanderlei Silva has a legacy. Chuck Liddell, guys like that who have been champions, they have legacies. For me, I’d say I want my piece of the pie.
“It used to be if I’d see someone with a Tapout t-shirt five or six years ago, they’d nod at me because they know who Phil Baroni is. Now everyone and their brother has a Tapout shirt on, and they don’t know half the fighters in the sport. It’s a different time. A lot of guys made a lot of money and got a lot of exposure off the sport I dedicated my life to. I’m not going to lie, I’m happy for those guys, but I want my piece. It’s my turn now.”
It’s maybe a little too fitting that Baroni will get one last chance to breathe some life back into his career on New Year’s Day. It’s the kind of thing that, if it were a movie, would be perfect to the point of being annoying.