Guillard: I’d fight my mother for the title
“I am the best 155-pounder,” Guillard told MMAjunkie.com. “I’m a finisher. No disrespect to Frankie Edgar or Gray Maynard, but…
“I am the best 155-pounder,” Guillard told MMAjunkie.com. “I’m a finisher. No disrespect to Frankie Edgar or Gray Maynard, but they proved it in the last fight when they fought each other. Gray had him on his heels and didn’t finish. I’m a finisher. I go in for the kill. I smell blood.
“I guess you could say I’ve been through so much in my life, getting in the cage and swinging hands and putting people away, that’s easy for me. Growing up with a mother that was a Baptist minister whipping me all the time, that’s the stuff I’m afraid of. I can get in there and throw hands with anybody. It’s just all about the organization and the bosses giving me my opportunity.”
“I just had to grow up. Like Dana said, when he first met me on ‘The Ultimate Fighter,’ I was just a young kid. I’ve grown with this business for the last six years, and it’s been great. I’ve had a lot of down times, but a lot of people stuck in my corner – Mr. Joe Silva, Dana, himself, Mr. Lorenzo (Fertitta). I always go back and think about when Dana told me, ‘Kid, get your s— together, and you can be great.’ I did. I put myself in rehab and got my s— together.
“I’ve got a beautiful wife. I’m more of a family man now. I’m not hanging out in the streets. I play more golf in the daytime than I see nightlife now. It wasn’t like that. I was always in clubs. I don’t even go out anymore. I go to dinner with the wife, and I do movies. I’m doing the family thing.”
“The UFC is by far the biggest sport in the world to me, and I’m happy to be a part of this. I always tell myself that I would hate for a kid to walk up to me and say, ‘Hey, when’s your next UFC fight?’ and I’m no longer in the UFC. That’s why I work so hard to fight to stay in. I’m in, and nobody is going to take my position.
“I’m going to just keep knocking guys out until I get a title shot.”
“I want to have a kid one day, and I tell my kid, ‘Your dad would have been a great champion, but I let Clay Guida have my spot.’ I can’t live like that. That will ruin my legacy.
“We’re all here for one reason. This is business. I’ll fight my brother for that UFC title. I’ll fight my mother for that UFC title. I mean that, and that’s from the heart. When that time comes and I have to fight a teammate, we have to sort out how we’re going to do the training camps, but may the best man win. I will be the better man that day.”
