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Pat Barry prepares for his sophomore UFC appearance against yet another behemoth – six-foot-four, 260-pound Edmonton, Alberta native Tim Hague, whom he will face at UFC 98 on May 23:
I’ll be honest; I’m going to kick his leg a few times, then I’m going to kick his head off into the twelfth row. You can train to defend low kicks all day and night and you can have the best low kick defense in the world and that’s cool, Barry explains. You can get in the cage expecting that low kick but what you can’t plan for and what you can’t anticipate is what’s coming before and what’s going to come after the low kick.
It’s impossible not to get the jitters the first time you fight. Hague is definitely not going to be very calm heading into the fight.
I must be obsessive compulsive or something because, lets say I wake up in the middle of the night and I have to use the bathroom and when I woke up I was sleeping on my right side, I have to go back to bed on my left side. If I get up again, I go back to sleep on my right side, he explains. When the alarm goes off, I have to lie on my left side for ten minutes wide awake to even things out; he says. It’s insane and miserable and it drives me crazy. If I gotta’ miss breakfast, I’ll miss breakfast just to make things even. That’s why I won’t ever get a tattoo. I see a guy with a full-length sleeve and I wonder how he doesn’t fall over from being uneven.
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