Shields: I’m going to try to snap something
Jake Shields: “I would love to leglock him, but it’s probably not the best thing to go out there and play that game with him … If I get something I’m gonna try to snap it.”
Top welterweight Jake Shields appeared recently on told Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour, and discussed his upcoming fight with league champion Rousimar Palhares.
“I’m not gonna hold a submission too long, because I’m not a dirty fighter,” said Shields as transcribed by Marc Raimondi for MMAFighting.com. “But if I get an armbar, if I get a heel hook or something, I’m gonna grab it and try to crank it as hard as I possibly can and try to break it.”
“I can’t really say 100 percent, because I don’t know (if Palhares holds submissions on purpose). But I’m not really buying it. He’s done it over and over. I feel like it’s a cover up and he hides behind, ‘Oh, I’m Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. Jesus.’ That’s even worse. I think I’d respect him more of he was just like, ‘Yeah, I hurt you. Get over it.’ But the fact that he pretends that he’s so nice makes it even worse to me.”
“Of course, in the back of the head you worry a little bit, because you know this guy is gonna try to hurt you. There’s no doubt that if he gets a submission, he’s gonna try to break it. It gives me a little more motivation to take this fight seriously and make sure to win it. It also makes me go out there – like I said in the past – it makes me want to go out there and actually hurt this guy.
“I think maybe he just enjoys hurting people. Some people are sociopaths and they enjoy hurting people. I can’t say that for sure, not really knowing him, but that’s kind of how it seems. He does it in submission matches as well and supposedly he does it in training. He just goes out there and cranks it. Also, it might be a head thing, try to make people scared of him as well. People are gonna tap a little earlier if they’re scared he’s actually gonna break their knee.”
“I would love to leglock him, but it’s probably not the best thing to go out there and play that game with him. … That would be the best way to beat him. But it’s risky. I would love to go out there and heel hook him.”
“Im gonna go out there with the intention. If I get something I’m gonna try to snap it.”