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December 18, 2007

UFC 79 conference call audio

Folks, UFC held a UFC 79 teleconference for the media today and Steve Cofield of Fox Sports Radio Las Vegas has all the audio up on his blog. He has the call broken down by fighter. Matt Hughes, Georges St. Pierre, Chuck Liddell, and Wanderlei Silva were all on the call.

These media conference calls are a great opportunity to ask fighters questions and hope they don't answer with the standard fare. Most of the time, they respond predictably. However, take a listen to Hughes. He doesn't really sound like he wants to be there, does he? A lot of his answers are short and he sounds a bit irritated.

As a sportswriter, I love the Hughes audio. If I was his PR team (does he even have one?) I wouldn't be too thrilled with it. But, this is Hughes raw and pretty much the way we all saw him on TUF 6. This audio is a good illustration of why fans either love Hughes or hate him. Either way, I don't think he particularly cares.

Again, click here for all of the audio.

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Mark Chalifoux covered his first MMA event at UFC 68 in Columbus, Ohio. Since that night, he’s been hooked on the sport. He is based in Cincinnati and also works in sports talk radio. He’s written for the Athens News, ESPN.com, SI.com, The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Chalifoux Family Christmas Newsletter.

Pramit Mohapatra, who currently runs FightTicker.com, previously authored this blog.
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