"For me honestly I think that fight was lost six weeks before the fight even began"

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Rich Franklin

Mixed Martial Artist

Rich Franklin is a former mixed martial artist and UFC champion known for his strategic fighting style and mental resilience.

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Rich Franklin Mixed Martial Artist

"You have to have like a bit of amnesia both on the winning side and the losing side of this thing... On the losing side you need to be able to forget a loss to be able to move on and to be successful in your next fight. But on the winning side you need to be able to forget a win so you don't get stuck in this pattern of like, "I'm unstoppable". So there has to be a level of amnesia for a fighter."

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Rich Franklin Mixed Martial Artist

"I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds"

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Rich Franklin Mixed Martial Artist

"There's always that part of you, when you're sitting around going, 'That would be cool to try, to see what it would be like.' But I had never had that drive in me to say, 'Oh, I want to be a movie star one day.'"

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