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Video: Kenny Florian ready for Gray Maynard and a long career in MMA broadcasting
By Zach Arnold | June 20, 2010
Both he and Bruce Buffer flew into Las Vegas for Saturday’s UFC show and then immediately got on a flight to go up to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for Sunday’s WEC event on Versus.
LARRY PEPE: “Kenny, you have a big fight coming up in Boston, hometown, talk about that fight with (Gray) Maynard.”
KENNY FLORIAN: “Very excited, you know. I get a great opponent in my hometown, it’s a dream come true. This is definitely, you know, I consider the biggest challenge of my career right now. Gray has a lot of momentum. Undefeated and has a lot of very tough skills to deal with, so I’m looking forward to the challenge, man.”
LARRY PEPE: “Do you think if you win this fight has there been any discussion about whether you’ll get a title fight off of it?”
KENNY FLORIAN: “I haven’t heard anything from the UFC but I suspect that that’s probably going to be the case and maybe even more so for Gray you know considering he hasn’t had that opportunity so I think for Gray it’s a tremendous opportunity if he gets my be I assume he’ll get the shot. If I do, who knows. For me, I’m just focusing on dealing with what Gray brings into the Octagon that night.”
LARRY PEPE: “Doing a lot of work on MMA Live with (Jon) Anik and whoever happens to be the third wheel that week, right? And now you’re doing the broadcasting for the TUF Finale. Talk about the broadcasting side, do you really enjoy that? And do you enjoy the play-by-play?”
KENNY FLORIAN: “I do, I have a lot of fun, man, doing this. I get to pretend to know what I’m talking about and it’s much easier than being in there, you know, and getting hit in the face. But I really love it. I’ve been blessed in my life, I get to do a lot of things that I’m very passionate about and I think great cards all the way around, Ultimate Fighter finale, and doing the WEC card this weekend, so a lot of traveling but it’s a lot of fun.”
LARRY PEPE: “Kenny, you switched camps not too long ago and you’ve had a couple of fights since then, looked a lot better, a lot of crisper. What would you say is the biggest change in Kenny Florian since making the move to Firas (Zahabi)?”
KENNY FLORIAN: “I think it’s the approach that I have now to Mixed Martial Arts and the striking. I think as far as my striking game, it’s definitely more catered towards, to being Mixed Martial Arts friendly and compatible.”
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Melendez x Aoki
Penn x Edgar
Florian x Maynard
World’s most anticipated LW fights are happening one after another. Feather/Light weight divisions are really taking off this year.
Maynard is experiencing “Ricardo Arona Syndrome” after he got DDT’d by Rob Emerson. He’s too afraid to try his best to win fights. I’m 100% sure that his strategy against Ken-Flo will be exact the same as the previous fight with Nate Diaz. He will stay in his comfort zone for 15 minutes and take no risk in finishing the peruvian. Unless Florian gets lucky and takes the fight to the ground, the fight is guaranteed go the distance.