UFC lightweight Drew Dober unleashed a vicious knockout victory over Bobby Green at UFC Vegas 66 this past weekend. In a recent interview with The MMA Hour, however, Dober revealed that Green’s infamous trash talk was hard to keep up with in the Octagon. Until he knocked him out cold, that is.
“For the fight to finish the way it did is surprising and kind of surreal. I’ve looked up to Bobby Green, and I know how talented he is. Definitely hard to hit and definitely even harder to knock out, so I’m very happy with that win. But the first round happened as I expected it, he is super hard to hit, he was really fast.
Drew Dober Struggled With Bobby Green’s Trash Talk
Man, the trash talking and the way he moves his head, he is definitely a unique specimen to deal with.” Dober continued, detailing the unique experience of standing across from Bobby Green in the Octagon. When asked what exactly Green had to say, he replied:
“Everything. From ‘that punch missed’ to ‘nah that didn’t hurt,’ ‘that hit my elbow,’ ‘you’ve got nothing.’ And my favorite part was when I tried to talk back to him, and he told me to shut up and he hit me with a two-piece. That was incredible, so props to him.”
As for his own trash Talk, Drew Dober came to realize he just doesn’t have it in him. “I put forth my best effort to reciprocate and he shut that up real quick. I don’t even remember what I was trying to [say to him.] I’m not much of a talker, I’m more of an actions type of person. It kind of just drawed out some entertainment out of me and I wanted to give it a shot and it didn’t come out well.
I feel like me trying to trash talk is like giving your 10-year-old permission to cuss. It just doesn’t come out fluidly, so I was like, I need to dismiss that idea.”
Regardless, Green and Dober remain firm friends, and the pair have mutual respect. “Bobby and I have been cool with each other for the longest time. We’ve known that this fight was going to happen eventually. So we talked about scheduling and seeing when it could work. We’ve been very excited to fight each other and it was a blessing to have it this year.”
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