Quarry Talks Starnes and the “Rock-Hammer”
If anyone watched UFC 83 they know about the Quarry vs. Starnes fight. It was a 15 minute chase scene with Starnes going cross-country style and Quarry trying to keep up to unleash anything he could to finish the fight. It was simply a horrible and bizarre fight. For the duration of the 15 minutes Starnes ran away for 14 minutes and 20 seconds of the fight. The other 40 seconds he tried to get a taebo workout in.
Through the entire fight you could tell Quarry was getting frustrated. Finally in the last minute he started mocking Starnes trying to goad him into an exchange. That didn’t work, but it got the Canadian fans behind him. After the bout Quarry gave the Rocky IV speech to top it off.
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Quarry:
“I just decided to make light of the situation and be like, hey man, this is what I’m seeing. I’m seeing a running man. That just came to me out of nowhere. When there were ten seconds left I just said to myself, all right, I’m calling the technique the rock-hammer. I don’t know if that name will stick or not.”
Quarry continued, “I was just like, okay, he’s just going to run away from me. For ten seconds I’m going to do this and maybe, just maybe he’ll step in and try to hit me and we’ll see what happens. When I’m doing that, he’s still running away from me backwards. It was just unbelievable to me.”
For the entire article read QUARRY TALKS STARNES AND THE ROCK-HAMMER.
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