Pedro Rizzo Talks About the UFC
Submitted by: Marcello Tetel
Posted On 04/06/2003

After a disappointing upset and huge blow to his career last UFC, Pedro Rizzo is now returning to his training regimen. Pedro stayed away one month, recharging batteries and regathering his confidence to come back. Pedro is very upset with the results last times, and will go for an 'All or Nothing' approach in his next match. Rumours are out there that UFC tried to cut Rizzo's contract, but it impossible to do so.

Pedro stated that from now there is nothing to lose in his fights and hopefully the audience will be rewarded with a different fighter. Pedro does not want to do interviews and said only that there's no excuse for his last performance. He also stated that he is most likely facing Tra Telligman in a rematch at the UFC 43 in Vegas.

Pedro already knocked Teligman out the first time they met at UFC 20 - Battle for the Gold, back in 1999. Now we have 2 different fighters. Tra is enjoying a pro boxing career and promises to come back with even better standup. Pedro, on the other side of the table, knows that it is time to be the agressor otherwise he might pay a high price.

Cmon Pedro!

Represent!

I like Rizzo but damn he needs to stop trying to strike of the counter punch all the time. He could be a top ten guy if he would just get aggressive

pedro needs to do something cus he getting boring. i think marco beats him when he loses. rizzo is one of my favorite fighters and i would hate to see him stop fighting.

Pedro does need to step it up, I've never gotter why he doesn't fight aggresively when so many other UFC fighters tend to have poor stand-up, maybe it's fear of being taken down or because that's ho RIzzo fought. I think ifhe was more aggressive and built up his ground game like BAbalu, he'd be almost unbatable. I've always thought Pride was better for him anyway, as othrs also have. i just hope he doesn't take all these beating and build up a defeatist mentality.

I believe Rizzo will be a ufc champion as long as they let him fight.

Originally posted by Curly Howard
I like Rizzo but damn he needs to stop trying to strike of the counter punch all the time. He could be a top ten guy if he would just get aggressive

absolutely. he perfected the counter striking a few years ago and we watched him tear down animals like tank and dan severn. even barnett learned his lesson not to play a standup game with rizzo.

but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out rizzo's key to success. now fighter's are walking all over him with the simple "don't give him the opportunity to counter" strategy.

i really hope he delivers his promise but whether he does or doesn't, he's still a ****in warrior.

For me Pedro is one of the fighters, with tons of potential to one day become a champion. He had in the past many championship fights is time as I read here all or nothing!