Mr. Beelzebub
05-08-2003, 01:21 PM
Published by John Hartnett on 05/06/2003 at 01:08 PM
The following interview was conducted by John Hartnett of MMANews.com:
John Hartnett: First off, how have you been keeping yourself busy since your last fight?
Frank Trigg: Been doing a couple different things. I’m getting ready to do a video deal, I’ve got an instructional manual that Ive just finished up and I’m getting ready to put out and just training and running the rAw academy.
John Hartnett: As far as this year, do you have any fights scheduled?
Frank Trigg: Nothing yet, we are working on a deal right now with PRIDE, hopefully Ill be in their June show, and their next two shows with the third one being in January in Las Vegas. Hopefully that will come through, and we are also waiting on WFA to let us know when their next event is.
John Hartnett: So you have no word from the WFA about when you’ll be defending your title?
Frank Trigg: No, I have no idea. They told me July, but they also told me it was gonna be in March before that, so who knows.
John Hartnett: How many fights would you like to get in before the end of this year?
Frank Trigg: As many as I can get. I’d like to fight six times a year but under the circumstances Ill take whatever’s left. You know, were hitting up to half way threw the year right now so if I can get three or four more in this year we’ll be ok.
John Hartnett: Looking back on your career thus far, what would you say has been your biggest challenge to date?
Frank Trigg: My toughest fight was Jean Jaques Machado.
John Hartnett: What do you think you learned from that fight?
Frank Trigg: Constant motion is the key to beating anybody. And then making sure that even if you are exhausted that you have to keep superior position, you always have to try and keep superior technique than your opponent.
John Hartnett: Looking forward into the future, who would you like to face and who do you think you’d match up well against?
Frank Trigg: I’d match up well against anybody in my mind. As far as who I’m gonna face, I could care less. Ill beat who ever they want to put me in front of. It’s all about dollars; it’s not necessarily about titles for me at this stage in the game. Whoever’s gonna pay me is the one that’s gonna get me and then whoever they put me against is who I’m gonna fight. I don’t ever turn down a fight against anybody, although I have been turned down for fights by other people who I’ve requested fights against. But I don’t turn anybody down, whoever comes up front, if all the money is correct were in it were in the ballgame.
John Hartnett: A lot of talk has been going on as you obviously know, about the UFC and who the next challenger for Matt Hughes will be, and it appears to be you are the prime candidate. What are your thoughts on that?
Frank Trigg: Well you know that’s what they’re saying on the internet, which is basically just a bunch of fourteen year old and fifteen year old kids running around saying that’s what they wana see. But the reality is that it’s not up to them its up to the UFC. And to my knowledge they’ve never contacted us about me fighting anybody let alone Matt. So I have no idea what they are going to do. And their next show is June sixth, so if they wana have me fight Matt, he’s not going to fight until their whenever, September show I guess.
John Hartnett: I think it’s in August.
Frank Trigg: Ok, so he’s not gonna fight till August, so if they are gonna have me fight him they need to have me in there first. They gotta have me fight someone else first, first there’s no way I should come in and fight Matt right away for the title, that doesn’t make any sense. We try to make this a professional sport, and to have someone come in that’s unranked in your organization and all of a sudden he shows up and he’s fighting for the title that’s ridiculous. So they have to have me fight some time before that and that’s the June sixth show, and we are looking at thirty one days from today for that event. And they haven’t contacted us at all. So I don’t see wanting me fight whoever for whatever reason I’ve discussed this before. Its not personality wise, I actually at least in my mind got along well when I met with Lorenzo. But it’s just a business decision on their part, it’s up to them. Unless they contact us there’s nothing we can do about it.
John Hartnett: So let’s say everything goes right, and everything goes as planned and you do face Matt Hughes, how would you approach that fight?
Frank Trigg: Same way I approach any other fight. I’m just gonna do what I always do, I’d out hustle him, out strength him, out power him, out technique him like I do with anybody else I fight. Pick and choose my positioning and it’s gonna be a battle of technically he thinks it’s his ring and his event as far as being the champion of the show. So it’s going to be proving him that it’s my show, my ring and my event and that it’s my belt and he’s just basically hanging on to it.
John Hartnett: A lot of people compare you guys, they say you have similar styles and some people think Hughes is stronger than you and then other people think that your more technically sound than Hughes. What do you think about Matt Hughes’ skills?
Frank Trigg: His skills have improved over the last seven years, I’m not a big tape watching guy, I don’t watch tapes of all the other fighters. When the pay-per-view shows come on, I don’t even watch most of the events. The last one, the only one I saw in the UFC was the Hughes, Sherk fight. I didn’t get to my buddies house until late cause basically I’m doing other stuff. Hes strong compared to everyone else he’s competed against but when I was competing at 76 kilos in wrestling, I was one of the strongest guys in the world at my weight and I was probably around top twenty as far as technique goes in the world and my weight as well. So as far as Matt being stronger than me, I don’t think that’s going to be possible. I’ve been gifted with the natural athletic ability to be strong and wirey and that’s just what I am. There’s just no way that pound for pound at any weight or any situation you want to put us in that Matt going to be stronger than I am. So it’s just not gonna happen. He’s defiantly more explosive than I am. And that’s to his advantage that he’s a more explosive fighter than I am, but my styles are grueling wear you down beat you up style. But then after working since my last fight very heavily on my submission game and I don’t believe I have improved that much but my instructors and my teammates say I’ve improved greatly, but that remains to be seen until my next fight where we can actually say one way or the other as to what’s improved and what hasn’t improved. Stylistically we match up very well for me, but for Matt it’s a bad match up. Because he’s not gonna be able to overpower me, he’s not going to be able to out technique me, he’s not gonna be able to out hit me. My striking is better on my feet than his is and than his were, even back in November when I last fought. I’ve improved my game since then, so it’ll be a interesting match up to say the least but as of right now, it’s a non issue because I don’t see it happening.
John Hartnett: Speaking of your instructors and your training, Matt Hughes has one of the top notch training facilities out in Iowa with the Miletech Fighting Systems….
Frank Trigg: That’s all speculation
John Hartnett: Right, and your out there with rAw out in California, what should people expect when they want to go out there and train with you guys?
Frank Trigg: Tough workouts very regulated, very structured. Unlike most other main academies through out the world our head instructors there all the time, everyday. Working us out, working out with us, you know beating us up and puts us in a situation where we know we are going to lose for a certain purpose. Like he knows that I’m not as good a submission artist as say like Fernandinho Vasconcelos or I’m not as good a guard passer as someone is so he puts me in that position where I’m not gonna win in that position and I’m completely exhausted, and that forces me to learn how to survive and how to function in a position I’m poor at and I’m not going to do very good at. And in most other academies you walk in and you don’t feel like striking for that day, you don’t feel like wrestling for that day, you don’t have to. Well in our place if there is even one thing we see that you really don’t wana do, your gonna spend the whole practice in that position, just learning how to deal with things that you don’t like to do all the time. It’s very regulated, we have practice every day at 4:30, everyone has responsibilities to the academy as well as to each other making sure things run smoothly. Everyone has to do their day to day desk work and as far as watching the desk and checking other members in and every fighter has to be here and take four group classes a week as well as taking practice. Even when your not training you have to be at practice everyday, even when you don’t have a fight coming up, you still have practice everyday.
John Hartnett: So how much do you think they have improved your skills?
Frank Trigg: Oh tremendously. I had no skills; I just had wrestling ability and the will to want to win. That’s the only thing I had when I first moved out here and since then I’ve actually learned how to pass, I’ve actually learned how to punch, I’ve actually learned how to kick, I’ve actually learned how to counter submissions, I’ve actually even learned how to do some submissions which is an amazing feat for me. Because I’m not from that kind of background.
John Hartnett: Going back to the subject of UFC and how they would have to market you to become a legit top contender in their organization. A lot of people have been talking about Dennis Hallman and you having to face him again in a rematch. Dennis has been talking a lot about you lately and your last title bout in WFA, explain how that fight went down.
Frank Trigg: Watch the tape; it went down the way it went down. He got kicked in the stomach and he pussed out, that’s basically what happened to him.
John Hartnett: Dennis has complained recently about the inadvertent groin shot and that the bout should have been ruled a no contest. And has said if there is a rematch this time he’s bringing a steel cup. What do you have to say about that?
Frank Trigg: Whatever. He should have worn a steel cup to begin with; I don’t know why he wasn’t wearing it the first time. The commission guys were sitting there at ringside and determined it wasn’t a groin shot at the time of the fight. He appealed the decision, and the commission board decided that it wasn’t a groin shot at the time. And I don’t know what else could be done. The commission guys were live at ringside too, they said it wasn’t, sent it back to the appeals commission on a different board, they watched the tape and watched everything that went on and they said it wasn’t. To my knowledge Larry Landless who was the ref at the time had to go to the appeal meeting and Dennis lost the appeal. So he can run his mouth as much as he wants, but the fact is that he lost twice on one fight. Three times actually if you wana take in the fact that he was sitting in the corner crying like a little girl. And I get kicked in the groin all the time, and I don’t wear a cup when I practice. I get straight kicked, catch a knee on the way down when your trying to pass somebody’s guard in the middle of a takedown, you take two or three minutes and go right back after them. If you got money on the line and supposedly he wanted the title so bad and the title was on the line five minutes is more than enough time to recuperate. He should have came out and turned it up a notch and try tobeat the piss out of me. But he didn’t, he chose to be a little girl and cry and whine and just gave up. So that’s the kind of person he is and that’s what he has to live with.
John Hartnett: What do you think of Dennis Hallman the fighter, not the person?
Frank Trigg: Well basically the way he fights is the kind of person that he is. If things can go his way and things are happily going his way he’ll stick in it and that’s the kind of person that he is. And if things get rough he looks for a way to get out, he looks for a way to duck. I guess he left Matt Hume’s academy because things were getting rough, and things were getting tough on him and he wanted to change off and go work out with Team Quest. So when things get rough and tough that’s the way he fights, he looks for a way bail out of the fight. And in his life it’s the same thing. This is the way it is, people that fight in this game as a professional, basically their personalities are the ways they fight. If they have aggressive personalities they fight aggressively. If they don’t have aggressive personalities they don’t fight aggressively. That’s just the way they are, and Dennis is one of those guys that if things are going picture perfect the way they are suppose to be going for him then he’s gonna stay in it, but if there’s a little problem a little trauma or a little pain involved, he tends to look for an exit.
John Hartnett: Now if you had to fight Dennis Hallman again, how would you approach the fight mentally and how would you approach it training wise? What would you look to do?
Frank Trigg: I’d do it the same way I did the first time. Nothing changes, he hasn’t changed and nothing is getting any better than when we fought so it’s just the same way I trained before and the same way Ill do it again.
John Hartnett: And what exactly was you game plan for the last fight?
Frank Trigg: Basically I don’t have a game plan when I go out and fight anybody. It’s just what they give me is what I take. If he wants to give me a submission, Ill take a submission. If he wants to stand up and get in the head with one twos, I’m gonna hit him in the head with one twos. If he wants to take body kicks and body shots, that’s what Im gonna give him. It’s what ever he gives me is what Im gonna take. I don’t go out there with a game plan with ok this guys gonna do this, so this is what I gotta do. Now I know that my takedowns need to be a little bit harder because he has a pretty good submission game on the way down and I know that once hes on his back he’ll try to do a bunch of submissions but like I said, he’s no where as good as the guys we train with over here as far as submission goes. We’ve got world champs that come through here all the time and they’re not catching me, so I don’t see Dennis catching me in anything. Like I said, the way I trained for him the first time is the same way Ill do it again. But then again I don’t see that fighting happening again either. Because there are just too many guys in the world at the weight to fight, whats the point in having him and I fight again. It’d actually be really anticlimactic, cause when I beat him up again they will be like, that’s what happened the first time, what the hell is the difference? It’s not gonna put any more butts in the seats, its not gonna sell any more tapes, its not gonna do anything really. Its just gonna be another anti-fight in reality.
John Hartnett: Looking forward into the future again, how much longer do you see yourself in the fight game?
Frank Trigg: I’ll fight four or five more years and I’ll be out.
John Hartnett: And after those four or five years and you get out you’ll be looking to train others?
Frank Trigg: I don’t know what I’ll do when I get out. I got a t-shirt company that releases in the fall or a clothing company rather that releases in the fall and we’ll see how that goes. I got deals with the clothing company going into Canada, its going into Switzerland, its going into the Netherlands, and its going over to Japan. That hopefully will pick up where the fighting left off.
John Hartnett: Right and what’s that clothing company going to be called?
Frank Trigg: It’s called “Trigganomics”.
John Hartnett: Trigganomics, that’s a great name.
Frank Trigg: Thank you. Its main stream athletic clothing, its not just for the fighters or the fight game. It’s main stream athletic clothing for everybody. Its going to have a dedicated women’s line, a dedicated mans line and then starting in a year or so if everything is falling in line we are going to have a dedicated kids line as well that’s strictly for the kids. It’s a demand, its from an athlete for athletes and it’s a demand for better quality athletic gear for guys who just wana compete and want to work out and stuff. You look good going to the gym, you look good training in it, and you look good coming home with it.
John Hartnett: So it would be sort of a Starter or Nike right?
Frank Trigg: Actually what it is like, we are an American Eagle and Acacrombie and Fitch kind of meet the X Games. It’s got that kind of college look to it. It’s that kind of college genre, kind of American college look to it, that’s basically what we are going for, but a little edgier and a littler more hyperactive I guess.
John Hartnett: Where would people want to go to find out more information about your clothing line?
Frank Trigg: Right now they can’t go anywhere. When we open it up, its just gonna be a mass opening, right now we are just finishing up the final designs and getting the catalogs out to all independent buyers, so they can make their orders and once the orders are in there will be a big mass blitz. The internet blitz, there will be stuff in Ultimate Athlete, Grappling and other magazines of where they can pick it up and then there will be massive adds of what we are putting out with the releases. There will be a small, small limited release in the summer and then there will be a release in the fall.
John Hartnett: And I’m sure you are gonna cover it all on FrankTrigg.com right?
Frank Trigg: Yeah, yeah it’ll be on there. Actually there will be a link to Trigganomics.tv when it gets loaded up.
John Hartnett: Wrapping things up here, any final comments, or anything you’d like to tell your fans to look out for?
Frank Trigg: Um no, I guess just keep paying attention to the promoters and see what they come up with. Right now hopefully we get some deals worked out with either PRIDE or UFC relatively soon and we’ll take it from there.
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The following interview was conducted by John Hartnett of MMANews.com:
John Hartnett: First off, how have you been keeping yourself busy since your last fight?
Frank Trigg: Been doing a couple different things. I’m getting ready to do a video deal, I’ve got an instructional manual that Ive just finished up and I’m getting ready to put out and just training and running the rAw academy.
John Hartnett: As far as this year, do you have any fights scheduled?
Frank Trigg: Nothing yet, we are working on a deal right now with PRIDE, hopefully Ill be in their June show, and their next two shows with the third one being in January in Las Vegas. Hopefully that will come through, and we are also waiting on WFA to let us know when their next event is.
John Hartnett: So you have no word from the WFA about when you’ll be defending your title?
Frank Trigg: No, I have no idea. They told me July, but they also told me it was gonna be in March before that, so who knows.
John Hartnett: How many fights would you like to get in before the end of this year?
Frank Trigg: As many as I can get. I’d like to fight six times a year but under the circumstances Ill take whatever’s left. You know, were hitting up to half way threw the year right now so if I can get three or four more in this year we’ll be ok.
John Hartnett: Looking back on your career thus far, what would you say has been your biggest challenge to date?
Frank Trigg: My toughest fight was Jean Jaques Machado.
John Hartnett: What do you think you learned from that fight?
Frank Trigg: Constant motion is the key to beating anybody. And then making sure that even if you are exhausted that you have to keep superior position, you always have to try and keep superior technique than your opponent.
John Hartnett: Looking forward into the future, who would you like to face and who do you think you’d match up well against?
Frank Trigg: I’d match up well against anybody in my mind. As far as who I’m gonna face, I could care less. Ill beat who ever they want to put me in front of. It’s all about dollars; it’s not necessarily about titles for me at this stage in the game. Whoever’s gonna pay me is the one that’s gonna get me and then whoever they put me against is who I’m gonna fight. I don’t ever turn down a fight against anybody, although I have been turned down for fights by other people who I’ve requested fights against. But I don’t turn anybody down, whoever comes up front, if all the money is correct were in it were in the ballgame.
John Hartnett: A lot of talk has been going on as you obviously know, about the UFC and who the next challenger for Matt Hughes will be, and it appears to be you are the prime candidate. What are your thoughts on that?
Frank Trigg: Well you know that’s what they’re saying on the internet, which is basically just a bunch of fourteen year old and fifteen year old kids running around saying that’s what they wana see. But the reality is that it’s not up to them its up to the UFC. And to my knowledge they’ve never contacted us about me fighting anybody let alone Matt. So I have no idea what they are going to do. And their next show is June sixth, so if they wana have me fight Matt, he’s not going to fight until their whenever, September show I guess.
John Hartnett: I think it’s in August.
Frank Trigg: Ok, so he’s not gonna fight till August, so if they are gonna have me fight him they need to have me in there first. They gotta have me fight someone else first, first there’s no way I should come in and fight Matt right away for the title, that doesn’t make any sense. We try to make this a professional sport, and to have someone come in that’s unranked in your organization and all of a sudden he shows up and he’s fighting for the title that’s ridiculous. So they have to have me fight some time before that and that’s the June sixth show, and we are looking at thirty one days from today for that event. And they haven’t contacted us at all. So I don’t see wanting me fight whoever for whatever reason I’ve discussed this before. Its not personality wise, I actually at least in my mind got along well when I met with Lorenzo. But it’s just a business decision on their part, it’s up to them. Unless they contact us there’s nothing we can do about it.
John Hartnett: So let’s say everything goes right, and everything goes as planned and you do face Matt Hughes, how would you approach that fight?
Frank Trigg: Same way I approach any other fight. I’m just gonna do what I always do, I’d out hustle him, out strength him, out power him, out technique him like I do with anybody else I fight. Pick and choose my positioning and it’s gonna be a battle of technically he thinks it’s his ring and his event as far as being the champion of the show. So it’s going to be proving him that it’s my show, my ring and my event and that it’s my belt and he’s just basically hanging on to it.
John Hartnett: A lot of people compare you guys, they say you have similar styles and some people think Hughes is stronger than you and then other people think that your more technically sound than Hughes. What do you think about Matt Hughes’ skills?
Frank Trigg: His skills have improved over the last seven years, I’m not a big tape watching guy, I don’t watch tapes of all the other fighters. When the pay-per-view shows come on, I don’t even watch most of the events. The last one, the only one I saw in the UFC was the Hughes, Sherk fight. I didn’t get to my buddies house until late cause basically I’m doing other stuff. Hes strong compared to everyone else he’s competed against but when I was competing at 76 kilos in wrestling, I was one of the strongest guys in the world at my weight and I was probably around top twenty as far as technique goes in the world and my weight as well. So as far as Matt being stronger than me, I don’t think that’s going to be possible. I’ve been gifted with the natural athletic ability to be strong and wirey and that’s just what I am. There’s just no way that pound for pound at any weight or any situation you want to put us in that Matt going to be stronger than I am. So it’s just not gonna happen. He’s defiantly more explosive than I am. And that’s to his advantage that he’s a more explosive fighter than I am, but my styles are grueling wear you down beat you up style. But then after working since my last fight very heavily on my submission game and I don’t believe I have improved that much but my instructors and my teammates say I’ve improved greatly, but that remains to be seen until my next fight where we can actually say one way or the other as to what’s improved and what hasn’t improved. Stylistically we match up very well for me, but for Matt it’s a bad match up. Because he’s not gonna be able to overpower me, he’s not going to be able to out technique me, he’s not gonna be able to out hit me. My striking is better on my feet than his is and than his were, even back in November when I last fought. I’ve improved my game since then, so it’ll be a interesting match up to say the least but as of right now, it’s a non issue because I don’t see it happening.
John Hartnett: Speaking of your instructors and your training, Matt Hughes has one of the top notch training facilities out in Iowa with the Miletech Fighting Systems….
Frank Trigg: That’s all speculation
John Hartnett: Right, and your out there with rAw out in California, what should people expect when they want to go out there and train with you guys?
Frank Trigg: Tough workouts very regulated, very structured. Unlike most other main academies through out the world our head instructors there all the time, everyday. Working us out, working out with us, you know beating us up and puts us in a situation where we know we are going to lose for a certain purpose. Like he knows that I’m not as good a submission artist as say like Fernandinho Vasconcelos or I’m not as good a guard passer as someone is so he puts me in that position where I’m not gonna win in that position and I’m completely exhausted, and that forces me to learn how to survive and how to function in a position I’m poor at and I’m not going to do very good at. And in most other academies you walk in and you don’t feel like striking for that day, you don’t feel like wrestling for that day, you don’t have to. Well in our place if there is even one thing we see that you really don’t wana do, your gonna spend the whole practice in that position, just learning how to deal with things that you don’t like to do all the time. It’s very regulated, we have practice every day at 4:30, everyone has responsibilities to the academy as well as to each other making sure things run smoothly. Everyone has to do their day to day desk work and as far as watching the desk and checking other members in and every fighter has to be here and take four group classes a week as well as taking practice. Even when your not training you have to be at practice everyday, even when you don’t have a fight coming up, you still have practice everyday.
John Hartnett: So how much do you think they have improved your skills?
Frank Trigg: Oh tremendously. I had no skills; I just had wrestling ability and the will to want to win. That’s the only thing I had when I first moved out here and since then I’ve actually learned how to pass, I’ve actually learned how to punch, I’ve actually learned how to kick, I’ve actually learned how to counter submissions, I’ve actually even learned how to do some submissions which is an amazing feat for me. Because I’m not from that kind of background.
John Hartnett: Going back to the subject of UFC and how they would have to market you to become a legit top contender in their organization. A lot of people have been talking about Dennis Hallman and you having to face him again in a rematch. Dennis has been talking a lot about you lately and your last title bout in WFA, explain how that fight went down.
Frank Trigg: Watch the tape; it went down the way it went down. He got kicked in the stomach and he pussed out, that’s basically what happened to him.
John Hartnett: Dennis has complained recently about the inadvertent groin shot and that the bout should have been ruled a no contest. And has said if there is a rematch this time he’s bringing a steel cup. What do you have to say about that?
Frank Trigg: Whatever. He should have worn a steel cup to begin with; I don’t know why he wasn’t wearing it the first time. The commission guys were sitting there at ringside and determined it wasn’t a groin shot at the time of the fight. He appealed the decision, and the commission board decided that it wasn’t a groin shot at the time. And I don’t know what else could be done. The commission guys were live at ringside too, they said it wasn’t, sent it back to the appeals commission on a different board, they watched the tape and watched everything that went on and they said it wasn’t. To my knowledge Larry Landless who was the ref at the time had to go to the appeal meeting and Dennis lost the appeal. So he can run his mouth as much as he wants, but the fact is that he lost twice on one fight. Three times actually if you wana take in the fact that he was sitting in the corner crying like a little girl. And I get kicked in the groin all the time, and I don’t wear a cup when I practice. I get straight kicked, catch a knee on the way down when your trying to pass somebody’s guard in the middle of a takedown, you take two or three minutes and go right back after them. If you got money on the line and supposedly he wanted the title so bad and the title was on the line five minutes is more than enough time to recuperate. He should have came out and turned it up a notch and try tobeat the piss out of me. But he didn’t, he chose to be a little girl and cry and whine and just gave up. So that’s the kind of person he is and that’s what he has to live with.
John Hartnett: What do you think of Dennis Hallman the fighter, not the person?
Frank Trigg: Well basically the way he fights is the kind of person that he is. If things can go his way and things are happily going his way he’ll stick in it and that’s the kind of person that he is. And if things get rough he looks for a way to get out, he looks for a way to duck. I guess he left Matt Hume’s academy because things were getting rough, and things were getting tough on him and he wanted to change off and go work out with Team Quest. So when things get rough and tough that’s the way he fights, he looks for a way bail out of the fight. And in his life it’s the same thing. This is the way it is, people that fight in this game as a professional, basically their personalities are the ways they fight. If they have aggressive personalities they fight aggressively. If they don’t have aggressive personalities they don’t fight aggressively. That’s just the way they are, and Dennis is one of those guys that if things are going picture perfect the way they are suppose to be going for him then he’s gonna stay in it, but if there’s a little problem a little trauma or a little pain involved, he tends to look for an exit.
John Hartnett: Now if you had to fight Dennis Hallman again, how would you approach the fight mentally and how would you approach it training wise? What would you look to do?
Frank Trigg: I’d do it the same way I did the first time. Nothing changes, he hasn’t changed and nothing is getting any better than when we fought so it’s just the same way I trained before and the same way Ill do it again.
John Hartnett: And what exactly was you game plan for the last fight?
Frank Trigg: Basically I don’t have a game plan when I go out and fight anybody. It’s just what they give me is what I take. If he wants to give me a submission, Ill take a submission. If he wants to stand up and get in the head with one twos, I’m gonna hit him in the head with one twos. If he wants to take body kicks and body shots, that’s what Im gonna give him. It’s what ever he gives me is what Im gonna take. I don’t go out there with a game plan with ok this guys gonna do this, so this is what I gotta do. Now I know that my takedowns need to be a little bit harder because he has a pretty good submission game on the way down and I know that once hes on his back he’ll try to do a bunch of submissions but like I said, he’s no where as good as the guys we train with over here as far as submission goes. We’ve got world champs that come through here all the time and they’re not catching me, so I don’t see Dennis catching me in anything. Like I said, the way I trained for him the first time is the same way Ill do it again. But then again I don’t see that fighting happening again either. Because there are just too many guys in the world at the weight to fight, whats the point in having him and I fight again. It’d actually be really anticlimactic, cause when I beat him up again they will be like, that’s what happened the first time, what the hell is the difference? It’s not gonna put any more butts in the seats, its not gonna sell any more tapes, its not gonna do anything really. Its just gonna be another anti-fight in reality.
John Hartnett: Looking forward into the future again, how much longer do you see yourself in the fight game?
Frank Trigg: I’ll fight four or five more years and I’ll be out.
John Hartnett: And after those four or five years and you get out you’ll be looking to train others?
Frank Trigg: I don’t know what I’ll do when I get out. I got a t-shirt company that releases in the fall or a clothing company rather that releases in the fall and we’ll see how that goes. I got deals with the clothing company going into Canada, its going into Switzerland, its going into the Netherlands, and its going over to Japan. That hopefully will pick up where the fighting left off.
John Hartnett: Right and what’s that clothing company going to be called?
Frank Trigg: It’s called “Trigganomics”.
John Hartnett: Trigganomics, that’s a great name.
Frank Trigg: Thank you. Its main stream athletic clothing, its not just for the fighters or the fight game. It’s main stream athletic clothing for everybody. Its going to have a dedicated women’s line, a dedicated mans line and then starting in a year or so if everything is falling in line we are going to have a dedicated kids line as well that’s strictly for the kids. It’s a demand, its from an athlete for athletes and it’s a demand for better quality athletic gear for guys who just wana compete and want to work out and stuff. You look good going to the gym, you look good training in it, and you look good coming home with it.
John Hartnett: So it would be sort of a Starter or Nike right?
Frank Trigg: Actually what it is like, we are an American Eagle and Acacrombie and Fitch kind of meet the X Games. It’s got that kind of college look to it. It’s that kind of college genre, kind of American college look to it, that’s basically what we are going for, but a little edgier and a littler more hyperactive I guess.
John Hartnett: Where would people want to go to find out more information about your clothing line?
Frank Trigg: Right now they can’t go anywhere. When we open it up, its just gonna be a mass opening, right now we are just finishing up the final designs and getting the catalogs out to all independent buyers, so they can make their orders and once the orders are in there will be a big mass blitz. The internet blitz, there will be stuff in Ultimate Athlete, Grappling and other magazines of where they can pick it up and then there will be massive adds of what we are putting out with the releases. There will be a small, small limited release in the summer and then there will be a release in the fall.
John Hartnett: And I’m sure you are gonna cover it all on FrankTrigg.com right?
Frank Trigg: Yeah, yeah it’ll be on there. Actually there will be a link to Trigganomics.tv when it gets loaded up.
John Hartnett: Wrapping things up here, any final comments, or anything you’d like to tell your fans to look out for?
Frank Trigg: Um no, I guess just keep paying attention to the promoters and see what they come up with. Right now hopefully we get some deals worked out with either PRIDE or UFC relatively soon and we’ll take it from there.
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