Nate Marquardt Talks About MMA's Heavyweights

Nate Marquardt just made a case for him jumping the line to take Dan Henderson's place as the next challenger to Anderson Silva's middleweight throne. But he wasn't too busy to talk to me and heavy.com about the upcoming fight between his teammate Shane Carwin and Brock Lesnar.
"I think it's a great fight. I'm very excited about it," Marquardt said. "People have seen so little of Shane. His cardio has been called into question and his resiliance. But that's just because he finishes guys so fast. What they don't know is that this guy is an endurance machine. He can go for days and he has power until the last second. That's knockout power. He's got great wrestling and was a national champion. He moves well on his feet and has a lot of boxing experience. And he has the hardest ground and pound, the hardest punch of any kind that I've ever seen. The guy can hit you with a half speed punch and just completely rock you. The guy touches you and he's going to knock you out."
Marquardt also had plenty to say about former teammate Bobby Lashley, a man he doesn't think is serious about the sport. He also said Lashley, who is back in professional wrestling with TNA, isn't ready for top competition.
"I train with two of the best heavyweights in the world, Shane Carwin and Brendan Schaub. And he's not anywhere near them," Marquardt said. Then he laughed, but suddenly his eyes got very serious. "I've trained with Bobby a couple of times and for some reason he doesn't have a loyalty to our team. I've kind of written him off. I'm loyal to my guys."
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![Forrest Griffin on losing to Anderson Silva and possibly fighting Jon Jones:
Forrest - "I hope I'm not fighting Jon "Bones" Jones. I might be. Fuck it; if I am, I am. I'll do it, but I'm not even training right now. That's a bad dude. That dude wil' whup my ass. Fuck it. What's the worst...I mean, it couldn't be worse than Anderson Silva. It shouldn't be worse than that, right? Every fight I go into, no matter what happens, it couldn't be worse than Anderson Silva," Griffin pointed out. "'Cos that shit was a year ago and literally every day people ask me something about that. 'What happened...What happened?' You want to know what happened? It's on page 23 [of my new book] if you need to know. Check it out."
Ellis - "He punched you in the chin."
Forrest - "Repeatedly. And I was very confused. I tried to punch him and he literally moved his head out of the way and looked at me like I was stupid for doing it. He looked at me like, 'Why would you do such a stupid thing?' He looked at me like, 'Oh, did you really think you were going to hit me? What a stupid thing to think you slow, slow white boy,' and then he punched me. I felt embarrassed for even trying to punch him. I felt like some kid trying to wrestle with his dad."](http://cdn1.sbnation.com/fan_shot_images/139048/2_small.jpg)












