Jake Shields and Jason Miller Discuss Their Fight On Saturday

Posted by Larry Csonka on 11.06.2009

See what the middleweight title contenders have to say...



Jake Shields and Jason Mille both spoke at today's Strikeforce and M-1 Global press conference, here are the highlights…

Jake Shields: "I am just looking for good fights. I think Miller was the fight that makes sense. I am willing to go up in weight. I am not that small. People forget, I cut a lot of weight (to make 170). People make too big of a deal about the weight. I'm not going to use that as an excuse. Win or lose I am ready to fight and I don't think weight is going to be a factor.

"I fight because I want to keep myself interested in the challenge. If it is not interesting, there's no point in doing it any more. It is exciting for me to bounce between the weights. Right now I'm worried about going up and staying up, but who knows what the future holds if they find a good opponent in the ‘70s. Right now I am not worried too much about that. I am just looking at one fight at a time, but it does keep it interesting for me.

"I am taking it one fight at a time, but most likely I'll take another fight at 185. My weight is up right now and obviously I'm willing to drop back down, but I wouldn't want to go up and down every other fight. That makes it difficult. Really, I'm just worried about getting through Miller and see what happens from there."

Jason Miller: "(Referring to Shields' winning streak) All good things come to an end. It is an amazing streak that Shields has put together. I am proud to be guy standing across the cage from him on Saturday night.

"I don' think I'm going too overboard [in the spotlight]. My goal is to provide entertainment for the CBS viewers. If they just want to watch a bar fight they can go to their local brew house. I am going to try to perform so that everybody is talking – that includes walking to the stage, and all the way to the post-fight press conference.

"I think people think because I am on TV every minute that I am standing in front of a camera every minute. Honestly, Bully Beatdown takes about two weeks to film and then they just replay it nonstop. Everyone thinks I live inside the box in their living room. It is not true. I actually walk around and do things outside of that.

"As far as marketing goes, you stick me in front of a camera and a microphone and I am going to blah, blah, blah and hopefully you are going to either want to watch me get me teeth knocked out or knock somebody's head off. Part of my job is standing in a cage and beating somebody up, but the other part of my job is to make sure that you care about the fact that I am going to do it."