Pretty funny stuff here from Sam Stout where he claims that he "came to fight" and Makdessi was "running the whole time"...
"He wasn't fighting," Stout told MMAmania.com moments after his defeat. "He was running the whole time. I wanted to fight, I came to fight and I didn't get the fight I wanted."
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"I usually like to come out and put on an exciting fight and it takes two guys to do that, to do those kinds of fights," Stout explained. "And you know John, he ran, he kept on moving the whole time and I was expecting him to fight me a little more."
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f"All the other fights of John's we watched, he pressed forward the whole time, so we were looking to get in his face and get in a fight," Stout said. "I'll give him credit, he kind of did that to me. He, you know, ran and ran and ran and then timed when he wanted to land a jab and wasn't -- he didn't really do anything that I thought was very, nothing devastating. A couple jabs in the face, nothing that really hurt me. You know, obviously I got a little lumped up, but yeah
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Steph Daniels at BloodyElbow got in contact with Makdessi who claimed that guys training in the same gym as him were spying on him for Stout. He also points out that he was using footwork, not running, and taking advantage of Stouts rookie mistakes...
You know, I showed him a lot of respect before and after the fight. People don't even realize two of his closest friends, Chris Horodecki and some other guy, were training at TriStar the whole time I was. I kept my cool and didn't say anything, and was respectful to those guys, too, even though they were probably spying. The whole time I was in training camp, they were eyeballing me. My guys were telling me, 'These guys keep looking at you man.' You know what, they could look all they want. I didn't really care. I mean, one of the guys I was training with ended up cornering him. I'm not stupid. I knew that guy was probably going to go back and tell him some tips as to how I trained. I was just focused on what I had to do with my own gameplan.
There's a difference between running and footwork. If I was running away, I would have never been able to hit him back. If you watched the fight closely, every time he got aggressive, the more I kept countering. Everything he gave me, I countered. For me, it's all about footwork. He would lead with his head the whole time. It's one of the biggest errors in boxing. It's an amateur mistake. They teach you to never lead with your head, but that's what he kept doing, leading with his head. I've never connected with so many punches before in my life, as I did with this guy [laughs]. It's unfortunate that he looks at it as running around, but pictures and video are louder than words, and if you review the pictures and videos, you'll see his head popping back every time I threw something his way.
Regardless of all that, I still have respect for Sam. There was even a time I had him hurt, and I stepped back momentarily. My corner got all over me about that. I gave him time to breathe. I highly respect the guy. He's an amazing veteran of the game. He's fought the best guys in the world at 155. This was my biggest win.
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