Rich Franklin is the ex middleweight Champion of the UFC. He was also the recipient of some nasty knee-work by Anderson Silva. Regardless, the man is intelligent and knows how to hold a decent conversation. His Interview at MaxFighting is extremely interesting and worth the read.
Here are some highlights of the interview:
2005 and 2006 were very, very busy years for me. They're probably, almost, wasn't a weekend that I wasn't out of town. I had a stretch last year in 2006 where I went to Iraq, Las Vegas for about a week and a half, and just did a bunch of other stuff. Before I went to Iraq I was in El Paso and I also went to New Mexico to visit some Army and Air Force bases there and I would say over a 35 day period I was probably home maybe four of those days.
It doesn't really matter where I go, I am going to get a decent fighter in this weight class. No matter what my options are there are going to be some sort of challenges out there for me. MacDonald is going to potentially be problematic on the ground and Swick is good on his feet so I have another striker I am contending with. Not to take anything from Swick being a well rounded fighter. We all know that he is good on the ground as well.