Mauro Ranallo har intervjuat den legendariske strikingcoachen Shawn Tompkins som jobbat med Vitor Belfort tidigare inför sin match mot Anderson Silva. Maurilo frågade Shawn:
What about Vitor Belfort? I know that you were helping him prepare for his fight against Anderson Silva. Now, he’s at Xtreme Couture, your former home base (and there has been) talk of him recruiting Mike Tyson to help him prepare for Anderson Silva. What is your relationship with Belfort and why won’t you be in his corner?
Svaret är intressant. Shawn Tompkins är sällan den som snackar strunt, så man får anta att det ligger något i det han påstår om Vitor i alla fall:
Well, you know, Vitor has done this before. Vitor sometimes, he gets a little clouded in his head. It’s not that he brought in Mike Tyson or anything like that. Vitor just wanders, you know, and he goes where, you know, what’s happening, what’s famous, what’s popular and he’ll go over there and Mike Tyson isn’t teaching him anything. Neither is the other eight gyms that he’s training at. Just because he’s over at Couture’s and not with me doesn’t mean he’s with Couture’s. Vitor isn’t loyal to anybody. We’ve seen it before.
