Post by Clown Skruggs on May 13, 2009 18:05:14 GMT -5
IMMAF Magazine recently contacted newly signed IMMAF Middleweight Clown Skruggs for an interview, he obliged and we sat down with him. We asked him a few questions, and honestly, what a character. But don't take our word for it, check him out for yourself ....
Welcome, and thanks for allowing us the time to interview you, Mister Skruggs, it's a pleasure to meet you.
Clown Skruggs: Thanks man, it's a real pleasure to be here, I appreciate it.
Not a problem, now let's drop the vernacular, and get right down to brass tax, shall we?
Clown Skruggs: ... Yeah ... sure ... ?
Alrighty then, first off I want to ask you about your umm ... unique ... image, so to speak. Tell me about it ...
Clown Skruggs: Shit man, whats there to say? Once you get this public image, you gots to roll with it, know what I mean? I was always the clown, but not in the way that most people look at'em. Most either see them as circus freaks, or funny guys. I was the bastard that scared the shit out of people, before a fight I always down-played on their greatest fears. The shit worked, most of the time anyways ... (laughs)
Haha, yeah I can relate to that ... Now when you say before a fight, does this mean you've had experience in Mixed Martial Arts before? And if so I'd like to hear about it ...
Clown Skruggs: Oh hell yeah, I've fought in small venue's all over the country, for practically nothing. I've fought in the ameature ranks, and compiled a record of about, 74-11. So in the last five years, I've fought eighty five times. In MMA alone, not counting the ameature boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, scene. I take any fight they throw at me. And all of my wins are by knockout. I've never won a fight on the judges score cards. But I got my real start in pit fighting, thats my first love, old school bar smokers, and barn brawls, shit like that ... I love a hella-wicked slugfest.
Wow, you are quite the experienced scrapper, and I hear you've got a chin of steel. But I've got to ask, who was your toughest opponent? In any venue, whether in MMA, Boxing, Kickboxing, Pitfighting ...
Clown Skruggs: To tell you the honest to shit truth, the baddest motherfuckers I've ever had the pleasure to throw hands with were the pit fighters on the underground scene. I took some massive beatings in those, since I was a young kid of about twelve, or thirteen. I always fought two or three times, maybe even four or five times a night, for about seventeen years now. And truthfully, I've lost more than I've won. I usually fought about eighteen hundred something fights a year ... It's a fucking miracle I'm still alive ... Try doing that shit for seventeen years. I have roughly 31, 025 fights under my belt, and I've only won about half of them. Shit was brutal back in the day. But the toughest guy I fought, I fought when I was around twenty-two years old. Dude was about five foot ten, a buck fifty soaking wet.
You're considerably bigger than he at six foot three, one eighty five ... ?
Clown Skruggs: Yeah I was quite a bit bigger than him, he still pretty much whooped my ass ... I literally thought I was going to die that night. He was small, wirey as fuck, fast, and hit harder than most heavyweights ... and I been hit by me some heavyweights ... They hit like bitches compared to this cat, who was about forty six at the time. But he had no problem jumpin' the gun and stopping my ass in my tracks. We slugged it out for ten or fifteen minutes before the little shit went down with a knee straight to the chops. I remember raising my hands, and then falling into the crowd. Peeps swarmed around us, to make sure we weren't dead. I was breathing heavy, panting more or less ... Bleeding from my nose, my ears, my mouth ... six of my knuckles and two of my ribs were broken. My left knee was swollen from hitting him so hard so many times ... It was crazy shit, you can actually find the video of the fight floating around the net ...
Oh my word, that must've been an intense fight ... I'll have to check it out when I get back to the office. Tell me about your style, on your resume you state that you are a practioner of a martial art called; ... 'Grinfucked?' Whats that all about?
Clown Skruggs: It's my own twist on Muay Thai, shit is sick man I'm tellin' you. But you'll see why when I fight. Which I hope will be sometime soon, and I mean damn soon. I ain't fought in like four weeks. It's like a crack addiction, you just can't shake it.
Sounds interesting, would you like to share your principles with us? I mean, you are the founder of the martial art. You should have some basic values to go by with it ...
Clown Skruggs: Strike fast, strike hard. Kill that motherfucker before he has a chance to kill you. If anyone gives you lip, give'em a three fingered tracheotomy, Roadhouse style.
That's ... interesting. What are the basic moves in your umm ... style?
Clown Skruggs: Basic boxing, with kicks, knees, elbows, whatever is needed to end the fight quickly. But when you get a badass opponent, it makes for an exciting match. Because sparks will fly, and I don't rely on defense at all, so you know somebody is getting knocked the fuck out.
Is there a particular brand you'd like to fight on? And if so, who on that brand would you like to fight?
Clown Skruggs: I'll fight whoever, whenever, wherever, any time, any place, I'll knock the shit out of anybody and everybody I fight.
Clown, thanks for the interview, I'll see you next time on IMMAF Magaine. Anything else you'd like to say?
Clown Skruggs: Yeah, I want to say to the bookers, I'll fight as many times a night as possible. I'm the only guy you'll find anywhere willing to fight more than once a night. I don't care, please, just let this man fight!
Take it easy ladies and gentleman ...
Welcome, and thanks for allowing us the time to interview you, Mister Skruggs, it's a pleasure to meet you.
Clown Skruggs: Thanks man, it's a real pleasure to be here, I appreciate it.
Not a problem, now let's drop the vernacular, and get right down to brass tax, shall we?
Clown Skruggs: ... Yeah ... sure ... ?
Alrighty then, first off I want to ask you about your umm ... unique ... image, so to speak. Tell me about it ...
Clown Skruggs: Shit man, whats there to say? Once you get this public image, you gots to roll with it, know what I mean? I was always the clown, but not in the way that most people look at'em. Most either see them as circus freaks, or funny guys. I was the bastard that scared the shit out of people, before a fight I always down-played on their greatest fears. The shit worked, most of the time anyways ... (laughs)
Haha, yeah I can relate to that ... Now when you say before a fight, does this mean you've had experience in Mixed Martial Arts before? And if so I'd like to hear about it ...
Clown Skruggs: Oh hell yeah, I've fought in small venue's all over the country, for practically nothing. I've fought in the ameature ranks, and compiled a record of about, 74-11. So in the last five years, I've fought eighty five times. In MMA alone, not counting the ameature boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, scene. I take any fight they throw at me. And all of my wins are by knockout. I've never won a fight on the judges score cards. But I got my real start in pit fighting, thats my first love, old school bar smokers, and barn brawls, shit like that ... I love a hella-wicked slugfest.
Wow, you are quite the experienced scrapper, and I hear you've got a chin of steel. But I've got to ask, who was your toughest opponent? In any venue, whether in MMA, Boxing, Kickboxing, Pitfighting ...
Clown Skruggs: To tell you the honest to shit truth, the baddest motherfuckers I've ever had the pleasure to throw hands with were the pit fighters on the underground scene. I took some massive beatings in those, since I was a young kid of about twelve, or thirteen. I always fought two or three times, maybe even four or five times a night, for about seventeen years now. And truthfully, I've lost more than I've won. I usually fought about eighteen hundred something fights a year ... It's a fucking miracle I'm still alive ... Try doing that shit for seventeen years. I have roughly 31, 025 fights under my belt, and I've only won about half of them. Shit was brutal back in the day. But the toughest guy I fought, I fought when I was around twenty-two years old. Dude was about five foot ten, a buck fifty soaking wet.
You're considerably bigger than he at six foot three, one eighty five ... ?
Clown Skruggs: Yeah I was quite a bit bigger than him, he still pretty much whooped my ass ... I literally thought I was going to die that night. He was small, wirey as fuck, fast, and hit harder than most heavyweights ... and I been hit by me some heavyweights ... They hit like bitches compared to this cat, who was about forty six at the time. But he had no problem jumpin' the gun and stopping my ass in my tracks. We slugged it out for ten or fifteen minutes before the little shit went down with a knee straight to the chops. I remember raising my hands, and then falling into the crowd. Peeps swarmed around us, to make sure we weren't dead. I was breathing heavy, panting more or less ... Bleeding from my nose, my ears, my mouth ... six of my knuckles and two of my ribs were broken. My left knee was swollen from hitting him so hard so many times ... It was crazy shit, you can actually find the video of the fight floating around the net ...
Oh my word, that must've been an intense fight ... I'll have to check it out when I get back to the office. Tell me about your style, on your resume you state that you are a practioner of a martial art called; ... 'Grinfucked?' Whats that all about?
Clown Skruggs: It's my own twist on Muay Thai, shit is sick man I'm tellin' you. But you'll see why when I fight. Which I hope will be sometime soon, and I mean damn soon. I ain't fought in like four weeks. It's like a crack addiction, you just can't shake it.
Sounds interesting, would you like to share your principles with us? I mean, you are the founder of the martial art. You should have some basic values to go by with it ...
Clown Skruggs: Strike fast, strike hard. Kill that motherfucker before he has a chance to kill you. If anyone gives you lip, give'em a three fingered tracheotomy, Roadhouse style.
That's ... interesting. What are the basic moves in your umm ... style?
Clown Skruggs: Basic boxing, with kicks, knees, elbows, whatever is needed to end the fight quickly. But when you get a badass opponent, it makes for an exciting match. Because sparks will fly, and I don't rely on defense at all, so you know somebody is getting knocked the fuck out.
Is there a particular brand you'd like to fight on? And if so, who on that brand would you like to fight?
Clown Skruggs: I'll fight whoever, whenever, wherever, any time, any place, I'll knock the shit out of anybody and everybody I fight.
Clown, thanks for the interview, I'll see you next time on IMMAF Magaine. Anything else you'd like to say?
Clown Skruggs: Yeah, I want to say to the bookers, I'll fight as many times a night as possible. I'm the only guy you'll find anywhere willing to fight more than once a night. I don't care, please, just let this man fight!
Take it easy ladies and gentleman ...
