with the 2008 US Olympic team, understood just what kind of competitor I was. I am obsessively competitive and always have been. You can’t be the best unless you beat the best, and honestly, to me that meant the perceived best having to beat me. I’d been playing out fights with longtime UFC welterweight Georges St-Pierre in my head for years. I contemplated on an endless loop just what a great foil I would make for then-champion Johny Hendricks, a rival whom I actively disliked since wrestling against him in high school.
