Chris Howie Reporting:
The call today featured IFL Middleweight Champion Matt Horwich who will be facing Ryan McGivern next weekend in a MW title bout.
-IFL treats their fighters well. Horwich is happy to be making nearly 20 times more than what he was usually making.
-Horwich is getting married the day after this fight.
-will train with Xtreme Couture while in Las Vegas.
-Has been training with Matt Lindland and Chael Sonnen to help him and all the other fighters out of Team Quest.
-Was stoked to get the victory over Benji Radich in December. Was a really special night for him. In a humorous note he says he always promised his friends back home he would bring them back a middleweight so it was great to bring the belt home and wear it around on New Years
-Feels he has improved his Jiu-Jitsu and striking a lot since the last time he face McGivern
-His favorite coach he has is Matt Linland.
-In their first match he felt he had some strong stand up but he didn't have a strong sense of urgency to get back up and felt he could submit him from guard. This time he'll have that sense.
-Feels he is blessed to be way better than he was in the past.
-Horwich puts over McGivern's talents and how well his training camp is. He is honored to be fighting with him again.
-When he is training with Mario Sperry he wants to learn some transitions from guard
-Talks about Randy being a great guy.
-He studies a lot of tape and such on great strikers so that he can learn from the best.
-Talks about watching tapes on Matt Lindland, Randy Couture, Cro-Cop, BJ Penn, and a lot of K-1 Fighters.
-Talks about going to other schools such as Bj Penn's, Chuck Liddell's and John Hacklemans and going to the other Team Quest school Dan Henderson runs.
