At this point, you can pretty much just throw any question at Danny Sabatello — tell us about your opponent, how do you see the fight playing out, what’s your favorite ice cream flavor? — and get a profanity-laden response.
The Bellator x RIZIN 2 bantamweight has a “colorful” vocabulary to say the least, and that was on full display during the event’s media day in Tokyo, Japan. Sabatello faces Magomed Magomedov at the event at the Saitama Super Arena.
Asked by Cageside Press about taking fights personally, Sabatello exclaimed that “a lot of fighters say that this isn’t personal because a lot of fighters are f*cking p*ssies. I’m not a p*ssy so this sh*t is personal to me. I’m going to be locked inside of a cage where a guy is trying to take away my goals and my dreams, trying to put my head into another galaxy.”
“Yeah… That’s going to be a little bit f*cking personal to me.”
“The Italian Gangster” wasn’t done there, not by a long shot. “I don’t really give a sh*t about what the other fighters say, I’m not like any of these other f*cking fighters, that’s why I’m so different. Whether you like me or don’t like me, I don’t really give a f*ck. That’s just how I am. But that is also another reason why I am very successful, because I have a different train of thought going on upstairs. And that’s kind of the reason why I shine, because this is personal to me.”
“I’m going to do whatever it takes that I can in this fifteen minutes to get the job done, no matter what. And I know with my preparation at the best gym in the world, at American Top Team, and my dedication, I am better than this f*cking guy.”
“With everything being said, I should go in there and I should f*ck this guy up,” Sabatello finished, before adding “And I hope this translator is swearing over there.”
It’s Japan. The most polite society on earth. We’re pretty sure they weren’t translating all that cursing. But Sabatello, colorful as always, has a fun fight lined up at Bellator x RIZIN 2 against Magomedov this Saturday (Sunday, July 30 local time) — and that should translate in any language.
