XFC lightweight Scott Holtzman is a fan of fighters who do their talking in the ring – guys like Benson Henderson and Georges St-Pierre (though he has mixed feelings about the latter’s style). But Nick Newell , he told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio), falls into the category of the guys who talk outside the cage – guys like Nick Diaz . “I would see him at weigh-ins, and I just didn’t like how he carried himself,” Holtzman said of Newell, a would-be opponent before the reigning lightweight champion left the XFC for the World Series of Fighting. “It was a fight I wanted for a few reasons. I thought he was a bit cocky and arrogant. I didn’t like how he walked around mean-mugging everybody. “But that’s just a personal thing. Obviously, he’s got a lot of fans out there, and I don’t have anything too negative to say about him as a fighter.
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