The Chicago Boxing Club located off Halsted street in Chicago was sweltering hot and smelled like the assembled media, so I decided to cool off outside and think about what could very well be my final moments on earth. Zeus always makes me ask really, really difficult questions. Questions about race and God. Questions that I, a stressed and very nerdy looking white guy, never wants to ask anyone. Let alone a high caliber professional martial artist. A few years ago it was the whole incident with Hector Lombard and his thought on thanking God and what he expects out of the afterlife.

That interview will never be published.

Now as the steam rose off my body, I knew that I had the mission to ask Phil Davis his thoughts on what thousands of Twitterites joke about every MMA broadcast-the announcers calling someone 'explosive' and 'naturally athletic' when they really just mean 'black athlete'. I didn't want to do this. I skipped breakfast and wanted oatmeal, badly. But Zeus texted me saying Phil Davis and someone from MiddleEasy discussed the 'explosive' subject with the undefeated fighter back in 2010, and Phil wanted announcers to stop saying it, so I should follow up with him.

I don't think Phil remembered that discussion from 2010, but he met my question with a jovial response not expected from a dude who I would assume to be hungry from cutting weight and tired from incessant media. Turns out Phil Davis is probably one of the nicer dudes I've met recently, he has a winning smile in my opinion. Explosive, athletic, Phil just wants to be called Phil now, and he doesn't mind when people mistake him for Bones Jones.

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+12 # Guest 2012-01-26 09:52

lmao he looks super stoned in that screen cap of the video

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+3 # Guest 2012-01-26 10:30

Quoting hrmph:

lmao he looks super stoned in that screen cap of the video

psst M.E. if you can do this again do it lol can you imagine a page of mma stars looking like they got out of a hotbox.

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+11 # synthsis 2012-01-26 09:57

If Davis and Guillard are ever on the same card and we play the "explosive drinking game" I'll die.

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+11 # Guest 2012-01-26 11:03

Quoting synthsis:

If Davis and Guillard are ever on the same card and we play the "explosive drinking game" I'll die.

If you play that game and Guillard gets out of the first round you might want to call the ambulance while still conscious.

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+3 # Guest 2012-01-26 10:06

cool guy

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+1 # Guest 2012-01-26 11:33

Nice job trying to put words into his mouth. You can literally see his expression change from 0:10-0:20. Also nice job by Phil in not answering the question that was asked but the question he wanted to answer.

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+1 # Guest 2012-01-26 12:45

"I guarantee you'll be the first one to take a shot cause I'm going to put my hands on you worse than that dude did them other kids at Penn State."

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+1 # Yoshinegro_Blackiyama 2012-01-26 13:33

Phil Davis is obviously B.O.B in disguise

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-7 # Guest 2012-01-26 14:57

About time he got rid of homo shorts.

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+4 # Guest 2012-01-27 03:18

I'm sure you'll be saying the same stupidity when someone in your family is diagnosed with some form of cancer. Pink = Cancer awareness, dickhead.

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0 # Guest 2012-01-27 03:19

Phil Davis is the only guy I see posing any kind of threat to that freak of a man, Jonny Bones. WAR DAVIS.

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0 # Tha Premiere 2012-01-27 05:57

Question: Deflected.

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