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This weeks “5 Questions With” we ask UFC Welterweight fighter Marcus “The Irish Hand Grenade” Davis 5 MMA related questions.

Q. When did you get started into mixed martial arts & why?

A. My family is filled with men who were fighters, boxers, my grand father Kenneth MacKinnon (adopted by the Thayers), was a very good boxer and was very popular in his time where I grew up so I heard stories all the time about him so I knew I wanted to be a fighter. Well I started training in traditional martial arts at age 8 (1981) I then started boxing in 1985 had my first AM fight in 1987. Turned PRO in boxing 1993. I watched the very first UFC the night it aired. I remember I was over to my brothers house and we watched it on his TV and I thought it was fake. In 1995 I was living in Boston and found a BJJ place and that was my first experience with learning that the ground was a scary place for those that were uneducated. With all that said I believe I was always a type of mixed martial artist but didn’t truly become a well rounded one in my opinion till 2006.

Q. What was your worst injury?

A. Actually its a toss up. In a boxing match I had almost all my facial bones broke- cheek, orbital, nose, all from repetitive head buts. But It probably goes to the Joe Stevenson fight on TUF2. See when he slammed me to the mat I had stuck my arm out and when I landed my shoulder separated and damaged all the tissue in and around my AC joint and my clavicle. Because of that I will always have impingement syndrome and bursitis. I deal with it about twice a year and its painful and really disrupts any type of training.

Q. What was you most memorable fight and why?

A. Obviously the Lytle fight. First I had the flue, badly. The night before the weight in I was in my bed sweating and running to the bathroom every few minutes. Mark Dellagrotte got some EMT’s in the room and they called a doctor who then was trying to stop the fight. So come fight day Mark had told me after the fight that he felt when we were walking to the octagon he was walking me to my execution. Fighting in Dublin has to be every Irish American fighters dream and I got to do it. I never hear anything other than Marks voice when I fight but that night I could hear the crowd signing the fields of athenry. Was a very emotional night for me.

Q. If you could fight anyone in the cage who would it be with and why?

A. Now I really don’t know. Back when Gomi was hot in Japan I thought that would have been a great fight for me. I spoke about wanting to be his first fight in the UFC and I was willing to go to 165 if needed but Kenny got him and its funny that Kenny used boxing, really the jab, to beat him down till he finished him.

Q. What has been the highlight of your career?

A. UFC 93 Dublin at the O2

A message from Marcus.

To anyone and everyone supporting me I truly mean it when I say thank you. Thank you for your support of me and just for supporting MMA the sport.

Fighthounds.com wold like to thank Marcus for taking the time out to be apart of “5 Questions With” and wish him the best of luck in hes upcoming fight with Nate Diaz at UFC 118 (28/Aug/2010)