Frank Trigg isn't looking for interesting fights. He wants title fights.
Frank Trigg is fully aware of where he is at in this stage of his career. He’s 37 years old, and sees the end of the rope.
It doesn’t, however, damper his desire to take one more crack at the UFC welterweight title, and he wants to finish his career with the UFC.
“Wouldn’t you want to end your career in the Majors?” said Trigg, who is riding a four-fight win streak. “You don’t want to end your career in the minors. … I’m at the finishing stage and I could have four, eight, 12 fights left in me.”
Trigg isn’t wasting any time in achieving that goal. He is set to take on Josh Koscheck (12-4) at UFC 103 in Dallas, Texas. Koscheck is considered one of the top 10 welterweights in the world, and he’s also looking for what Trigg hopes to get — a title shot.
Unlike his good friend and trainer Randy Couture, Trigg (19-6) isn’t about taking interesting fights. He only wants bouts that will move him up the ladder and put him in a position for a potential title shot against Georges St. Pierre — a man who had defeated Trigg during his first stint in the UFC.
“Great fights… don’t interest me. Title shots do,” Trigg said. “My goal right now is to fight the best guys in the world and at welterweight and to battle for that title shot.”
Trigg has been training with Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas to help him work on all aspects of his game.
“Xtreme Couture has been a life blood,” Trigg said. “It’s like putting a new engine in a classic car. It’s amazing.”
By watching and working with Couture, who is nine-year his elder, train with a lot of young fighters and competing with them, Trigg said it motivates him to keep pushing through the training even when he is feeling his age.
Xtreme Couture has had a strong number of guys getting ready for fights, and Trigg saw positives in having everyone be ready to work out.
“When you walk in, you have guys getting ready,” Trigg said. “It picks up the pace. If you [have] a sore, bad, tight day, having everyone training together, it lifts everyone up. You kinda get in there and that’s not so bad.”
Though he has been in the UFC and many big fights before, Trigg still admits that he gets pre-fight jitters, but it’s not a major issue and that it comes with the territory.
“You have to be nervous,” Trigg said. “I’m an old fighter. I’ve been doing this a long time. It’s another day of walking into another venue.”
Even though his deal calls for multiple fights, Trigg understands the nature of the fight business, even if it means fighting only one fight in the UFC.
“The UFC could literally bring me and shut me out or have me fight my whole contract,” he said. “It’s ok by me. It’s how things go. Sometimes you got to take what they put in front in your and it is how it works.”
