UFC: Speaking of the PI and the fun things there, you got submit Shaquille O’Neal. How did that happen?
CG: I didn’t know. When you’re in the PI, uyou’re going to meet amazing people every day. I’m all about that. I’m all about being around badass people, and that’s what you see in the PI every day. One day, I walked in to train, and Dana was at the front desk with Shaq. I was like, ‘Whoa. Wow. Alright, interesting.’ Then I had my training session with my team and my coaches, and then I went downstairs and went to the rehab room, and Dana was like, ‘Hey, Claudia. I need you for something.’ I was like, ‘What?’ He was like, ‘I need you to choke out this dude.’ I was like, ‘What dude?’ He was like, ‘Shaq.’ I was like, ‘He’s 400 pounds. Are you kidding me? I just trained. I’m tired.’ He was like, ‘Come on, let’s go. You can do this.’ And you know, Dana is always like that motivator. He made me feel good, so I went upstairs, and he was doing a submission, no-gi grappling with Forrest Griffin, and after that I just jumped in, and he was so tired. That’s why I grabbed him by the neck and was like, ‘You’re not going nowhere.’ It was fun.
