05.06.2018, 19:36
Joseph Benavidez, der nach 18 Monaten Verletzungspause bei UFC 225 am Samstag gegen Sergio Pettis in einem Top Flyweight Fight antritt ist nicht gluecklich darueber das sein Fight bei den Prelims (Fight Pass) stattfinden wird:
“Just the fact that you asked that answers the question – they’re definitely snubbing the flyweights. No other person, in any division in the UFC with a No. 1 ranking by their name and six wins in a row would be buried in Fight Pass. Not a main event, not kicking off the card, just buried in Fight Pass. You answered your own question.
What other theory is there to have besides that they are snubbing us or it’s something personal toward me or the flyweight division? Those are the only real options left, because that wouldn’t happen to any other person in any other division.
It’s just – you want to be respected by your bosses and obviously your peers and stuff. So that’s more the disappointing part. It’s just like everything you’ve put in you just almost feel disrespected and definitely under appreciated. … I guess another disappointing part, like I was mentioning the fans, they can’t just turn on their TV – my family, my friends, everyone who wants to see me. Some people don’t have Fight Pass.
Some people, honestly, as simple as it sounds, aren’t going to login and put in all their information to get a fight on Fight Pass. I mean, they’re just not going to do it. Yeah, so that’s kind of disappointing, when you talk to people and they’re like, ‘Sick, it’s on PPV.’ And you’re like, ‘No, it’s on this app called Fight Pass.’ And they’re like, ‘Ugh, never heard of it. How do I get it?’
I think honestly a little bit of both. I know it’s also the division. I know it’s a little bit because of the division, but it makes me think it’s because of me, as well. And I could just be making that up, but just other instances throughout that past that have made me think that, as well, so I think it’s a little of both.
It might be Demetrious and whoever makes the decision, right, at the top – but it’s everyone’s fault. I take a lot of the blame for that. Because I should have been the one to beat him. I was the one expected to beat him even when the tournament happened at the very beginning. … I was kind of expected to win that, coming from bantamweight and everything, and it didn’t work out. Had another chance and screwed that up, so it’s everybody.
It’s everybody in the division. And it’s easy, I think, for the masses to look at Demetrious because he’s kind of the face of the division, but who else do you think of when you think of the flyweight division? Me, right? And I haven’t done what I should have done to bring the division to the forefront, either. So I take a lot of blame for that, actually.”
“Just the fact that you asked that answers the question – they’re definitely snubbing the flyweights. No other person, in any division in the UFC with a No. 1 ranking by their name and six wins in a row would be buried in Fight Pass. Not a main event, not kicking off the card, just buried in Fight Pass. You answered your own question.
What other theory is there to have besides that they are snubbing us or it’s something personal toward me or the flyweight division? Those are the only real options left, because that wouldn’t happen to any other person in any other division.
It’s just – you want to be respected by your bosses and obviously your peers and stuff. So that’s more the disappointing part. It’s just like everything you’ve put in you just almost feel disrespected and definitely under appreciated. … I guess another disappointing part, like I was mentioning the fans, they can’t just turn on their TV – my family, my friends, everyone who wants to see me. Some people don’t have Fight Pass.
Some people, honestly, as simple as it sounds, aren’t going to login and put in all their information to get a fight on Fight Pass. I mean, they’re just not going to do it. Yeah, so that’s kind of disappointing, when you talk to people and they’re like, ‘Sick, it’s on PPV.’ And you’re like, ‘No, it’s on this app called Fight Pass.’ And they’re like, ‘Ugh, never heard of it. How do I get it?’
I think honestly a little bit of both. I know it’s also the division. I know it’s a little bit because of the division, but it makes me think it’s because of me, as well. And I could just be making that up, but just other instances throughout that past that have made me think that, as well, so I think it’s a little of both.
It might be Demetrious and whoever makes the decision, right, at the top – but it’s everyone’s fault. I take a lot of the blame for that. Because I should have been the one to beat him. I was the one expected to beat him even when the tournament happened at the very beginning. … I was kind of expected to win that, coming from bantamweight and everything, and it didn’t work out. Had another chance and screwed that up, so it’s everybody.
It’s everybody in the division. And it’s easy, I think, for the masses to look at Demetrious because he’s kind of the face of the division, but who else do you think of when you think of the flyweight division? Me, right? And I haven’t done what I should have done to bring the division to the forefront, either. So I take a lot of blame for that, actually.”