Baroni taking a break, not commited to any fight
33-year-old welterweight Phil Baroni is in Hawaii and planning to take time off from competition to rest and evaluate a…
33-year-old welterweight Phil Baroni is in Hawaii and planning to take time off from competition to rest and evaluate a new approach to MMA.
Baroni, speaking exclusively to MMAWeekly.com on Tuesday, said he is still not physically healthy after a decision loss to Amir Sadollah last month at UFC 106, his first UFC appearance after a four-year hiatus from the Octagon.
Despite several reports, Baroni said he has not agreed to fight Marcus Davis at UFC 111 on March 27 in Newark, N.J.
Big changes were in store, he assured.
“I can’t keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results,” Baroni said.
How long it would take before he was ready to fight, he didn’t know.
“I haven’t had fun training in a long time,” he said. “A lot of people were asking me, ‘how does it feel to be back in the UFC?’ I was like, no different. Just like any other fight. At this point in my life, it’s just become my job. That’s the problem. It’s like punching the time clock to go train. It’s not fun at all. It hasn’t been fun at all. It’s just been miserable. I’ve just got to find fun and be happy. Not to just feel like I have to go train….(expletive) that.”
