Cerrone: I feel like a caged bear poked by McGregor
Donald Cerrone: “I felt like I was an exhibit at the zoo and the cage was put up so he could poke the bear through the cage … That’s what it felt like.”
UFC lightweight Donald ‘Cerrone’ has a title fight coming up, but when asked if a media faceoff with division champion Rafael Dos Anjos got under his skin, he turned the conversation to interim feathweight champion Conor McGregor.
“That was ‘McNugget’ trying to talk to me,” said Cerrrone to the Orlando Sentinel as transcribed by David St. Martin for MMA Fighting. “When we stood face-to-face prior to that? He had nothing to say. I felt like I was an exhibit at the zoo and the cage was put up so he could poke the bear through the cage. When he was standing next to the bear he didn’t have anything to say. That’s what it felt like. I would have mauled his ass back there.”
“I don’t understand why these guys pull out of fights,” said Cerrone. “Don’t want to take fights. Only fight once a year. Maybe they’re making a lot more. Maybe they’re making ‘McGregor money.’ That’s what I need to get. Funny thing is, once you’re making McGregor money, seven million, I would still fight six times a year. Now I’m making six times … that’s just a mathematical equation that I want my right pocket as big as my left pocket.”
Donald Cerrone fight lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos at UFC on Fox 17 on December 19, 2015 at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida.