Cowboy reflects on RDA loss, in his way
“He hit me with a great liver shot and f***ing put me down. What can I say? There’s nothing. It was just a bad night. There’s nothing to reflect on. I mean, what can I say?”
MMAjunkie co-founder John Morgan recently spoke with Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone, and enquired as to whether he had reflected on his title shot loss to Rafael dos Anjos at UFC on Fox 17 on December 19, 2015.
I fired all my coaches, said Cerrone with a straight face. Fired ’em all. Started over. Headline: ‘Cowboy’ fires Greg Jackson.
For f***’s sakes, come on. No, I haven’t reflected on it.
I just didn’t show up. That was it. He hit me with a great liver shot and f***ing put me down. What can I say? There’s nothing. It was just a bad night.
There’s nothing to reflect on. I mean, what can I say? ‘Oh, maybe I didn’t warm up good enough.’ Or what, maybe the 12 seconds that the fight went, I didn’t do something good enough? I don’t understand what to reflect on. It would be different if I got mauled for five rounds. It was a 12-second fight. I got my ass whipped.
Cerrone had insult added to injury after the fight when he was fined by the UFC for violating the UFC’s Reebok Athlete Outfitting Policy. Cowboy cowboyed up.
I need to step up and own that because I wasn’t a victim, said Cerrone. It’s not like Dana and the UFC and Reebok – I wasn’t a victim.
I knew fair well that I was not allowed to wear that, and I knew I was going to get fined if I did. So I need to put that out there and say that I willingly knew I was (going to get fined), I just didn’t know it was going to be that much. You know what I’m saying? It was a lot. I figured a couple grand, sure, I’ll take the fine. It’s worth it for me. So I guess when I tweeted it out and said that Reebok took my money, it made them look guilty like I was a victim and it was their fault, when really, I knew before I did it, right? You get what I’m saying? I did it anyway, and then I got fined, and then I made it seem like, ‘Reebok’s f***ing me.’ And really, I f***ed’ myself.
Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone’s next fight is at 170 vs. Alex ‘Cowboy’ Oliveira in the main event of UFC Fight Night 83 on Feb. 21 in Pittsburgh, PA, live on FOX Sports 1.
Tune in,” said Cerrone. “It’s going down in Steeltown.
