Guillard: I’m an A-list fighter in the B league
Melvin Guillard: “It was almost like a fraternity of only guys good enough to be in the UFC. It doesn’t feel like that anymore.”
This week UFC veteran Melvin Guillard fights Justin Gaethje in the co-main event of World Series of Fighting 15 in Tampa, Florida. Guillard believes that Gaethje won’t be a challenge for him and continued to rant about the quality of fighters now in the UFC as well:
“Gaethje is nowhere near my level.” Guillard emphatically stated. “I’m an A list fighter, fighting in the B league.”
When asked to clarify whether or not he hopes to return to the Octagon someday, Guillard noted that being a UFC fighter is not as special as it was back in 2005.
“I consider myself to be a hybrid, and there a lot of hybrids in the UFC, but there are also a lot of fakes in the UFC now too. I remember back in ’05 it was difficult to get in the UFC. Even off The Ultimate Fighter it was tough. Out of the 16 guys on my season, a lot of guys never got their chance in the UFC afterwards.”
“Now it seems they are just throwing any and everybody in the UFC,” Guillard continued. “They are giving everybody a chance to be a UFC fighter. I wanted to be a UFC fighter when I was 13 years old, but it felt like a special group of guys back then. It was almost like a fraternity of only guys good enough to be in the UFC. It doesn’t feel like that anymore.”