Maynard: Nothing to say if a guy’s not an a——
Frankei Edgar’s withdrawal from his UFC 130 bout vs. Gray Maynard this weekend provided ‘The Bully’ with an opportunity to…
Frankei Edgar’s withdrawal from his UFC 130 bout vs. Gray Maynard this weekend provided ‘The Bully’ with an opportunity to have arthroscopic surgery on his knee and give his body some time to recover after several tough training camps had taken their toll.
“I would have had to,” Maynard said of fighting with inuries if Edgar had not pulled out. “It’s kind of like, if you’re going for the belt, you don’t pull out of a fight.”
“I’m in this sport for one reason, and that’s to be at the top. The cash, all that stuff, it’s cool, but that’s not why I’m doing it. I’m not in it for that. I’m going to be the best. I want to be the best. I heard that, and you just don’t know what will happen. Will I have a chance again? If I do, it’ll take a long time. How am I going to change up things? You’ve just got all these emotions, and it’s hard to deal with. All your dreams and your goals, it could be gone.”
Dana White “called me and I was in my hotel room. I was just, you know, I didn’t know what I was going to do. And he called me and he said, ‘It’s f–king yours, kid.’ I think I almost cried, probably. I think I told him I loved him and it went quiet for a minute. Then he was like, ‘Well alright, get to work.'”
“You got everybody trying so hard to get out there, and I don’t know if it’s my attitude, but I don’t really give a f–k. …I’m just me, and that’s not me. These guys are acting like, I don’t know, you’re a gimmick. Do you want to be that or is it you? I don’t know. It’s a gimmick, I think, and it’s not me.”
“98 percent of the people I talk to are like, ‘Man, you got to build this fight up. You got to do this.’ If the guy’s an a—— then I’ll tell him he’s an a——. But if he’s not, then there’s nothing to talk about.”