Megan Anderson: STOP with the I’m not experienced bull$#!@

Top UFC women’s featherweight contender Megan Anderson appeared recently for the first time on Submission Radio, to discuss her fight with Holly Holm. The pair fight at UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 on June 9, 2018, at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Division champion Cris Cyborg has a theory about why the UFC put the fight on the main card, while leaving Alistair Overeem, Carla Esparza, Rashad Evans, and Sergio Pettis on the undercard. Cris believes that the UFC wants a rematch vs. Holm.

I don’t really care what Cris says or Holly says or what this person says, because at the end of the day it’s just Holly and I in that cage, no one else,” said Anderson. “And all I can control is me and my performance on June 9th, and the rest is all speculation. The rest is all, ‘What if this person wins, what if that person wins’. That all doesn’t matter until the result of June 9th happens. So, Cris can say whatever she wants. She’s fought [Holm] and she’s beat her, she knows she can beat her again. I’m unfamiliar territory for Cris. She hasn’t fought me, I’m young and up and coming, I’m improving with every fight, I’m getting better, I’m coming into my prime, I’m a big threat to her, so of course she’s going to say she thinks that the UFC is trying to set up a Holly rematch.

“I definitely want to address the whole, ‘Oh, she’s not experienced enough’ – bulls***. If experience won fights, I wouldn’t be on a four-fight winning streak right now. So clearly, can we stop using that phrase, because it doesn’t really mean s*** anymore.”

“I think Holly is a very skilled athlete and she’s been doing this for a really long time and I can see where people who don’t know about Invicta or haven’t watched a lot of women’s MMA outside of UFC may not know who I am so they kind of jump to the conclusion, ‘Oh, she’s not as tough as Holly, she’s gonna be outboxed or out this.’ Well, I’m like, this isn’t a boxing match, this is MMA, this is mixed martial arts, this isn’t one discipline. And Holly tends to really only just fight one discipline when it comes to her fights that I’ve watched in the cage, and that’s where I’m different. I incorporate everything into my game, and people just haven’t seen that yet, and that’s something that we’re really excited to really show, that I’m not just a striker, that my ground game, my grappling is up there as well, and I see me matching up really well with Holly.

“In my opinion, what makes a true champion is someone who can use the pain and suffering that has happened to them and to channel that into something great and they can use that to become even better in their specific field or become an even better athlete or they channel that into being a better person. And I think that’s really something that I’ve learned over the last year. I’ve done a lot of self-reflecting and I’ve changed a lot through this process, and I think it’s really helped me to become not just a better martial artist, but in my mind I am a champion and I like to, I guess help other people realise that even though they may be going through s****y times or something hard or a break-up or whatever it might be, everyone can get through it and you’ll come out the other side stronger and even more of a greater person then you’re already are.