Phil Davis: I’m fighting for more than just money
Phil Davis: “I truly love to go against other people, no matter what it is, and that’s such a unique thing because I don’t take a lot extrinsic motivation from winning money.”
Phil Davis has been a competitor his entire life and when he steps into the cage against Ryan Bader at UFC Fight Night Stockholm, it will be for more than money and fame:
I truly love to go against other people, no matter what it is, and that’s such a unique thing because I don’t take a lot extrinsic motivation from winning money, he continues. Winning money’s cool, yeah, there’s stuff I want to buy, I want a new house, all of that. But at the same time, the thing that drives me is not money or this or that. The reason why I started wrestling, the reason why I continued to wrestle all these years – you don’t wrestle because you want to be rich and famous. You wrestle for some odd reason, and my odd reason was ‘I want to be better than you for no other reason than to say that I’m better.’ And that’s just it.