Phil Davis is ready to go ‘crazy’ at UFN 24
Undefeated Phil Davis has been on a meteoric rise after a seamless transition from collegiate wrestling (2008 national champion and…
Undefeated Phil Davis has been on a meteoric rise after a seamless transition from collegiate wrestling (2008 national champion and four-year All-American at Penn State) to full-time mixed-martial-arts fighter. After winning his first four UFC fights, the 26-year-old earned a coveted spot in a main event.
He gets his toughest test to date when he faces veteran Antonio Rogerio “Little Nog” Nogueira Saturday at UFC Fight Night 24, live on Spike TV.
“To me, (headlining) just means I’ve got to sit in the locker room all night long and wait for my turn to do what I was going to do,” Davis recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio. “I’d rather be in the third fight in, but whatever. It comes with the territory.”
“It’s exciting to know that (a win) would put me in the mix with some bigger-name guys. Hopefully that’s where I belong.”
“I trained with Big Nog a few times. I only got a chance to train with Rogerio maybe once or twice, which is neither here nor there.
“It sucks because in the MMA community it’s so small that if you want to excel, you have to train with good people. But, it’s also so small that you’ll probably see those people later.”
“(Charlie Sheen) is not that crazy. He’s probably to the point where he has enough money to live. He’s comfortable without working. And he really doesn’t care. He just wants to ‘do Charlie.’ Somebody calls him out by name, and he just wants to act crazy in public.”
“I told you guys I’m crazy. You never know what crazy people are going to do. You don’t. You know they’re going to be crazy. That’s all you know. All you know about crazy people is you can expect not to know what they’re going to do.”
Despite Davis’s surging success, the MMA fan below mistook him for current lightheavyweight champ Jon Jones.