Rashad: There’s no governing body to UFC tile shots
Rashad Evans waited the better part of a year for his title shot, forsaking other fights and upsetting UFC president…
Rashad Evans waited the better part of a year for his title shot, forsaking other fights and upsetting UFC president Dana White. With the fight less than two months away, an accident in training injured his knee and forced him out of the UFC 128 main event. Now the UFC has shuffled Jon Jones – Evans’ own teammate – into the title fight in his place.
“It’s hard,” said Evans. “Of course it’s hard. I can’t lie and say it’s not hard or that I don’t think sometimes, I wish it was me. I’d be lying if I said that. But I believe that everything happens for a reason.”
“Dana White says what he says, and one thing you can always appreciate him for is his honesty. I guess sometimes his honesty doesn’t favor me, but that’s fine. That’s okay. He can say (my fight with Rampage) was boring, but I have a different perspective being in the fight. There was a lot of points in that fight where my heart rate got up a little bit, so I could never agree that that fight was boring.”
“Even knowing what I know now about what would happen during training, I’d make that same decision again. The problem is, there’s no governing body to the UFC to decide who gets the title shot. There’s no ranking, so how do I know when I’ll get a title shot again? What, when Dana White likes me enough? It’s basically on when he likes me, and you know as well as I know, that’s not that often. If I get the opportunity to fight for a title because he says so, then I’m going to take it. If I have to wait to take it, I’ll wait to take it.”