Den före detta tungviktsmästaren Cain Velasquez bryr sig personligen inte särskilt mycket om Conor McGregor går match under UFC 200 eller inte och han beskyller inte UFC för deras val att ta bort irländaren från kortet, efter vägran om att delta under presskonferenserna.
Det här berättade Velasquez under mediadagen inför UFC 200:
I’m doing it, everybody else is doing it. Can I see his side? No, not really. I’m doing it. Everybody else is doing it. If he had to do way more than what we had to do, OK then, yes. I could definitely see that. But if he’s not, if he’s doing the same thing, then no. We’re all doing it.
I feel that we all do have obligations to do this kind of stuff. I’m a guy that hates doing this. When I first started to fight, I thought it was just training and fighting and that was it. ’OK, you’ve gotta do interviews.’ [I was like,] ’What?’ Doing it now, yeah I’m kind of comfortable with doing it. I can do it pretty easily, I feel like. I feel like it is part of the job. You’ve gotta do this and train and fight.
I guess it all depends on what you can handle. Some people can do this kind of stuff all day, some people can’t. I understand that. You just talk to whoever is with you. The PR people from the UFC are great. We just talk to them and say, ’Hey, this is too much.’
Again, that’s not fair to the other fighters I would say, also. But me personally, I don’t care. You came, you didn’t come. If he fights on the card, if he doesn’t, I’m just happy to be back. That’s it.
Velaquez möter härnäst Travis Browne under UFC 200 som äger rum i Las Vegas den 9 juli.
