Ian McCall ser fram mot att rada upp sin tredje raka seger i UFC:s flugvikt, då han tar sig an John Lineker vid ”UFC: Fight Night 58” den 8 november. I en intervju via ”The MMA Hour” pratar han om frustrationen över att så få bryr sig om flugvikten, och att divisionens mästare Demetrious Johnson saknar personlighet.
Här kan ni läsa vad McCall hade att säga:
I’ve come to the conclusion that, it’s not racism, it’s like small person-ism. No one really gives a s**t about us, and it’s true. I mean, maybe it’s Demetrious’ fault for not being the marketable guy, even though he’s an amazing athlete. Maybe it’s my fault for not beating him up when I should’ve. Maybe people really just don’t care about seeing small half-sized people fight. I don’t know what it is, and it’s frustrating, but at the same time, you just get over it, whatever, I go in there and do my job.
I don’t mean to pick on him, but it does fall on him. The guy has the personality of my coffee mug. Actually, my coffee mug has more personality because it’s aJoe Rogan coffee mug, so never mind. He doesn’t do his job as far as marketing.
We don’t get paid the same, and I’m not hating on the UFC, the UFC treats me amazing. If you want to make more money, you fight more, you win more. But it’s just an overall consensus from everybody that we just kinda get swept under the rug and no one seems to really care. The women get a lot more exposure than we do, and let’s be honest, we’re twice the fighters they are.
This is the entertainment business, and as a whole, the flyweight division, apparently we’re not doing enough, so I’m just going to take it upon myself to beat the crap out of everybody, become champion, and then just start talking s**t like Conor McGregor and causing trouble. You never know, I might get a DUI. Who knows. I’m going to do whatever I can to make money and to get the little people some publicity.
I don’t want to cause too much trouble. But it’s like, I don’t know, it sucks. It’s kinda depressing at some point because we’re never going to get the love that everybody else gets, and that translates to money, that translates to fame, that translates to everything that you strive for when you’re an athlete.
Lineker har vunnit fem av sina sex senaste matcher där fyra av segrarna tillkommit via TKO/KO, och hur det kommer att gå för Ian återstår att se.
