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Phil Davis ber Jon Jones om ursäkt

Phil Davis

Phil Davis hade tidigare chansen att skriva på ett nytt kontrakt för UFC, men valde istället att gå över till den rivaliserande organisationen Bellator MMA.

Förra året trashtalkade Davis UFC:s mästare i lätt tungvikt, Jon Jones, då han jämförde honom med en kaka som han skulle smula sönder. Jones passade därför på att svara på Davis flytt med följande:

Oh my goodness, ’Mr. JV,’ himself. To be honest, I’m happy for him if he’s going to make more money over there. Ultimately, it’s about providing for our families. It’s a job at the end of the day. If he’s going to be treated better over there, good for him. I do believe the competition is not as stiff at Bellator as the UFC so I think he’ll definitely be a top three guy in the world now. Good for him. Maybe he’ll even win it. To be a world champion and to make a little more money, that’s a win-win. But good luck ’crumbling me like a cookie’ from all the way over there.

 

Detta hade Davis att säga till ”Bones”:

You know what, here is what I have for Jon, because I think this is long overdue. I need to apologize to poor Jonny, because I said those words about crumbling him like a cookie and he has hung onto those words for all of about a year now. And apparently he hung onto those words because I hurt his feelings. So, let me apologize to him by saying sorry I said I was going to crumble you like a cookie, because he has still not let that go. I get it. I feel bad the poor guy has been worried about that comment ever since I said it. He is very sensitive you know?

Nu när Davis har börjat i Bellator har han fått ställa in siktet på den nuvarande mästaren Liam McGeary. Davis är dock säker på att han kommer kunna tackla allt motstånd:

I want to be the best no matter where I am. Now I am in Bellator and I want to be the best there. Right now Liam McGeary is holding down the belt, so I want to fight him. The 205-pound division is loaded with some pretty tough talent, but I think to myself I am a very tough guy. I feel like I’m ready to get in there and fight any of those guys.

 

Davis förklarar att han är glad över att slippa UFC:s nya sponsring från Reebok. Han kommer nu att kunna ha hur många sponsorer han kan.

Well, that seems to be a sensitive subject the whole sponsorship thing. For the sake of my teammates and my friends and all the guys I’ve met in the years of fighting in the UFC, I hope the Reebok deal turns out to be a positive one for the guys still fighting. But, I am so looking forward to having back a lot more sponsors and for that reason I am thrilled to be in Bellator.

As far as my brand, I’m all about reaching new fans and fans that aren’t necessarily MMA fans and that is something I will be able to do a little bit easier on Spike TV. It opens me up to a little bit different viewership. Definitely the same graphic, but maybe not the same people that are going to sports bars and watching pay-per-views.

Davis mötte senast Ryan Bader under UFC on FOX 14, då han förlorade via domslut.

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