Phil Davis har enbart förlorat en match i sin MMA-karriär, och har inför matchen mot Anthony Johnson tre raka segrar i ryggen. Under en ”media scrum” inför helgens ”UFC on FOX 11” pratade Dana White om varför Phil inte har fått någon titelmatch, och vad han tycker Davis borde ta och göra för att få en:
I like Phil, and I don’t want to throw Phil under the bus, but Phil needs to get over that mental hump, and he needs to get on the Internet and f–king check the rankings and see where he’s ranked. He’s one of the best light heavyweights in the world, but he doesn’t come off to me like I’ve got guys (who are) breathing down my f–king neck for fights: ‘I want this fight. I want this, I want that.’
Phil Davis is like, ‘Eh, I’ll hang out around No. 4 here.’ He’s not that guy that comes across to me like, ‘I f–king want it. I want to be the champ. I want to be the best in the world.’ He’s just sort of, ‘Eh.
Det dröjde inte lång tid för Phil att svara på kritiken, och här kan ni läsa vad han hade att säga via ”MMAJunkie”:
I find it to be very interesting. I’m not sure how he came upon this faulty information, but I will do everything in my power to make sure that the right message gets across, that not only am I ready to be the champion, I am ready to break apart anybody who stands between me and UFC gold. I thought I said that already – that’s crazy, ha-ha. I’m going to say it again right now: Anybody who stands between me and UFC gold will get broke apart. I thought I said that already, but apparently, that didn’t get to the right people.
The fact that he doesn’t know what’s going on in my little interviews doesn’t surprise me. So, I’ll tell you what’s going to happen. I’m going to talk to Dana and let him know, ‘Hey Dana, I’m going to break apart anybody you put in front of me until I am the UFC champion.’ Simple as that. We just had a misunderstanding. That’s all.
First thing I’m going to do is beat the crap out of Anthony Johnson. Second thing I’m going to do, I’m going to say, ‘Dana, put somebody else in front of me – I’m going to beat them up.’ Put me in front of Jon ‘Bones’ Jones, and I will break him in two.
It certainly doesn’t make your day, but we’ll make sure the right message gets across when I beat the crap out of Anthony Johnson, and then when I’m in the center of the cage talking to Joe Rogan, I’ll make sure the rest of the world knows that if anybody else gets in the cage with me, I’ll beat the crap out of them, too.
Davis och Anthony kommer att möta varandra den 26 april vid UFC 172, en gala som äger rum i Baltimore.
