MMA-profilen Chael Sonnen tycker att fighters borde säga vad de tycker i större utsträckning och våga släppa behovet av att bli älskade av alla.
Förra veckan pratade Chael Sonnen med MMAjunkie Radio och disskussionsämnet om varför inte fler fighters blir stora stjärnor nuförtiden kom upp. Sonnen tycker att en stor del till förklringen beror på att fighters inte uttrycker sina åsikter tillräckligt tydligt vare sig det gäller kontroversiella frågor eller kring en sådan enkel sak som vem de vill möta i sin nästa match:
”Nobody wants to hear less after a guy wins a fight that he’ll fight whoever Joe Silva and Dana White want him to. It’s definitely the single worst answer out there, and Dana White has told people that in the back, at fighter meetings, after weigh-ins, before we go out there. He’ll say, ‘Listen, when the fight is over, the people want to hear who you want to fight next. They don’t want to hear about your sponsors and your god and your political beliefs. Tell them who you want to fight next.
The moment one fight ends, the marketing for the next fight begins, and you have no better opportunity. This is your market; the audience watching that pay-per-view are the ones you need to speak to more than anybody else, and there’s your chance. But these guys in MMA have to be loved so much, they can’t stand even the smallest time of not being loved. They can’t stand one negative comment on Twitter, so they try to unfry that egg constantly. Just come out, say your piece, and walk away. Whatever the result is, the result is. But don’t backtrack, ever”.
