Oavsett vad UFCs vd Dana White tycker om att lagkamrater ska gå match mot varandra så kommer det finnas de fajters som aldrig skulle komma på tanken och andra som inte bryr sig nämnvärt. Cerrone tillhör tydligen den sistnämnda kategorien.
”I still am, 100 percent (Rashad’s friend). Every day, I would walk in and say, ’I’m team Rashad.’ It was just like that, I wear everything on my sleeve, I say how it is and I talk right to people. I would tell Jon (Jones), ’I’m team Rashad, man. That’s my boy, that’s my brother.’ And Jones is cool man, he is a cool dude. I have no hard feelings. I go out with him and hang all the time and I train with him. It’s not like I would take his training and tell Rashad, I wouldn’t go that far. But he is like, ’I respect the fact that you were friends with Rashad before you met me and that you’re sticking by your boy, and I respect that.’ As for me, I will fight anyone. I will fight anybody. I would fight Leonard (Garcia), and I live with him. Does that answer your question? I would fight Clay (Guida), and he will still be my boy. I mean, this is what we do, we’re professionals and there is going to come a time when teammates are going to have to fight. That’s just the way it goes.”, säger Cerrone till Pro MMA Radio.
Cerrone har sin egen lösning på dilemmat genom att inte vara särskilt bekväm men genomärlig och med tanke på att det är flera högt rankade i samma viktklass på stora gym som exempelvis Jacksons MMA så är det viktigt att ta ställning.
Cerrone är närmast inbokad för match mot Jeremy Stephens på UFC on Fuel: ”Korean Zombie vs. Poirier” den 15 maj.
