Ian McCall (13-5-1-0) kommer senast ifrån en förlust mot John Lineker (25-7) och har nu en ny motståndare i åtanke som han gärna vill möta.
McCall menar att det var hans mentala game som gjorde att han förlorade mot Lineker.
“I only watched the fight once,” sa McCall. “I didn’t get my ass kicked as bad as I thought. I just drew a blank. I remember I was so on-point. I’ve never been more on-point physically. And I just sh-t the bed mentally. Like, I got there and I was just like… . And I don’t doubt myself. I’m just sitting back there like, ‘I’m f-cked. This sucks. I feel like sh-t.’ It is what it is. That’s a part of my game, being a head case, I guess – which I am. I’m working with Vinny Shoreman, Joe Schilling’s mental coach – mind coach, I guess. Whatever you call it. So, you know, they can fix that.”
“I lost to a guy who sucks. Realistically, he sucks. He’s basic. And I lost to him. So, whatever. It’s MMA. You can still lose and still become champ later. It could be worse.”
McCall vill väldigt gärna ha en returmatch mot Joseph Benavidez (21-4) som han förlorade mot.
“I want to fight Joe Benavidez next,” förklarade McCall. “I’d like to. I need to beat up someone from Alpha Male, and he seems like a good candidate – and he’s ranked above me. I’ll fight anybody, you know me. I don’t care. To have all those douchebags kind of – like, I literally walked out to the cage and I turned to my left and I saw all those f-cking tools, shirts off, chest bumping, and I couldn’t help but laugh. It was a little distracting, I’m not going to lie. It was kind of funny.”
“But I would love to just – OK, yeah, you beat me last time, you’re going to kick my ass again. Come on, let’s fight. I’m going to put him back to sleep again, like (Demetrious Johnson) did.”
McCall erkänner att han tycker att han är en douchebag.
”I am not going to lie, I’m a douchebag too,” sa McCall. “Let’s get this out there. But they just – this is going to sound even worse. I grew up fighting frat guys. That’s what we did in high school or college, just beat up frat dudes all the time. There was always kind of that rubbing on each other, I don’t like these guys that much. Words were said and I said something and back and forth. And, now I just – I don’t know. We like talking shit to each other. It’s kind of fun.”
