Jorge Masvidal (28-9) tog sig an Al Iaquinta (12-3-1-0) i helgens UFC och förlorade ett kontroversiellt split-decision och Masvidal ifrågesätter domarnas tänkande.
Masvidal hade gärna tagit en match väldigt snart igen om han skulle bli medicinskt godkänd av läkaren.
“If (the UFC) called me right now and they’re like, ‘So-and-so needs to get his ass whipped, Jorge, you want to some easy money?’” sa Masvidal. “Jorge can say yes, and guess who has to sit out for 60 days or whatnot and wait until the doctor says, ‘OK, you’re good enough to fight now, boy.’”
Enligt statistiken var det Masvidal som landade fler slag och Masvidal menar själv att Iaquinta bara slog i luften.
“I landed at a much higher percentage of what I threw,” sa Masvidal. “The percentage wasn’t even close, and I threw even more. So when people are saying he was more active, how? If you’re just swinging at the air, is that active?”
“He threw a low kick, and boom, I dropped him with a right,” sa Masvidal. “In boxing and in MMA or any organization, you throw a strike, I counter with a strike, and your hand touches the canvas and you wobble on the way back up, that’s a knockdown. They didn’t count that.”
Masvidal ser ingen riktig poäng med en rematch och tror inte heller att Iaquinta skulle vilja gå en rematch.
“Nobody likes easy money more than me,” sa han. “I’ll do the rematch today. But at the same time, me doing that rematch is conceding, because I’m like, ‘Y’all f-cked up, but you know what? I’ll bite the bullet. You cut half my check anyway, but I’ll still bite the bullet for the commission and do it again.’ I already got ripped off this time by not getting my full money. Now I’ve got to go out there and do it again.”
