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19th July 2018
03:16pm BST

"He was pretty pissed off. He was just in a bad mood. Fight fell through, I didn't realise DC (Daniel Cormier) just fell backstage and then he walks into this meeting and I'm over here telling him I'm not going to fight. I'm holding my ground."No fight meant no pay for 'T-City.' So he pleaded his case to receive some sort of compensation for doing everything else bar take a short notice fight.
"I'm just like, 'Listen, with all due respect, I stepped in and fought (Thiago) Tavares on two weeks' notice. I stepped in and fought Frankie (Edgar) on three weeks' notice and I stepped in to try to fight Khabib (Nurmagomedov on six weeks' notice.' I go, 'It's not a scared issue, I'm not down for the company. I finished everyone you told me to. Every single person you put in front of me, I took their heads off and like Conor (McGregor) says, I put them on your fucking doorstep and that earned me a title shot. Now that I'm here, why go anywhere else besides forward?'"https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/1018967515022725127
"Well, he put on his promotor hat. He's like, 'Listen man.just fight. Blah blah blah. We'll work something out.' I was just like, 'We don't need to work anything out. I want Max Holloway or i want the belt.' (He replied) 'I'll see if we can do an interim fight.' I was like, 'I'm not fighting for a fake belt. It looks cool, but it's not the real belt. There's no real money involved in that one, there's nothing that really goes on in terms of being a champion. You just get something that says, 'I'm first place'. It just says. 'I'm next in line for the belt.' I'm already here, right? You just want to put something shiny around my waist to make me feel better. I'm not going to do it.'" "I told him, 'Listen, I showed up, I've been cutting weight, I've done all the media, even the media in Spanish.' I had to do double the work and do that in Spanish. So every fighter left and I'm still stuck there doing everything in Spanish."https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/1019205314682466307
"I'm like, 'I've been showing you I'm a company man, I'm down to promote the hell out of this fight, I'm taking extra hours while I'm hungry, starving to keep doing media. And I've been cutting weight, did the open workouts, ready for media - I showed up. Don't you think that's worth something? That's worth something. Even if I didn't take the fight, still I did my end of the deal.'" "Then they came back and were like, 'Well, our deal is to find you a fight and we found you a fight and you turned it down.' I was like, 'Not really. Unless it's for a title, I'm not going for it.' He goes, 'Well, I did my job, you didn't do yours.'"So how about that fighters' union then? Oh, wait!
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