The number one light heavyweight in the world, according to Corey Anderson, isn’t the UFC champ. It’s not even the Bellator champ. It’s Corey Anderson, who told The Fighter vs the Writer that he proved his worth at Bellator 277 despite his title challenge to Vadim Nemkov being declared no contest. “In my head, I was like, ‘I wonder how Dana White feels now?’
I wonder if he saw that fight. I wonder how he feels. Granted, he might not have seen it, but I just wondered does he regret letting me go? Does he regret they didn’t put that energy into promoting me like they did these other guys, now that they can see what I can do with a little love behind me, to feel like I actually belong somewhere. Like they actually want me.
Corey Anderson Says he Proved that He’s the Best: “‘I wonder how Dana White feels now?”
I don’t miss the UFC, but I wonder if they ever look back and wonder. I wonder what if we actually put that promotion behind Corey, what could have happened? Now they see, the world sees, Corey is the best. You can’t knock it. You can’t say nothing about it.”
Sitting at the top of the heap in the UFC right now is Glover Teixeira, who Anderson once defeated back when he was still in the UFC roster. If that and his Bellator run aren’t enough to satisfy the haters, Corey Anderson is happy to let them be.
“Anybody that’s doubting my skill now is just a hater of Corey Anderson. It’s not like they see any performance or anything I did wrong. They just don’t like Corey Anderson. No matter what they do, they’re going to keep knocking me no matter what I do. At this point, I stopped doing it for the people a while ago. I do it to prove to myself and show what I know.
It’s just because they don’t want to see my shine, and that’s all right. That’s OK. Just say that. You don’t have to go out there and knock my skills. Just say you don’t like me. I’ll take that over anything. That’s fine. We need haters. I need haters in this world, but don’t sit there and knock my performance just cause you don’t like me, trying to get other people to believe your funk. Without a doubt, 100 percent, I know it. I believe it but now there’s no question.”
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