Rafael dos Anjos isn’t buying Conor McGregor’s excuses about leaving the USADA testing pool. That, however, does not mean that RDA will be ignoring the chance to fight the former two-division champion. Dos Anjos appeared on a recent episode of The MMA Hour to double down on his McGregor callout from the weekend, claiming that he deserves the fight.
“I’ll fight him now. Just say OK, come to Las Vegas. That’s a guy that everything he’s for, I’m against. All his values are against my values. Let me put it this way: If we are in high school, that’s the type of guy that we’re going to fight in the school. That’s for sure. I don’t like him, and I want this fight.
RDA Demands McGregor: “I deserve that fight!”
When I’m putting myself in his shoes, who [is he] going to fight? Is he going to fight Poirier again for the fourth time? He’s going to fight Michael Chandler, who’s not even in the division he wants to fight? He looks like he’s juicing up – he’s not going to fight at 155 any more. He’s going to fight at 170, and also, with all due respect to Michael Chandler, he’s been putting on great fights, but he’s been losing a lot.
We have a history. We were supposed to fight two or three times already, and let’s go. Let’s bring the bad blood again. It will be a fun fight.”
McGregor recently claimed that he left the USADA testing pool to receive some assistance in healing his broken leg. RDA is doubtful.“I broke my jaw, man, in two pieces.
I’ve went through a lot. All the fights, Anderson Silva, Chris Weidman, and actually that injury looks bad. I’m not a doctor, but I know what I’m talking about. That injury looks bad, but it’s not worse than an ACL re-injury. You recover from that way quicker than an ACL injury, because that’s bone to bone. When it heals, you put in a plate, you’re 100 percent. You’ve just got to do some tgherapy, but ACL injury is way worse than that. So that’s no an excuse.
I got the sense [the UFC likes the idea], and I think the fight was supposed to happen seven years ago. On that card, [Kamaru] Usman was fighting Leon [Edwards] on the prelims. Francis Ngannou was doing his debut. I’m still here winning fights, finishing people, and I deserve that fight for everything I’ve done for the company. I believe it would sell a lot.”
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