Logan Storley, Bellator’s interim lightweight champion, is no stranger to criticism. Most recently, Bellator president Scott Coker blasted Storley’s title win, which saw Storley stifle Michael “Venom” Page with his wrestling. For Coker, that was just “laying on somebody”, but the interim champ says otherwise.
“I mean, to each his own. I think Scott scored it 48-47 Page, but which two rounds are you giving me? If you’re going to give me two rounds, why not give me the other two?
Logan Storley Fires Back at Bellator Criticism
You’re just guessing at this point. I respect Scott, me and him have a good relationship, but you can’t just pick and choose rounds that, ‘Oh, MVP won this.’ One, two, three, and five was clearly me, so which rounds are you giving me?
I respect Scott and we have a good relationship and Bellator’s done a lot for me. I love working for those guys, but I get it. Neiman Gracie, that’s a big guy of theirs — I beat him up. Then you have MVP, you’ve got the U.K. draw — I beat him up. So yeah, if you want to be mad, be mad. But I don’t care. I’m a world champ, and if they’re not happy, put whoever you have in front of me next.
I have a brain and I know how to calculate things and I know where people are good, but I did what I had to do and I have the belt. If anyone has a problem with that, I’m sorry. I always want to put on exciting fights, but I did what I had to do to win the fight.”
Logan Storley also pointed out the fatal flaw in arguments against his ability: if what he was doing to win fights wasn’t working, Michael “Venom” Page would have won.
“I think he’s a great dude and he’s a hell of a fighter and I respect the hell out of ‘MVP,’ but at the end of the day, you couldn’t stop a takedown. You couldn’t stop anything I was doing on top. You couldn’t get away from me. Anyone that has a problem with that, I don’t know what to tell you.
I stood up with you for probably 10 or 11 minutes of the fight — why didn’t you drop me? Why didn’t you hurt me? I gave you all the time in the fourth round, we were both tired — why didn’t you knock me out? All he said before the fight was, ‘It only takes one second.’ Why didn’t you do that? That’s my question. If you’re so good, why didn’t you knock me out in that one second that it took?”
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