Now set to take on arguably the most dangerous welterweight on the UFC roster in Demain Maia, Masvidal believes the UFC’s intentions are for him to get the grappler out of contention.
“[Maia]’s on a six fight winning streak, and he’s beaten some good guys. So, if they had told me that Demian was fighting for the title and I was fighting somebody else, and then I would fight for the title, as long as that somebody else was the next closest thing to the title, I wouldn’t have cared. As long as I had the next closest thing to a title. So I don’t feel bad for him. At the end of the day, he’s going to get a paycheck.”
When asked if he thinks the UFC sets him up to knock down the guys they don’t like, Masvidal stated,
“I’m going to plead the fifth because I do have a job, bro.”
“Because they did the math, the ancient secret math. They’re looking at me and going, yo, this guy is complete bro, in all f*cking areas. We could use this guy to eliminate the guys that we don’t like. So maybe Masvidal, we can’t push him that much, but we could use him to eliminate the others, because this guy for real. He’s a bad guy.”
[Quotes via MMAFighting.com]
