{"id":105687,"date":"2014-07-20T16:58:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T23:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=105687"},"modified":"2022-02-06T09:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:50:56","slug":"lineker-says-mccall-doesnt-fight-plays-hide-and-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/lineker-says-mccall-doesnt-fight-plays-hide-and-seek\/","title":{"rendered":"Lineker Says McCall Doesn&#8217;t Fight, Plays Hide-And-Seek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufc-fight-night-45-results-lineker-tkos-ozkilic-with-9-seconds-remaining\/lineker-wins\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105165\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105165\" title=\"Lineker WINS\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lineker-WINS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lineker-WINS.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lineker-WINS-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lineker-WINS-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCongratulations to Ian on his win over Brad Pickett. But I\u2019m not sure if I was watching a fight or a game of touch with the way Ian was running around away from Pickett.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI have no problem at all with fighting McCall if that\u2019s what the UFC wants to happen. But I would ask my manager to suggest the UFC create a new rule, deducting a point for every so many yards run inside the ring. I want to fight, not play hide-and-seek.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a statement to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/07\/john-lineker-to-ian-mccall-on-potential-bout-i-want-to-fight-not-play-hide-and-seekf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com&#8217;s John Morgan<\/a>, top UFC flyweight John Lineker expressed his disinterest with the fighting style of Ian McCall.<\/p>\n<p>The two sit at the top of the division, are both coming off important wins this past week, and are expected to fight for a chance at Demetrious Johnson&#8217;s UFC world title.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCongratulations to Ian on his win over Brad Pickett. But I\u2019m not sure if I was watching a fight or a game of touch with the way Ian was running around away from Pickett. \u201cI have no problem at all with fighting McCall if that\u2019s what the UFC wants to happen. But I would ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":105165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[412,4133,11,649,15,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lineker Says McCall Doesn&#039;t Fight, Plays Hide-And-Seek | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/lineker-says-mccall-doesnt-fight-plays-hide-and-seek\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lineker Says McCall Doesn&#039;t Fight, Plays Hide-And-Seek | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cCongratulations to Ian on his win over Brad Pickett. 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