{"id":114350,"date":"2014-10-05T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T15:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=114350"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:21:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:21:38","slug":"rick-story-wants-to-be-more-than-tough-wants-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/rick-story-wants-to-be-more-than-tough-wants-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Story Wants To Be More Than Tough, Wants Title Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Story-WINS.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105174\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Story-WINS.png\" alt=\"Story WINS\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Story-WINS.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Story-WINS-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Story-WINS-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rick Story is coming off a win against Gunnar Nelson yesterday at UFC Fight Night Stockholm, however that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s content with his situation.<\/p>\n<p>Story spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/10\/rick-story-theres-no-sense-in-fighting-if-youre-not-going-for-the-world-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a> about his win, and what he wants to do next.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAt this point, every performance is going to be one of the most important for my career. Trying to get up to the title shot, you can\u2019t take any bumps in the road. I can\u2019t take any more losses. I\u2019ve lost too many times, and it\u2019s hard every single time, so it\u2019s just easier to win.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Story admitted that he, like many, was shocked when the judges decision was read, and the first judge scored the bout 48-47 for Gunnar Nelson.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen I first heard it, I was shocked. The first thing that ran through my mind was Mike Pyle and Kelvin Gastelum. The Mike Pyle fight, I thought I won, but I didn\u2019t. And then the Gastelum fight, that was really close. I\u2019m happy with what happened in that fight. I was happy with my performance. But in my head, it shouldn\u2019t have been a rocky road. I should be on like a five-fight winning streak right now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo when the first scoring was called, I just didn\u2019t want the thing to happen. I knew in my head that I had to have won, but with some of the judging, it\u2019s never certain.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for Story, the remaining two judges scored the bout in his favor, giving him the split-decision victory.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOver the last couple years, after my losses, it seems like the next fight was always going to be the run for the title. But I really do think that I\u2019m in the right place, and I have the motivation to go in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere\u2019s no sense in training in this sport and doing it and fighting at this level if I\u2019m not going for the world title. So my goal is to be the world champion, and I\u2019m going to do whatever it takes to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always seem to be the underdog and the under-spoken fighter. Nobody really knows. They always say, \u2018Yeah, he\u2019s tough,\u2019 but they always count me out. It\u2019s not a huge motivational factor, but it\u2019s always kind of fun in a sense, putting everybody that talks down on me to shame.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Story is coming off a win against Gunnar Nelson yesterday at UFC Fight Night Stockholm, however that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s content with his situation. 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