{"id":117850,"date":"2014-11-05T14:58:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=117850"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:12:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:12:18","slug":"ian-mccall-this-job-is-killing-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/ian-mccall-this-job-is-killing-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McCall: &#8220;This job is killing us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/ian-mccall-this-job-is-killing-us\/ian-mccall-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117946\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117946\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ian-McCall.jpg\" alt=\"Ian McCall\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ian-McCall.jpg 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ian-McCall-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ian-McCall-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It could be worse. I could have an office job and want to kill myself. It could be a lot worse. This job is killing us. Realistically, this job is ruining the one vehicle we have &#8212; our bodies and our brains. It&#8217;s killing me. It&#8217;s killing all of us, but I signed up for it. Just like all these football players. They want to make all these cheesy rules &#8212; you can&#8217;t hit guys, they can&#8217;t hit each other as hard. You signed up for this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;John Lineker could kill me and I have no problem with that. I could kill him and I have no f&#8211;king problem with that either. It&#8217;s part of the sport. All of the suffering we put in, the training and everywhere else at home, I don&#8217;t get to see my kid as much, the diet, I have to eat vegan food all week and it sucks. It&#8217;s not fun. But I do what I love and I get underpaid for it, but I still get paid. It could be worse. I could have a 9 to 5.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I know we don&#8217;t get credit and we don&#8217;t get the love, but this is a No. 1 contender&#8217;s fight. This is kind of a big deal. This is No. 3 versus No. 4 and to get the least amount of respect we&#8217;re getting. Shockingly, we&#8217;re co-main event now &#8217;cause someone had to get hurt. It&#8217;s a slap in the face.\u00a0It&#8217;s just me complaining and I&#8217;ve got to shut up and do my job.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During a recent chat with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/ufc\/story\/ian-mccall-this-job-is-killing-us-but-i-signed-up-for-it-110414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOX Sports<\/a>, Ian McCall discussed his outlook on the sport he&#8217;s decided to call his profession, Mixed Martial Arts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It could be worse. I could have an office job and want to kill myself. It could be a lot worse. 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