{"id":213323,"date":"2016-12-22T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=213323"},"modified":"2017-02-14T20:28:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T04:28:04","slug":"exclusive-john-dodson-discusses-next-potential-fight-reflects-lineker-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-john-dodson-discusses-next-potential-fight-reflects-lineker-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE | John Dodson discusses next potential fight, reflects on Lineker loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in October, two of the most exciting fighters in the UFC’s lighter weight divisions stepped into the Octagon in the main event of ‘UFC Fight Night: Portland’. Former flyweight title challenger John Dodson was looking to pick up his second straight win since returning to bantamweight<\/a>, while John Lineker was looking to continue his reign of terror in the bantamweight division after being forced to move up from flyweight at the end of 2015.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"John<\/a><\/p>\n

The fight was certainly an exciting one that ultimately saw two of the three judges score the fight in Lineker’s favor<\/a> after five hard-fought rounds. Following the fight, Dodson was handed the minimum 7-day medical suspension, and was looking to have a quick turnaround, however he has been struggling to find an opponent.<\/p>\n

He spoke on this week’s episode of BJPenn.com Radio<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I was trying to fight on that Denver card (‘UFC Fight Night: Shevchenko vs. Pena’) on January 28th, and magically everybody said no! I’m that good of a magician that I make everybody disappear when my name is offered onto the table. ‘Hey you want to fight Dodson?’ ‘Ahh, nah I’m good. He hits too hard.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Anyone. My big thing was I just wanted to fight anybody that was willing to say yes. At this point in time, like I lost my last fight. Everyone can sit there and tell me how much that I looked good in that fight, but at the end of the night, if I don’t come home with both paychecks I lost. I made that man look like Frankenstein and they said that he beat me up, when I made it look like in the streets he got his ass whooped. Very disappointed in myself…I should’ve just knocked him out.”<\/p>\n

“I thought I won the fight. I thought I did enough damage going into 1, 2, and 5. I know 3rd round I had some difficulties because he was hunting me down and I thought he was going to slow down, he just surprised me. Same thing in the 4th round, I had to use more evasive maneuvers because I still thought he was slowing down. In the 5th round I just stuck it to him, punched him as many times as I could, took him down, and I had secured the dominant position, more than what he had done throughout the whole fight. Not only that, I landed 80% of my strikes.”<\/p>\n

“He landed 24…I think it was less than 24, I think it was 23 or something like that. But, I’m making him miss that many times, and I had more significant strikes, and more total strikes. I should’ve been the victor.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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