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After weeks of trying to find a willing opponent, rising UFC lightweight James Vick has been booked for a scrap with Ireland’s Joe Duffy at UFC 217 this November 4. While Vick is satisfied with this fight, he would have preferred a ranked<\/a> opponent. Unfortunately, he is finding it nearly impossible to enter the top-10. In his opinion, top-10 fighters are given a little too much slack when it comes to losses, while rising contenders essentially have to move mountains to enter the top-10.<\/p>\n

Vick broke it down on the latest episode of BJ Penn Radio<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically all of these [top-10] guys want us killers [outside the top-10] to fight each other,” he said. “It\u2019s nuts how I lose to one guy in the top-10 (Beneil Dariush)\u2013 he was ranked like number 7 at the time or something \u2013 and I\u2019m not good enough to fight in the top-10. But these guys lose like three or four fights in the top-10 and it\u2019s like they\u2019re grandfathered in and they can take as many losses as they want.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Anthony<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just gets old seeing these [top-10] guys lose multiple fights and still be ranked in the top-10,” Vick continued. “I\u2019m not trying to be mean, but I know Michael Johnson recently dropped down [to featherweight], but Michael Johnson was 1-4 in his last five fights, and he was still ranked in the top-10. I mean I understand that he\u2019s fighting the highest level of guys, but at the same time, it\u2019s like when these guys get to the top-10, they can just lose however many fights they want as long as the lose to each other, because they\u2019re grandfathered in. You know, [Anthony] Pettis comes back [to the lightweight division] and beats 40-year-old Jim Miller, and this mother fucker is ranked number-13 in the world? It\u2019s a joke. The dude should not be ranked yet off of one win over Jim Miller. There\u2019s no way he should have got that ranking. I understand he\u2019s a former world champion, whatever, that\u2019s all cool, but I mean, I\u2019ve trolled him on Twitter and didn\u2019t hear a word. These guys act like I\u2019m not big enough for them to fight.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you think James Vick will earn himself a top-10 lightweight opponent with a win over Joe Duffy at UFC 217?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 9\/28\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After weeks of trying to find a willing opponent, rising UFC lightweight James Vick has been booked for a scrap with Ireland’s Joe Duffy at UFC 217 this November 4. While Vick is satisfied with this fight, he would have preferred a ranked opponent. Unfortunately, he is finding it nearly impossible to enter the top-10. 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