{"id":292079,"date":"2018-11-20T14:19:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T22:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=292079"},"modified":"2018-11-27T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T00:12:06","slug":"santiago-ponzinibbio-calls-out-conor-mcgregor-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/santiago-ponzinibbio-calls-out-conor-mcgregor-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago Ponzinibbio calls out Conor McGregor and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago Ponzinibbio is on a mission to fight the best, and be the best. To do this, Ponzinibbio knows he has to be the welterweight champion and then defeat arguably two of the pound-for-pound best in <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/georges-st-pierre\/\">Georges St-Pierre<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ponzinibbio most recently fought last weekend in his home country of Argentina in which he defeated <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/neil-magny\/ufc-argentina-results-santiago-ponzinibbio-kos-neil-magny-highlights\/\">Neil Magny by fourth-round\u00a0TKO<\/a>. The win should catapult Ponzinibbio into the top-eight if not higher in the rankings. However, he believes he deserves the next title shot, and then a fight with McGregor and St-Pierre.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTyron Woodley, when he got the title shot, he had six fights for the company,\u201d Ponzinibbio said to <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/11\/santiago-ponzinibbio-would-beat-conor-mcgregor-georges-st-pierre-politics-holding-me-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a>. \u201cHe won four and lost two. He lost to Rory MacDonald and then got two fights \u2013 two easy fights. [Josh] Koscheck and that other guy, and they gave him a title shot. Come on! This is ridiculous!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My fights are exciting. He\u2019s not an exciting fighter,&#8221; Ponzinibbio continued. &#8220;I opened a new market in my country with the pressure and the expectations. I won for my people \u2013 that is something Tyron is not ready for. And that is something he will never do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I know I\u2019m ready. I know I\u2019ll finish Tyron,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I know I\u2019ll knock him out, but I need the opportunity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, if Ponzinibbio doesn&#8217;t get his wish for a title shot with Woodley, he wants to fight McGregor or St-Pierre. He wants those fights for the money and the fact that he believes he would win rather easily.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cYou give me Conor, I am a better striker than him,\u201d Ponzinibbio said. \u201cHe\u2019s really good at trash talk and he\u2019s a really good businessman, but I\u2019m a better fighter. This is different. I\u2019m a better striker. I have better timing. I have better power. I\u2019ll finish him, for sure. I\u2019ll finish McGregor. I\u2019ll finish GSP \u2013 GSP is old. He\u2019s a good guy. I like him. I\u2019m a big fan. But I\u2019m better. I\u2019ll finish him. I\u2019m ready for both. I\u2019m an exciting fighter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If you give me the fight with GSP, I\u2019ll knock him out for sure. I\u2019ll knock anybody at 170 pounds if you give me the opportunity.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ultimately, it doesn&#8217;t seem likely that Ponzinibbio will fight any of those three in his next fight. He simply needs one more win over a top-five welterweight to show he deserves a title shot. When he does get that shot, he is confident he will hear &#8216;and new.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Ponzinibbio would defeat McGregor, St-Pierre, and Woodley?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 11\/20\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago Ponzinibbio is on a mission to fight the best, and be the best. 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