{"id":325963,"date":"2019-09-22T12:38:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=325963"},"modified":"2019-09-22T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T19:38:32","slug":"jorge-masvidal-explains-why-he-doesnt-respect-kamaru-usmans-fighting-style-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jorge-masvidal-explains-why-he-doesnt-respect-kamaru-usmans-fighting-style-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal explains why he doesn’t respect Kamaru Usman’s fighting style ‘at all’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jorge Masvidal has never been particularly impressed with UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman’s fighting style. That’s truer than ever now that Usman allegedly turned down a fight with him.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the media ahead of yesterday’s UFC Mexico card, Masvidal explained why he’s not a fan of Usman’s fighting style. Apparently, it has nothing to do with Usman being a wrestler and more to do with the lack of finishes on the champ’s record.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do you think he said no [to a fight with me], my brother?\u201d Masvidal said (via MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cThat guy knows that I\u2019m going to baptize him. That guy has never wanted to fight with me. That guy can only do one thing right: smell balls good. He can\u2019t fight. He has his face there. He doesn\u2019t want to [throw hands], even when he has the chance to throw the hands, and when he has the guy on the floor, he doesn\u2019t do anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that I don\u2019t have respect for wrestlers. I have a lot of respect to the community of wrestlers, like Khabib [Nurmagomedov]. I have a lot of respect for him because he tries to finish fights, he tries to get his hands in there, he tries to choke people. Someone like Usman, I don\u2019t respect his style at all. As a person, I don\u2019t know him, and what I do know, it doesn\u2019t interest me much about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Jorge Masvidal does not consider Kamaru Usman particularly exciting, he says he’s determined to entertain the fans whenever he steps into the cage. That includes his upcoming fight with Nate Diaz, scheduled for UFC 244 on November 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cI promise them just violence, totally, second to second,\u201d Masvidal said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to stop until my heart stops or they have ended the fight. That\u2019s my mentality for all my fights. In this fight, it\u2019s a bit more because my opponent has the same mentality as me. He wants to destroy me completely, and that gives me the extra motivation that sometimes you need, that I haven\u2019t had in years, to motivate me to wake up earlier, to go to bed earlier, to eat a little better when I\u2019m not in Mexico, with more discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to entertain the people. If you have to pay the money that you work hard to earn, the people that work construction, the people that cut grass, have to pay money, that people have an option. They want to see violence, and if they want to see violence they\u2019re going to pay for that and not going to choose him. They\u2019re not going to pick the people that don\u2019t give it their all in the sport, that don\u2019t try to risk it, that want to win for the smallest thing, most minimal thing possible. I\u2019m not like that. I want to win. I want to give it my all.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think of these comments from Jorge Masvidal?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 9\/22\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jorge Masvidal has never been particularly impressed with UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman’s fighting style. That’s truer than ever now that Usman allegedly turned down a fight with him. Speaking to the media ahead of yesterday’s UFC Mexico card, Masvidal explained why he’s not a fan of Usman’s fighting style. 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