{"id":327283,"date":"2019-10-05T09:04:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=327283"},"modified":"2019-10-05T09:04:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T16:04:35","slug":"al-iaquinta-calls-bmf-title-disrespectful-to-real-ufc-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/al-iaquinta-calls-bmf-title-disrespectful-to-real-ufc-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Iaquinta calls &#8216;BMF&#8217; title disrespectful to real UFC champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York native Al Iaquinta isn&#8217;t opposed to his former opponent, Jorge Masvidal facing Nate Diaz on his home turf at Madison Square Gardens. However, he doesn&#8217;t approve of the &#8216;BMF&#8217; title attributed to their UFC 244 bout on the 2nd November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, I think the toughest motherf*cker is the champ, the real champ,\u201d said Al Iaquinta who feels the &#8216;Baddest Motherf*cker&#8217; title undermines the real belt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, it\u2019s a little weird that they\u2019re actually going to put a belt on somebody that\u2019s not the champ, but those are two bad motherf*ckers, so it\u2019s whatever. It\u2019s not my thing, I\u2019m more of a traditionalist, the champ is the champ. I would feel very disrespected as a champion if they were putting a belt on someone else in my weight class,\u201d he said (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/10\/4\/20898351\/al-iaquinta-thinks-bmf-title-is-disrespectful-to-bonafide-ufc-champions\">via MMA Fighting<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Raging Al&#8217; had a shot at the lightweight title in <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-223\/ufc-223-results-khabib-nurmagomedov-vs-al-iaquinta\/\">2018 against Khabib Nurmagomedov<\/a> at UFC 223. He lost to the current champion via decision but is credited for being one of the only opponents to give &#8216;The Eagle&#8217; real adversity. Prior to that, he beat Diego Sanchez and the &#8216;BMF&#8217; contender, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/ufc-fighters-react-controversial-iaquinta-vs-masvidal-decision\/\">Jorge &#8216;Gamebred&#8217; Masvidal<\/a>. He praised his Miami opponent and believes he deserves credit, (even if he doesn&#8217;t approve of the unofficial belt.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s always been a tough guy, he\u2019s always been tough so he\u2019s finally getting the credit that he deserves and I think he\u2019s found something new at 170. I think he enjoys being a little bigger and not cutting so much weight and depleting himself. It\u2019s more like he\u2019s just street fighting, I think that\u2019s more his kind of thing. He gets in there, he doesn\u2019t cut too much weight and I\u2019m happy that he\u2019s found a lot of success there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Al Iaquinta&#8217;s comments? Sound off in the comments below at Penn Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York native Al Iaquinta isn&#8217;t opposed to his former opponent, Jorge Masvidal facing Nate Diaz on his home turf at Madison Square Gardens. However, he doesn&#8217;t approve of the &#8216;BMF&#8217; title attributed to their UFC 244 bout on the 2nd November. \u201cI don\u2019t know, I think the toughest motherf*cker is the champ, the real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54472,"featured_media":308750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10523,10515,10123,39610,53692],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Al Iaquinta calls &#039;BMF&#039; title disrespectful to real UFC champions | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lightweight fighter Al Iaquinta disapproves of the &#039;BMF&#039; belt for Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal&#039;s UFC 244 bout on the 2nd of November\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/al-iaquinta-calls-bmf-title-disrespectful-to-real-ufc-champions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Al Iaquinta calls &#039;BMF&#039; 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