{"id":88515,"date":"2014-03-05T08:06:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=88515"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:59:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:59:57","slug":"melvin-guillard-on-upcoming-opponent-michael-johnson-he-aint-no-gangster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/melvin-guillard-on-upcoming-opponent-michael-johnson-he-aint-no-gangster\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvin Guillard on Upcoming Opponent Michael Johnson: &#8216;He aint no gangster&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/melvin-guillard-leaves-blackzilians-camp-returns-to-team-jackson-winklejohn-ufc-news\/guillard-new-site-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25199\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/guillard-new-site1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"guillard new site\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLet\u2019s get this straight. Me and Michael Johnson were never really friends. We were just training partners. Let\u2019s straighten that out right there. We never hung out, we never shot marbles together, we didn\u2019t go out and eat dinner or nothing like that. I only saw him at the gym, and after that, I went my way and he went his way. I never really cared for him as a person. I think he\u2019s a good fighter, but as a person, when you move your friend out here and then throw your friend under the bus and get him get him kicked off the team. I think that\u2019s [expletive] as a friend. How could you call yourself a friend?&#8230; I think he\u2019s just one of those guys who grew up scared of people and then learned how to fight somewhere along the way. I can look right through that kid. He ain\u2019t no gangster, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cIf I had to say who got the better of each other, about 80 percent of the time I knew I got the best of him. I got more experience, I\u2019m the better fighter, I\u2019m the stronger fighter, I\u2019m the faster fighter, and I got knockout power. Mike\u2019s been rallying up some wins lately, but I\u2019m any fighter\u2019s \u2026 kryptonite. Nobody wants to fight me. In the back of his mind, he\u2019s probably, like, \u2018Damn, I really have to fight Melvin Guillard?\u2019&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This weekend Melvin Guillard returns to action against former Blackzilian teammate, Michael Johnson. In a recent interview on &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/the-great-mma-debate-podcast-jimi-manuwa-melvin-guillard-and-ufc-170-fallout?vbox=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Great MMA Debate<\/a>&#8216; podcast he touched on facing off with Johnson and what he thinks about him as a person and former training partner.<\/p>\n<p>The two fight this weekend in the UFC Fight Night 37 co-main event on UFC Fight Pass.<\/p>\n<p>Who thinks Guillard can back up these words on Saturday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet\u2019s get this straight. Me and Michael Johnson were never really friends. We were just training partners. Let\u2019s straighten that out right there. We never hung out, we never shot marbles together, we didn\u2019t go out and eat dinner or nothing like that. I only saw him at the gym, and after that, I went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[87,6845,7701,7344,3408,6323,614,11,649,15,16],"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>Melvin Guillard on Upcoming Opponent Michael Johnson: &#039;He aint no gangster&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\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\/ufcnews\/melvin-guillard-on-upcoming-opponent-michael-johnson-he-aint-no-gangster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Melvin Guillard on Upcoming Opponent Michael Johnson: &#039;He aint no gangster&#039; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cLet\u2019s get this straight. 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