{"id":95070,"date":"2014-04-25T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T18:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=95070"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:45:27","slug":"jake-shields-ufc-release-not-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/jake-shields-ufc-release-not-a-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Shields: &#8216;UFC Release Not A Big Deal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufc-171-results-lombard-dominates-shields-in-a-unimpressive-decision-win\/jake-shields-wins-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89726\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89726\" title=\"Jake Shields Wins PNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Jake-Shields-Wins-PNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Jake-Shields-Wins-PNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Jake-Shields-Wins-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Jake-Shields-Wins-PNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following his recent and surprising UFC release, Top 10 welterweight, Jake Shields signed a multi-fight deal with the World Series of Fighting.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/radio\/Beatdown-Jake-Shields-3717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sherdog.com<\/a>, Jake confirmed his intentions to stay at welterweight and thinks a title shot should be in his near future.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI was a little bit annoyed and a little bit irritated, but it\u2019s not that big of a deal. It is what it is. You\u2019ve just got to move on. A year or two ago it would have been really bad, with no options, but I think right now MMA is starting to blow up outside the UFC. World Series of Fighting seems to really be doing good things and we were lucky enough to work out a deal with them and move forward with my career at that point.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I would think I would be up for a title fight in one, two at most. I\u2019m still a name. I\u2019m arguably top 10, so it makes sense to put me in for a title fight pretty fast, but at this point I\u2019m not too worried about it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following his recent and surprising UFC release, Top 10 welterweight, Jake Shields signed a multi-fight deal with the World Series of Fighting. 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