The 32-year old Masvidal said that the UFC had finally figured out his worth of late, that he is the kind of guy who can take out undesirables who find themselves straying into title contention. The Miami native didn’t say that the UFC asked him specifically to take out Maia for those express purposes, but he implied as much by pointing to the current situation.
“I’m going to plead the fifth because I do have a job, bro,” he said when asked directly about it.
Still, why did the UFC suddenly see the light?
“Because they did the math, the ancient secret math,” he said. “They’re looking at me and going, yo, this guy is complete bro, in all f*cking areas. We could use this guy to eliminate the guys that we don’t like. So maybe Masvidal, we can’t push him that much, but we could use him to eliminate the others, because this guy for real. He’s a bad guy.”
Jorge Masvidal says UFC using him to take out the guys they ‘don’t like’