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“I don’t know how folks jumped on the Nate bandwagon so hard, folks just think he is such a fighter, but the man doesn’t want to fight, that’s the bottom line,” Lee said during a recent interview on Cage Side Submissions (via Fan Sided). “If a man doesn’t want to fight, I’m not a bully. I’m not going to keep berating him and going at him.”
That’s why “The Motown Phenom” is shifting his attention to another top Lightweight, as Lee says he wants the opportunity to face Edson Barboza. And should he score that bout, he intends to make Khabib Nurmagomedov’s beatdown over the Brazilian at UFC 219 (see it) look like a Sunday picnic.
“Right now I’m looking at Barboza. I think Barboza is a great fight, a really good matchup for me. He fought a lot of the guys who are at the top and I’m gonna whoop his ass harder than Khabib did,” Lee explained. “I’m also looking at somebody like Eddie Alvarez who is up there without a fight, he’s sitting on the sidelines, he’s trying to avoid me as much as he can. There’s a couple of fights that I’m looking at, that I’m interested in. They are not all necessarily above me, obviously, that’s where you want to look but really those rankings don’t mean shit, and they don’t mean shit to me.”
Lee Will No Longer Bully Diaz, Calls Out Barboza
“I don’t know how folks jumped on the Nate bandwagon so hard, folks just think he is such a fighter, but the man doesn’t want to fight, that’s the bottom line,” Lee said during a recent interview on Cage Side Submissions (via Fan Sided). “If a man doesn’t want to fight, I’m not a bully. I’m not going to keep berating him and going at him.”
That’s why “The Motown Phenom” is shifting his attention to another top Lightweight, as Lee says he wants the opportunity to face Edson Barboza. And should he score that bout, he intends to make Khabib Nurmagomedov’s beatdown over the Brazilian at UFC 219 (see it) look like a Sunday picnic.
“Right now I’m looking at Barboza. I think Barboza is a great fight, a really good matchup for me. He fought a lot of the guys who are at the top and I’m gonna whoop his ass harder than Khabib did,” Lee explained. “I’m also looking at somebody like Eddie Alvarez who is up there without a fight, he’s sitting on the sidelines, he’s trying to avoid me as much as he can. There’s a couple of fights that I’m looking at, that I’m interested in. They are not all necessarily above me, obviously, that’s where you want to look but really those rankings don’t mean shit, and they don’t mean shit to me.”
Lee Will No Longer Bully Diaz, Calls Out Barboza
