Velasquez sides with UFC in McGregor saga

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Chalk up Cain Velasquez on the UFC's side in the promotion's disagreement with Conor McGregor.

Velasquez, the former UFC heavyweight champion, said he doesn't personally care whether or not McGregor is fighting at UFC 200, but he doesn't blame the UFC for pulling him for not wanting to fly into the United States to do press.

"I'm doing it, everybody else is doing it," Velasquez said Tuesday at a UFC 200 media day. "Can I see his side? No, not really. I'm doing it. Everybody else is doing it. If he had to do way more than what we had to do, OK then, yes. I could definitely see that. But if he's not, if he's doing the same thing, then no. We're all doing it."

"I feel that we all do have obligations to do this kind of stuff," Velasquez said. "I'm a guy that hates doing this. When I first started to fight, I thought it was just training and fighting and that was it. 'OK, you've gotta do interviews.' [I was like,] 'What?' Doing it now, yeah I'm kind of comfortable with doing it. I can do it pretty easily, I feel like. I feel like it is part of the job. You've gotta do this and train and fight."

LINK: Cain Velasquez on Conor McGregor situation: 'Can I see his side? No, not really'
 
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Good strategy for Cain going forward: spend more time in press conferences and interviews, less time in the gym. Maybe then he'll show up healthy fight time! Huh!
 
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Conor brings in more viewers and cash. I understand where he's coming from but it's not the same. and I'm not even saying Conor's doing the right thing but after how the shit turned out the way it has, it's not THAT crazy for UFC to allow someone who made them lot more money than anyone else to take a slightly different route. After all, UFC's been hooking up Conor with everything else, even Dana making personal visits to the Presidential Suites to hang out with Conor. has Dana ever done that with any other fighters?
 
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DannyNL said:
Good strategy for Cain going forward: spend more time in press conferences and interviews, less time in the gym. Maybe then he'll show up healthy fight time! Huh!
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He's already said he is going to be sparring less. Maybe this is what he meant.
 
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Cain can't generate 170k retweets with a single tweet. It isn't apples to apples here.
 
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Zeph said:
Cain can't generate 170k retweets with a single tweet. It isn't apples to apples here.
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But Cain can speak Mexican. And he has brown pride. And obviously brown is a darker color than Irish. Boooom!!!
 
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The fighters that agree with Conor's side are probably the quiet ones that don't speak up. They know it's not a good idea to disagree with Zuffa publicly.
 
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Whether or not we agree with the man, Cain always seems to come off as genuine and rather intelligent.
 
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Another example of why it won't be so easy to organize fighters into a union. Cain might feel differently if he were selling 1.5 million pay per views, and had just completed almost two years of non-stop media obligations, but why think outside the box you're still paying a mortgage on?

 
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Mad Dog said:
I would bet there are more that don't want to speak up and disagree with Zuffa publicly.
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100%. I think morale is at an all time low among the UFC roster, but for most guys it's better than what they could do outside of the UFC so they shut their mouths and don't rustle feathers.
 
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What an asshole....He should have kept his mouth shut.

Fighters need to have eachothers backs in situations where there are fair disagreements with promoters.

Mcgregor has done so much press for his last three fights that it is cutting into his training. He told them he would do the New York leg of the media trip. That should have been enough. How many other stars are there on the card? Why cant any of them handle some of the media promotion for the damn fight?

Did anyone else notice that Mcgregor was the only one scheduled to be on Live with Michael and Kelly? This is bullshit. He acts as if the UFC asks the same of him as they do of Mcgregor....they dont.

Noone wants to hear Cain's canned responses. "My injuries are healed 100% and Im ready to put on a good show and go back after my belt." That shit is fucking boring and does nothing to sell the fight.

Fact is, the UFC was going to have Conor hit the morning show circuit and the late night circuit before he left new york. Thats like 7-12 more media obligations than they were asking of any other fighter.....whats the problem if he missed the Vegas/Stockton trip....He was still going to give about 100 more interviews than any other fighter between now and July and about half of those would have been nationally and internationally televised.

At least Mcgregor doesn't call in sick all the goddamn time.

You know whats not fair cain??? Keeping a title for 3 years and fighting twice.....

He has some nerve making it sound like all the fighters were being asked for the same thing.....Mcgregor was going to have WAY more obligations than anyone else...as always...while all of the people sharing the card with him do the occasional mma hour or youtube interview.....

Cain should stop speaking on matters above his drawing power.....

Fun fact: In Mcgregors last two fights....he sold more PPVs than all of Cains PPVs combined.....and one of those Cain fights was against Lesnar.....

TL;DR: Shut up, Cain.
 
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Of course cain sided with Zuffa.. he needs them otherwise he's hardly making anything.. his personality is that of drying paint and most fans dont give a fuck about him.
 
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