Matt Mitrione on Roy Nelson fight: “I’m not trying to get myself back in good graces with UFC.”

Matt Mitrione wasn’t exactly  best friends with UFC President Dana White when he turned down a fight with Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix Champion Daniel Cormier. White didn’t like the fact Mitrione wasn’t game for the short  notice fight, and even called him “f*cking insane” for not taking the scrap. Now that Mitrione has stepped in to face Roy Nelson in place of Shane Carwin, fans are heckling him and telling  him he is just doing it to get back on the good side of White. Mitrione said that’s  not the case…

He told MMAFighting:

“It’s good to be a company guy, but in the same breath it’s also not intelligent to do career suicide… Trust me, I get tweets from idiots talking about, ‘Oh, you’re trying to get yourself back in good graces.’ F— that, man, I’m not trying to get myself back in good graces. This is a fight I think is winnable for me and that’s reason why I threw my name in the hat. I think that I belong there. If I don’t, if I go out there and get smoked, OK, if I get another chance, give me Phil DeFries and we’ll see what happens. But I think this is a fight like I said where I could easily be in this situation if I didn’t lose a decision. I could be there. So it is what it is. I definitely didn’t take the fight to get in good graces or to change the wave of negative attention towards me.”

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