Ever heard the name of Antonio McKee? Not have more casual fans of mixed martial arts. The 40-year-old man with a record of 24-3-2 has never achieved the bigs or gotten exposure you feel it deserves. Part of the problem could be that the artist takedown, which has not lost since 2003, has turned in decision victories in battles 12-of-14. So McKee is pulling out all the stops to get eyes on her next fight saying that if he don't end Luciano Azevedo on September 10th, he will be retired. McKee of FanHouse said Ben Fowlkes:
"This is what I said. I said, if this fight goes to a decision and a decision is boring, I retire. If this fight is not the fight of the night, I retire. Basically, if I go out there and put on a show, just destroy and annihilate this guy, then I'm done. If it's one of those games where I take him down, ground and pound, holding him there, retire.I am done.[...]
"Do not have to stand up and get hit in the face.None I can stop by their taking down and nobody can hit me when we're standing. what the fans want to see are the knockouts, the blood, the rough stuff. Want to see that, and I'm not on this. "
Without a loss for seven years, why hasn't he been signed by UFC? Pointing to the popularity of the ground and pound fighters like Matt Hughes, Georges St. Pierre and Sean Sherk, McKee says that those kids have one thing going for them. McKee, again from FanHouse:
"I think a lot of it is racist. And I'm not saying racist against all people of color, necessarily, but racist towards me. Are these guys white that do the same exact thing, why would anyone not say this stuff on them? "
McKee says that nobody gives the UFC welterweight champ guff for his deliberate style.
"Georges St. Pierre, he also doesn't get hit most. And then, he says, ' I'm not a brawler; I am a mixed martial artist. 'And then there are people talking about how he is great.I have to do exactly what you have seen it done, but better! "
Just look at gentlemen African-American Yves Edwards, he said.
"The guy that you had with them the longest was Yves Edwards.He lost a fight, scored triangled, then had a stop due to a cut against Joe Stevenson and they cut him.What? you have white guys that have been deleted three or four times and keep coming back. Chuck [Liddell] was deleted so many times that they need to make a stone with his name on it. "
Maybe it will work this stunt ... who knows? is right McKee? hath he play it smart? not to take any opportunity over the years, scored successes, but got the attention of anyone. Congrats on a good career.
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