Last night Roy Nelson set a UFC record for the most punches absorbed without ever being TKOd or KOd. That’s absolutely wild considering Nelson’s relatively short time in the Octagon. Nelson has taken 487 punches to the head and now, it must be said, maybe it’s affected his decision making progress. Apparently Roy turned down Dana White and Joe Silva’s offer of a newer, more lucrative contract before his fight last night with Stipe Miocic, and now Roy is coming off a loss, surely less money and a beat up face.
At least he’s in the record books.
There’s no love lost for the heavyweight in Dana White’s eyes. last night after UFC 161 Dana had plenty of information to revela to the general public.
“I want Roy Nelson in the UFC, we never said we didn’t want Roy Nelson in the UFC. If I didn’t want Roy Nelson in the UFC, I’d tell ya – he’d know it, everybody’d know it. You know?
“Roy and I don’t have to see eye to eye and be best friends for him to fight here. We don’t have to do that.
“It doesn’t have to do with Roy’s shape, his physique, or anything like that. I’ve said it before. Roy came to me one time and said I’m having a hard time getting sponsors.
“I said ‘Well that’s weird. I can’t understand why you would have a hard time getting sponsors. How about you cut your hair, lose some weight, get rid of the walk in song I’m Fat? And take yourself seriously – you’re a tough guy, you’ve got a lot of talent. You’re a very well-rounded fighter.
“He said ‘OK.’
“I saw him at the next press conference, his mullett was longer, he grew a beard down to here, and he was maybe six pounds less than the last time I had seen him.
“I said ‘It is good to see you took my advice.’
“Don’t complain to me – who wants to put their logo on that? Nobody. Nobody wants to put their logo on that.”
“But if you ask him, he’ll tell you he’s the smartest guy in the world. He’s just not.”
“That’s my frustration with Roy Nelson. If he took himself seriously, if he lost some of the weight, and really trained, imagine what that guy would be able to do. Look at the things that he does now, in the shape that he’s in and the things that he does now. He is his worst enemy. Everybody wants to talk about how popular he is… he ain’t so f@$%king popular that he’s making Georges St-Pierre money, or Anderson Silva money, or Cain Velasquez money or Junior dos Santos money. The guys that are the top of the division, you know? When you’re the best you make a $#!*load of money. When you’re mediocre, you make mediocre money.”
So in other words, we’ll be seeing Roy knockout mediocre talent for years to come, while we’ll see him get absolutely demolished by anyone in the top ten. Roy, please go to 205.
