I am just trying to do my job and fight here.#
I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote.
I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting.#
There comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop.
50 world tours, 200 press conferences, 1 million interviews, 2 million photo shoots, and at the end of it all I'm left looking down the barrel of a lens, staring defeat in the face, thinking of nothing but my incorrect fight preparation. And the many distractions that led to this.#
Nothing else was going through my mind.#
It is time to go back and live the life that got me this life.
Sitting in a car on the way to some dump in Conneticut or somewhere, to speak to Tim and Suzie on the nobody gives a **** morning show did not get me this life.
Talking to some lady that deep down doesn't give a **** about what I'm doing, but just wants some sound bites so she can maybe get her little tight *** a nice raise, and I'm cool with that too, I've been giving you all raises. But I need to focus on me now.
I'm coming for my revenge here.#
I flew an entire team to Portugal and to Iceland to make my adjustments in preparation and fix my errors I made with the weight and the cardio prep.#
With the right adjustments and the right focus, I will finish what I started in that last fight.#
I will not do this if I am back on the road handing out flyers again.
I will always play the game and play it better than anybody, but just for this one, where I am coming off a loss, I asked for some leeway where I can just train and focus. I did not shut down all media requests. I simply wanted a slight adjustment.
But it was denied.#
There had been 10 million dollars allocated for the promotion of this event is what they told me.#
So as a gesture of good will, I went and not only saved that 10 million dollars in promotion money, I then went and tripled it for them.#
And all with one tweet.
Keep that 10 mill to promote the other bums that need it. My shows are good.#
I must isolate myself now.
I am facing a taller, longer and heavier man. I need to prepare correctly this time.#
I can not dance for you this time.
It is time for the other monkeys to dance. I've danced us all the way here.#
Nate's little mush head looks good up on that stage these days. Stuff him in front of the camera for it.#
He came in with no **** to do that last one. I'd already done press conferences, interviews and shot the ads before RDA pulled out.
Maybe I'll hit Cabo this time and skull some shots pre-fight with no obligation.
I'm doing what I need for me now.#
It is time to be selfish with my training again. It is the only way.#
I feel the $400million I have generated for the company in my last three events, all inside 8 months, is enough to get me this slight leeway.#
I am still ready to go for UFC 200.#
I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions.
If this is not enough or they feel I have not deserved to sit this promotion run out this one time, well then I don't know what to say.#
For the record also -#
For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations -#
I AM NOT RETIRED.
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