{"id":22244,"date":"2020-02-15T07:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T07:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=22244"},"modified":"2020-02-15T07:05:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T07:05:23","slug":"im-pissed-they-keep-doubting-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=22244","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Pissed &#8230; They Keep Doubting Me.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>Esther Lin, MMA Fighting<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Corey Anderson kind of floated through his first five years in the UFC without making much of an impact, despite starting things off going 6-2 over the first two years. Back to back losses to Jimi Manuwa and Ovince St. Preux in 2017 didn&rsquo;t help, but once Corey got back on the winning path he made it clear he wasn&rsquo;t willing to be ignored any more. After four straight wins, he certainly should have more hype behind him, but it&rsquo;s only with his most recent win over Johnny Walker at UFC 244 that he&rsquo;s getting serious press.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s unclear whether a bigger part of that has to do with him releasing the anger of being ignored during his interviews, or if it&rsquo;s the release of that anger in the cage that&rsquo;s helped most. The Walker win was his first knockout win in three years. And while we&rsquo;ll have to see if he brings his inner fury into the cage against Jan Blachowicz on Saturday in Rio Rancho, he&rsquo;s certainly brought it when talking to the media.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"readmore\" data-anthem-component-data='{\"stories\":[{\"title\":\"Face Off! Anderson Stares Down Blachowicz In Rio Rancho!\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/2\/14\/21137975\/corey-anderson-vs-jan-blachowicz-staredown-video-ufc-rio-rancho-weigh-ins-mma\"},{\"title\":\"UFC Rio Rancho - New Blood!\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/2\/14\/21137003\/ufc-fight-night-167-new-blood-octagon-debut-brok-weaver-daniel-rodriguez-shanna-young-rio-rancho-mma\"},{\"title\":\"Predictions! Deconstructing &lsquo;Anderson Vs Blachowicz&rsquo;\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/2\/14\/21135478\/ufc-rio-rancho-preview-anderson-vs-blachowicz-predictions-mma\"}]}'><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&rdquo;I&rsquo;m very confident with myself, I&rsquo;ve found my stride,&rdquo; Anderson told ESPN after the ceremonial weigh-ins. &ldquo;After the OSP knockout I had to go back and go to the drawing board. I realized that I had never done any basic classes, any basic boxing. Never took a muay thai, kickboxing class. So I really dedicated myself for months with people who came from work, from a 9 to 5, taking classes with them and just learning the basics. Once I figured that out and got back into it, you see the last two years have been phenomenal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Which is what makes it so frustrating that he hasn&rsquo;t been getting the attention he feels he deserves.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&rdquo;Even after everything I&rsquo;ve done, the three fights before the Johnny Walker [win], everyone was like &lsquo;Corey has beaten nobody,&rsquo;&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I beat Ilir Latifi, who was ranked fourth, and Glover Teixiera ranked third who fought for a title. And you can sit there and say those are nobodies? So that was kinda disrespectful to me and then for the UFC to call me and say &lsquo;We want you to fight Khalil Rountree and then Luke Rockhold and then Johnny Walker. None of these guys are top five. Why am I fighting outside? And it&rsquo;s like I was telling my wife, I remember going to the fight like I was really going to kill somebody. Like &lsquo;If he dies, he dies.&rsquo; That&rsquo;s the only way. Like I&rsquo;m pissed. They keep doubting me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"actionbox\" data-anthem-component-data='{\"title\":\"&lt;a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"http:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/595608\/9070?sharedid=MMAMania\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Watch UFC Fight Night 167 On ESPN+ Here!&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;\",\"description\":\"Stream all of &ldquo;Anderson vs. Blachowicz&rdquo;-led fights LIVE from Rio Rancho for just $4.99 &mdash; don&rsquo;t miss a single second of face-punching action!\",\"label\":\"&lt;strong&gt;SIGN UP NOW!&lt;\/strong&gt;\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/595608\/9070?sharedid=MMAMania\"}'><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As for Blachowicz, Anderson sees a fight that he&rsquo;ll take no matter where it goes.<\/p>\n<p>&rdquo;I can beat him everywhere,&rdquo; Anderson declared. &ldquo;You saw with Johnny Walker. He was fireworks in a bottle, that&rsquo;s what the UFC said all week. He&rsquo;s knocking people out, but who got knocked out? I can do it all. I use my wrestling primarily because that&rsquo;s who I am. I&rsquo;m not going to go away from it. But if the opportunity is there to hit him with these hands, he&rsquo;s going to feel these knuckles.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"25014-4024605408\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Corey Anderson kind of floated through his first five years in the UFC without making much of an impact, despite starting things off going 6-2 over the first two years. Back to back losses to Jimi Manuwa and Ovince St. Preux in 2017 didn&rsquo;t help, but once Corey got back on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}