Mike Davis goes off on UFC commentators: 'Put some respect on my name'
Mike Davis is not happy with the commentators who worked his most recent fight.
The UFC lightweight took to Instagram on Thursday to vent about the commenting of his TKO win over Mitch Ramirez this past Saturday at UFC on ESPN 70 in Nashville, Tenn. Daniel Cormier and Laura Sanko served as color commentators for the event, while Brendan Fitzgerald did the play-by-play role.
Although Davis (12-3 MMA, 5-2 UFC) got his hand raised in the end, Ramirez (8-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) did have his moments in the second round, and the broadcast team thought Davis was fading in the moments the fight wasn't going his way.
Davis finds those comments disrespectful and untrue, as he assures that he wasn't tired – he was fighting smart.
"Every time I fight, there's one thing I can't f*cking stand, and it's the commentator," Davis said in a video posted to Instagram. "It's what they're saying about me in a fight. I've never had a fight where they're just like, 'Damn, Mike is doing good. Mike is slipping punches. Mike is countering. Mike's wrestling is great. Mike's back control is good. Body locks here. This and that.' It's always bad-mouthing everything I do.
"They always think I'm tired. Show me one fight where I got tired, where I stopped fighting. Show me one. Sodiq Yusuff, I fought with one leg nearly the whole f*cking fight. Mason Jones, I fought back the entire f*cking fight. Thomas Gifford, Viacheslav (Borshchev), Fares (Ziam). I hold back pace, my pressure, my punches because one: I'm accurate, I don't need to throw a thousand punches to hit you. I know when to hit you, how to hit you, why to hit you. And two: If you are attacking me constantly, and I'm just evading and blocking your punches like I did in the Mitch Ramirez fight this weekend, you're going to get tired. I'm not. When you're too tired to throw back, I'm going to capitalize on it and finish you like I did this weekend. Put some respect on my name. I'm not f*cking tired."
With the win over Ramirez, Davis bounced back into the win column after a decision loss to Fares Ziam in February. Prior to the loss to Ziam, Davis was on a four-fight wining streak with two finishes and one Fight of the Night award.
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