Earlier this week Dana White revealed that Jorge Masvidal could be in line to fight Demian Maia next after Nick Diaz failed to accept the match-up, but it seems that match-up won’t be happening either.
“People are already turning fights down,” Masvidal told MMAJunkie.com just days after TKO’ing Donald Cerrone at UFC On FOX 23. “Demian Maia didn’t want this. They offered him the fight, and he didn’t want it. I guess he wants to sit out. So I want to fight these top-10 dudes. Give me the toughest dudes you’ve got.”
Now riding a three-fight winning streak at 170lbs that’s seen him leap up to No.5 in the rankings, Masvidal says he’s eager to get back into the Octagon as soon as possible and has now floated current No.7 contender Neil Magny as someone he’d like to throwdown with.
“I’ll tell who you I don’t like, because when I called him out with some respectful (expletive), like, hey, your opponent fell out and I’m ready to fight, he was a coward, saying I didn’t have enough pictures on social media, and who the (expletive) am I,” Masvidal said. “And now, he’s dying to fight me – that little wimp Magny.
“It’s not that he turned me down – it was the way he said it. Acting like he didn’t know who I was, and now he knows who I am? Get the (expletive) out of here.”
For his part, Magny admits that he didn’t want to fight Masvidal at that time due to fact that he’d not made an impact in the welterweight division yet, but after watching him notch up big wins over the likes of Jake Ellenberger and Donald Cerrone it’s now a fight that he’s eager to accept.
“He’s definitely piqued my interest now,” Magny told MMAJunkie. “He’s beaten two guys in the top 15 and one guy in the top five. He has some skills, and I think it would be a good matchup for me at this point.”
So, the two fighters may have done some of the UFC matchmakers work for them, though it remains to be seen whether they may have a different idea on how to proceed.
