Roy Nelson: UFC stopping me from being heavyweight Donald Cerrone

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http://www.mmamania.com/2016/7/2/12...ping-me-from-being-heavyweight-donald-cerrone

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...But as the 40-year-old begins to enter the last few years of his MMA career, he would like to be given free reign to fight as much as possible and earn all the money he can.

"Me personally, if I could fight every other month, that’d be great," said Nelson in a recent interview with MMA Junkie Radio. "I’d be the Donald Cerrone of the heavyweight division. But they don’t allow me to fight like that."

It's often hard for fighters to live up to the fight activity and overall production rate of someone like Cerrone, who has fought two times more than "Big Country" since the start of 2014, but Nelson has a point. If he's willing and able to make quick turnarounds and fight three, four, or maybe even five times a year, why not let him?

UFC may be cautious considering the division isn't that deep and it needs veterans like Nelson to last, but you can't blame a guy for wanting to fight more often.

 

[DIABOLUS]

Smaller heavyweight division and no Super heavyweight division to bounce back and forth between.

 

[Death By Samson]

If he wants to be as active as Cowboy, why would the UFC hold him back? I don't get it.

 

[Leinster Rugby]

No. Burger King stopping you from being that

 

[Magx951]

If he wants to be as active as Cowboy, why would the UFC hold him back? I don't get it.

he wants good competition but he also wants to fight all the time

In the heavyweight division that's mutually exclusive

 

[Origami]

They simply don't have heavyweights enough to that.

 

[Tormund]

This guy is fucken crazy, just a couple of days ago he was one half of the biggest fight in UFC history according to him.

 

[Namek]

There aren't really that many HW fights.

 

[Haj01]

They could do a weekly show where he fights obesity.

"looking to lose weight - with big country"

 

[D4C]

He'd also get punch drunk by the end of the year.

 

[purpleheart]

Sorry Roy, nobody wants to see you fight on every event.

 

[SimonNova]

I really dont see why the UFC would be stopping him to fight often on purpose. He is always entertaining, except that fight vs Rosholt but who can blame him? He either wins by KO or get beaten to a pulp in almost every fight, fans want that. The reason he doesnt fight often is that HW is a wasteland of a division with too few fighters and fewer legit ones.

 

[CRuck1980]

If he wants to be as active as Cowboy, why would the UFC hold him back? I don't get it.

Just making excuses for his laziness

 

[Thesnake101]

If they'd let him, he would be just like Cerrone... Minus the winning part.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

There's just not enough active HWs on the UFC roster for them to do that.

 

[chubbman]

Given the amount of brain trauma he receives every fight, it's in his best interests not to fight that often, also, they don't have enough heavyweights for that

 

[mikehunt]

He should paint more...

 

[Arm Barbarian]

The difference is, Cowboy WINS most of his fights, and does so in exciting fashion.

Outside of the overhand right, Roy is basically a Gooey human punching bag.

 

[Bad Guy]

Burger King is the one stopping you.

 

[Fahcough]

No way he makes 170 this year