“I’ll be completely honest with you, I was not excited about Germany,” Jouban sad. “I turned it down. Because this is the thing: I was looking for a fight, and I didn’t know who I wanted to fight, but I needed a timeline that I was gonna be healed. So I was asking for July 6th or 7th in Vegas."
“[Then] they threw me Germany, July 22nd,” Jouban said. “So I went back to them and I was pissed, and I was like, ‘Hell no. Why am I going to Germany?’ You know, why am I flying 18 hours and spending all this money on flights and hotels when I could fight right at home? So I turned it down, man. I turned down the fight. And this is in the same timeline that the stuff was going on with Yair Rodriguez, where he turned down a fight and they cut him."
“I went back and accepted it because I figured, you know Dana White put out a tweet the other day I think, saying, ‘If we offer you a fight, it’s best for you to take it.’ “I took the fight, wasn’t very pleased about it, that they were making me travel across the world when I could be fighting in my backyard multiple opportunities,” he continued. “I moved on though, man. You can’t dwell on shit that’s out of your control, right? So I did that, accepted it.”
https://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/exc...tion-influenced-him-to-take-fight-in-hamburg/
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Dana finally taking control of these independent contractors. Letting them know who the big boss man is. Except for Diaz bros and Conor. They got Dana by the balls.
“[Then] they threw me Germany, July 22nd,” Jouban said. “So I went back to them and I was pissed, and I was like, ‘Hell no. Why am I going to Germany?’ You know, why am I flying 18 hours and spending all this money on flights and hotels when I could fight right at home? So I turned it down, man. I turned down the fight. And this is in the same timeline that the stuff was going on with Yair Rodriguez, where he turned down a fight and they cut him."
“I went back and accepted it because I figured, you know Dana White put out a tweet the other day I think, saying, ‘If we offer you a fight, it’s best for you to take it.’ “I took the fight, wasn’t very pleased about it, that they were making me travel across the world when I could be fighting in my backyard multiple opportunities,” he continued. “I moved on though, man. You can’t dwell on shit that’s out of your control, right? So I did that, accepted it.”
https://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/exc...tion-influenced-him-to-take-fight-in-hamburg/
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Dana finally taking control of these independent contractors. Letting them know who the big boss man is. Except for Diaz bros and Conor. They got Dana by the balls.
