“I haven’t signed a contract yet,” Al Iaquinta reveals the bizarre negotiating tactic UFC against him


“I haven’t signed a contract yet,” Al Iaquinta reveals the bizarre negotiating tactic UFC against him

Al Iaquinta

Al Iaquinta is going to return inside the octagon to take on Bobby Green at UFC 268, Al Iaquinta hasn’t competed since UFC 243 and although he is interested to face Green, he wasn’t impressed by UFC’s way of announcing this fight.

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Iaquinta appeared in an interview with Ariel Helwani from The MMA Hour where he talked about the way the negotiations went, and how annoyed he was with how UFC announced his fight.

He said, “I was watching the fights on Saturday and I fell asleep watching them. I woke up and looked at my phone and I had 9,000 messages — Instagram this and Twitter that. I’m like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ And then I’m seeing they announced the fight. I was like, ‘What the f*ck? I haven’t signed a contract yet.’

“I hate when they do that because they’ve done this to me once before and it’s really not the right thing to do. It bothers me a lot, especially since they know I’ve been trying to get a hold of them. But I’m sure it will get taken care of.”

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I’ve spent so much time, energy and money to get to this point where I’m able to fight again,” Al Iaquinta is looking forward to his comeback

Al Iaquinta vs Dan Hooker
Al Iaquinta vs Dan Hooker

Iaquinta is on a two-fight skid, and he’s been dealing with a number of injuries for the past couple of years. According to him, he has worked extremely hard to get back in the octagon again, and he will make the most out of this opportunity.

“Over the last two years, I’ve spent so much time, energy and money to get to this point where I’m able to fight again and I’m looking forward and feeling good to fight,” Iaquinta stated. “I had two surgeries in a week about a year ago. My knee I’ve always had problems with and the doctor said there was some scar tissue in there, so they wanted to go in and take that scar tissue out. I got a second opinion, he said to do some injections, physical therapy, so I did all that for six months and it was still giving me pain.”

He added, “I ended up getting the surgery. It took forever for me to start feeling good again, but because it had been so long, I was overcompensating, so it was the hip, the back. I was not doing good. It was not fun.”

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