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10-23-2009 05:30 PM:
It's not exactly the way you want to start a new year. Josh Neer was facing jailtime and losing his job after going on a driving rampage in Iowa. The UFC doesn't always employ the most sympathetic approach with its fighters when they get in serious trouble. Neer told Cagewriter that he knew he made an awful mistake but wasn't going to make himself sick about his future with the promotion (3:10 mark):
"I really didn't know. to be honest, if they had cut me, I would've fought somewhere else. I'm a fighter first and foremost."
Neer said he would've been fine if that had been the call:
"That would've been their decision and I would've had to have to lived with it and moved on."
That said, Neer admits without a consistent fight schedule there'd be more room for him to go off the deep end again. When asked why he thought Junie Browning was cut after his drug overdose and hospital rampage, Neer said his situation was different. Browning had screwed up many times and Neer was a first-time offender.
Technically, it was the second drunk driving related incident for Neer, but he is a much more-promotable commodity than Browning. Neer, 26, has the potential to be a Chris Lytle-type fighter who can fill the middle of cards and be a candidate for Fight of the Night each time out. He's got a nice matchup here against Gleison Tibau, a ground specialist, tomorrow at UFC 104. We'll see if Neer learned his lesson against Kurt Pellegrino at UFC 101. Neer lost the fight because he was too willing to fight from his back where Pellegrino cruised to a victory on points.
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Cagewriter is an MMA blog edited by Steve Cofield.
It's not exactly the way you want to start a new year. Josh Neer was facing jailtime and losing his job after going on a driving rampage in Iowa. The UFC doesn't always employ the most sympathetic approach with its fighters when they get in serious trouble. Neer told Cagewriter that he knew he made an awful mistake but wasn't going to make himself sick about his future with the promotion (3:10 mark):
"I really didn't know. to be honest, if they had cut me, I would've fought somewhere else. I'm a fighter first and foremost."
Neer said he would've been fine if that had been the call:
"That would've been their decision and I would've had to have to lived with it and moved on."
That said, Neer admits without a consistent fight schedule there'd be more room for him to go off the deep end again. When asked why he thought Junie Browning was cut after his drug overdose and hospital rampage, Neer said his situation was different. Browning had screwed up many times and Neer was a first-time offender.
Technically, it was the second drunk driving related incident for Neer, but he is a much more-promotable commodity than Browning. Neer, 26, has the potential to be a Chris Lytle-type fighter who can fill the middle of cards and be a candidate for Fight of the Night each time out. He's got a nice matchup here against Gleison Tibau, a ground specialist, tomorrow at UFC 104. We'll see if Neer learned his lesson against Kurt Pellegrino at UFC 101. Neer lost the fight because he was too willing to fight from his back where Pellegrino cruised to a victory on points.
More...
Yahoo! Sports.
Cagewriter is an MMA blog edited by Steve Cofield.
