Las Vegas, NV – UFC lightweight Bobby ‘King’ Green is not one to ever be short of words or something to make himself interesting and he continued to do just that when he walked into media day with 60k in cash at UFC Vegas 71.
“It’s part of my outfit for one. Two, it’s not really much you know it’s only 60 thousand, not much. They say cash is trash so it’s not really anything,” Green told reporters on Wednesday.
“But for me it’s a motivation. It lets me know exactly what I’m looking for. It lets me know that this is aiming for every time I go to fight.”
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Even if, as Green said, ‘cash is trash’ the lightweight continues to try and get bonuses and stack up cash. The way he put it he feels like he’s on a different mission than his competition.
“It’s really motivation to let me know and fighters know that this is what I do it for. You guys be trying to just get the W. I’m trying to get more than that. I’m trying to show impact. I’m impacting. You guys are doing just to get by,” he said.
“My sh*t’s going to be timeless. They’re going to say I got the fight of the night, I got the fight of the month, I’m going to keep it going.”
It wasn’t just flashing cash that Green was going for on Wednesday, but revealing that he is indeed changing his legal name to ‘King’ following the event. It’s just another storyline in the life of one of the more interesting fighters on the UFC roster.
“People thought I was going to retire. I’m not retiring. I’m retiring ‘Bobby Green’. I was going to do this a couple years ago, but I was fighting child cases,” Green said explaining that he was dealing with child support cases.
“I was just trying to do something different. Rebrand myself, let everybody know that, what I’m doing here is like ‘why not?'”
Watch the entire media day scrum with Bobby Green above. He takes on Jared Gordon at UFC Vegas 71 on Saturday night.
