UFC lightweight veteran King Green gets an up-and-comer at UFC 313 in the form of Mauricio Ruffy, but he’s not taking it as the promotion thinking he’s on the way out.
He’s just doing his job.
“I’m just a contract killer, bro,” Green told reporters including Cageside Press on Wednesday.
“I’ll be at my house, and they’ll call me and say hey we got a contract for you. Go out there and fulfill your obligations. Do what you need to do. That’s all I’m doing, simply.”
Green (32-16-1) has been fighting in the UFC for over a decade now having fought the who’s who at 155 pounds. Longevity is a tough task in MMA, and one Green had to address recently on a podcast.
“To keep doing this and chugging along…that’s why my hats off to Tony Ferguson, Nate Diaz, Jim Miller, those guys that are really f*cking true fighters till the end. We fought the young, the new, the next version, the next generation, and the next generation,” he said.
“Some people they look at us like ‘well you’re not champion so I don’t even know I could even talk to you.’ It’s like damn you just overshadowed so much. You have no idea what it is to be those guys, you know?”
Green comes off a tough loss to Paddy Pimblett at UFC 304. The first round submission loss Green described as a ‘blooper’.
“I had the worst fight of my life with Paddy. You ever heard of a blooper?,” he said.
“The guy slips on a banana peel and then he falls into a bucket and you know some stupid sh*t like that. Feel like I lost a Super Bowl and it is what it is.”
Watch the entire media day scrum with King Green above. He takes on Mauricio Ruffy at UFC 313 on Saturday night.
