{"id":217466,"date":"2010-01-13T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-213277:1"},"modified":"2010-01-13T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T05:00:09","slug":"white-maynard-didnt-sell-me-hes-not-ready-for-that-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217466","title":{"rendered":"White: Maynard didn’t sell me … he’s not ready for that title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It turned out Gray Maynard was trying out last night during his Ultimate Fight Night 20 win over Nate Diaz. Maynard won a close decision but the fight was sloppy at times and "The Bully’s" took a beating. He needed to wow the powers that be to earn a title shot against UFC lightweight champ B.J. Penn.  <\/p>\n

During his New York media blitz to announce Flash Entertainment\/Abu Dhabi’s 10 percent purchase of the UFC, UFC president Dana White explained why he tabbed Frank Edgar as Penn’s next challenger.<\/p>\n

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"We gotta put people in there who have a better shot at beating B.J. Penn. And Gray Maynard didn’t sell me on that last night," said White.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Maynard used his size and wrestling to dominate Edgar back at UFN 13, but clearly the little guy has moved back ahead of the unbeaten Maynard in the pecking order. <\/p>\n

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"Frankie Edgar has looked great in his last few fights and he’s been dominating good opponents."   <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Edgar will meet Penn at UFC 112 Apr. 10 in Abu Dhabi. Maynard and his coaches Randy Couture and Gil Martinez didn’t exactly scream and yell for a title shot last night during the UFN 20 postfight press conference. They even suggested Maynard might need more seasoning (VIDEO<\/a>). <\/p>\n

White and UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta also expanded on the news of the transaction with Abu Dhabi.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It turned out Gray Maynard was trying out last night during his Ultimate Fight Night 20 win over Nate Diaz. Maynard won a close decision but the fight was sloppy at times and "The Bully’s" took a beating. He needed to wow the powers that be to earn a title shot against UFC lightweight champ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}