John Alessio unsurprisingly cut by the UFC
Mixed martial arts veteran, John Alessio has unsurprisingly been axed from the UFC following his fifth straight defeat inside the octagon spanning more than one spell, and if you ask “The Natural” he wouldn’t exactly say that it was a fair decision to make.
Speaking via MMAJunkie.com, Alessio said:
“I’m super upset. I worked so long and so hard to get back, and the UFC always puts all this pressure on you about being exciting, so I tried to change my style up to be crowd-pleasing. But then I get an opponent in my last fight, where … he just chose to hold me down to win the fight, and it’s just depressing that that gets rewarded when all they talk about is exciting fights.”
“I really thought that I’d be spending more than a couple of months of 2012 in the UFC. I thought I’d get one more shot. I don’t know where I should go or what my options are. I could have tried to make that fight really boring and just jab and move and never get taken down. But that’s what I did against Diego Sanchez (at UFC 60), and the UFC was upset because it wasn’t very exciting, because I tried to implement this game plan.”
“It’s contradicting and hard for the fighters because you want to win the fight, but you don’t want to be criticized for being a boring fighter. I’m always that guy that they can depend on. Put me in there with a striker, though.”
Alessio’s most recent spell didn’t exactly go to plan after he was smothered and outpointed by Shane Roller at UFC 148. Before that, virtually the same happened against Mark Bocek at UFC 145, which was a fight he took on short notice. Stay tuned to MMABay for more on this as we get it.
By Michael Pepper. (Follow me on Twitter)
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