Source: www.fightline.com --- Saturday, April 29, 2017
Ryan Bader was a guest on a recent edition of Submission Radio out of Australia. Bader will make his Bellator debut later this summer against Phil Davis for the light heavyweight title at Bellator 180. Check out highlights from the interview below as Bader discusses Anthony Johnson, Davis, their first fight and more: If Ryan was surprised when Anthony Johnson retired from MMA “Yeah, no, I kind of herd rumblings – no pun intended there – that he was gonna retire. I just heard it from other people so I wasn’t too surprised when he was actually retiring. You know, I heard he had a job with the Rams or something like that. So you know, it is what it is. It’s more power to him. He has dominated a lot of guys, he lost that title fight, but I feel that his mind wasn’t really in that one. If you’re already thinking about retiring going into a fight, you’re kind of done regardless. So yeah. More people should do that, more people should say, ‘hey, this is my time, I want to get out before it’s too late, before I get knocked out ten times in my career and what not’. So yeah, I think he had a lot of potential and a lot of great fights left in him, but more power to him for him to say, ‘hey I’m done’.” If he’s glad that Anthony Johnson didn’t retire during his contract negotiations because then the UFC may have kept him around due to the think roster at light heavyweight “Exactly. I have a great contract with Bellator and everything. It was ...
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