Evans: "Too much BS is about the title."

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Former Light Heavyweight champion Rashad Evans has only lost one fight that wasn’t a title fight in the UFC, and just a few months ago was being talked about as the next challenger for Anderson Silva before Chris Weidman. However, ‘Suga’ Rashad is not interested in obsessing over how to get another shot at UFC gold.

“This is the question I hate the most.” Rashad told the GrappleTalk podcast, “It’s one of those questions that paints you in…I just want to go out there and be competing and putting on some great fights. Everything’s all about the title chase…yes I am competing to be number one, but too much b*llshit is about the f*cking title…It doesn’t matter where you rank me. You put me in a cage someplace and I’m going to beat that ass.”

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Totally 100% agree. The title is what is making me less interested in the sport.

It definitely matters who has the title, but it also relegates someone like Diaz to the who cares column for the casual viewer. It means that Gus won't fight DC because we can't have contenders losing to each other because that "hurts" business.

Wouldn't it be a better world where there are those who will fight for titles and those who won't? Like Bisping. Should be be in the title chasing stream or in the entertaining/competitive fights stream? I'd rather see him in the latter.