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Ryan Bader and his management team fully understand why Anthony Johnson is gunning for a fight with him, but until the UFC says otherwise, the only matchup they are interested in is a title shot against current light-heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier...............


"We have the utmost respect for Anthony Johnson. We think he's a tremendous talent and he's got good representation. If I was advising Anthony, I'd be telling him to do the exact same thing -- call out Ryan Bader. Why? Because that's your fastest track to getting a title shot and that's what these guys are in this sport for to be champion, and title shots don't grow on trees," Martin said.

Right now, it should be Cormier and Bader, and until we know anything about Jones – and that’s a whole other issue of a guy that you want to try to promote that’s got his own issues to deal with – I mean, why are we talking about anything other than Bader vs. Cormier? It just kind of blows my mind. But it’s their business. It’s what they want to do.

Let’s see what we’re training for. Bader was here this morning, and (Cormier) is who we’re gunning for. I don’t understand the other way. I’m wondering if it doesn’t happen, if the fans will eventually go, why are we watching this sport? It’s not the true sport where you win and advance. Sometimes losing, in Gustafsson’s case, means advancing. I just don’t understand that. It cheapens it, in my opinion. So maybe they’ll right the ship a little bit and realize they need a true sport as opposed to just entertainment. Because we have that in the WWE.

I feel like with today’s youth, to have good role models and people that are humble, it’s an opportunity to promote someone like Ryan Bader, who does great things and who is a good man and a good husband (and) supports our military like crazy – given over $80,000 of his own purse to vets. I don’t understand how you can’t promote something like that. How you can say, that’s special, we’re going to promote this guy, we want this guy as our face – we don’t want somebody who’s going out and pulling the crap they’re pulling behind the scenes; an (engaged) man with kids getting in trouble. But once again, it’s not my business. It’s very successful, and that’s the way they want to run it.

Bader doesn’t like him, and when we get a chance to fight him, we’re going to beat Daniel, and maybe the UFC doesn’t want Bader as the champ.