Corey Anderson is preparing for action when he battles fellow light heavyweight Sean O’Connell this Friday Night at UFC Fight Night 102, but after a los♎s to Mauricio Rua by split decision at UFC 198 ear🌳lier this year, the UFC Ultimate Fighter 19 winner considered leaving the sport altogether.
“When they said ‘Shogun,’ (won the fight) I was content with it,” Anderson told . “Then when I watched the video in the room and saw I really dominated, even though I didn’t do that much in the first round. I hit him more, I took him down, I was kicking him, I was blocking. I was like, ‘Man, I should’ve won that.’ Then when I saw (on MMADecisions.com) they did a poll of 25 reporters, and 21 of them thought I won … now it really started to get to me. For a moment, I wanted to walk away from it. If they’re saying the judges are cheating me, and that dictates my career, do I really want to depend on that? Do I want to make money depending on what someone else says? I want to do something where I can control it. If I didn’t get the finish but I did enough to win, and everybody thinks I was cheated, is this serious? Is this something I want to do for the rest of my life? It really hurt me for a while. For a while, I stayed home – for a month and a half, two months. I was at my parents’ house. My parents were like, ‘When are you going back to training?’ I had to get my bearings back.”
Despite the setback to Rua at UFC 198, Anderson had already earned five wins in the UFC, 🥀with some n🏅otable wins coming over Matt Van Buran, Fabio Maldonado and Tom Lawlor.
UFC Fight🧜 Night 102 takes place o𝄹n Friday, December 9 from the Times Union Center in Albany, New York with Derrick Lewis and Shamil Abdurakhimov headlining, the entire card streams live on UFC Fight Pass.
