LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – “The Irish Dragon” may need another struggle in him.
Jim Miller picked up his twenty sixth UFC win final evening at UFC Vegas 84 (Sat., Jan. 13, 2024) when he tapped Gabriel Benitez within the third spherical with a nasty face crank from contained in the UFC Apex in Las Vegas (watch highlights). Miller obtained this fifteenth Efficiency of the Night time bonus together with his submission win.
After his win, Miller did what the world wished when he known as out Paul Felder, who was cageside, for a doable struggle at UFC 300.
Felder gave Miller time to shine, however after the occasion concluded, he went again to talk with the media through the UFC Vegas 84 post-fight press convention (watch right here) in regards to the name out.
“Anyone that is aware of me or talks to me knew that Jim was the title that I used to be like; if I’m going to do it, I need it to be in opposition to a man like Jim, any individual that’s round my age that’s been within the recreation for a very long time,” Felder mentioned. “Lately, I’ve been again on a triathlon kick. And I used to be like, ‘Man, I don’t know if I wish to come again anymore. And after we speak to Jim within the fighter conferences, clearly, the folks round me are sort of egging it on and pushing me, and I used to be like, ‘should you name me out, Jim, it’s one thing that I’d be involved in doing.’ He’s like, ‘Should you get me a job sitting subsequent to you on the desk, we’ll make it a deal.’ And I feel there’ll be calling him for at the least an audition developing quickly. So when he mentioned that, you recognize, it’s, it’s like, fu-k, now he’s setting me up all of the issues that I mentioned.”
Felder additionally mentioned he doesn’t know if the promotion is within the doable struggle.
“It’s additionally as much as the UFC, proper?” Felder mentioned. “So I acquired to see if they’re even involved in that struggle occurring. However to do it on a legendary card like that will be unimaginable. I acquired to speak to my spouse, too. I already messaged her, and I used to be like, ‘Jim known as me out.’ She simply despatched me again the face-on-hand emoji. However after all, all my associates, all of the teammates, all these folks, even Twitter, I had folks sending me what individuals are saying about it. So it’s positively a chance.”
The one factor that’s actually tempting for Felder to return to lively completion is having one other struggle in entrance of a sold-out crowd. His final struggle, which ended up being his retirement struggle, was on the Apex in opposition to Rafael Dos Anjos, and it wasn’t memorable.
“And that’s why it’s so so robust, proper? And so tempting. And, you recognize, [I’m] leaning in the direction of eager to do it as a result of it’s Jim, as he desires to be known as at UFC 300, Jim fu-king Miller,” Felder mentioned. “I imply, he’s superior. He fights superior. Particularly, I get to see that struggle proper in entrance of my eyes, proper the place it’s a leg kick battle. It’s a stand-up battle primarily, clearly end them on the bottom, as Jim can do. However I imply, if it’s going to be a struggle like that, then I feel the followers would eat it up as a result of, you recognize, I’m not taking pictures any takedowns in there, particularly in opposition to Jim.”
Felder vs. Miller looks like the right struggle to make, particularly as a result of they have been speculated to throw down manner again in 2015, which makes the story that significantly better.
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