Bryan Caraway Isn’t Interested in a Fight with Cody Garbrandt

Bryan Caraway spoke on Thursday (via MMAjunkie) for a new interview. Some highlights are below:

On a potential fight with Cody Garbrandt: “I completely understand why he wants to fight me. He’s got that championship belt on his mind, as anyone in our division should have. He wants to fight up the rankings to get himself closer to that. At the same time, I want to fight up, too.”

On wanting to fight a higher-ranked person: “I want to fight the guys right ahead of me. I want to fight the winner of Faber and Cruz. I feel like I’ve already earned my spot to fight for the world title by beating the No. 4 guy and the No. 6 guy. My last two wins I’ve beat higher-ranked opponents than Garbrandt has. I think a great matchup for him would be (John) Dodson. That’s a phenomenal matchup, and they’re right next to each other in the rankings. It just makes sense.”

On Garbrandt saying he’d knocked Caraway out: “I don’t think anyone can knock me out in our division, and I’m not scared to fight anybody. Obviously, the guy doesn’t know my history. You don’t fight no-holds-barred, vale tudo fights with no gloves back in the day when there were hardly any rules, if you’re afraid to fight anybody. That’s just ridiculous. You don’t get to be where I am, to have the resume I have, if you’re afraid to fight somebody. You just don’t.”