Interview with MMA Torch: Who I would like to fight next, Boxing vs. Taking down my opponents and who had the best chin

MMA TORCH= Many people believe that you deserved to get the next available title shot.  Since that fight was given to Edgar, are you looking at holding out and fighting the winner of the Penn-Edgar fight or would you like to have another fight in the meantime?  If you were to take another fight, who would you like to fight?  How do you believe you would match up stylistically with that fighter?

GRAY= Of course I would like to fight for the belt. But I got to wait until they say it’s the right time. Hopefully Florian wins his next fight with Gomi. I would like to fight Florian, he’s got a good name and that’s a fight I’m really interested in.

MMA TORCH= Some commentators and others in the MMA community have suggested that, in an effort to be more exciting, you have moved away from you strengths by boxing opponents instead of taking them down. How do you respond to that?

GRAY= To be honest, that’s just been the game plans for my last 3 fights. Miller and Diaz have a really good ground game and Huerta is very hard to hold down until it gets in the 3rd round. That’s the plans we came up with, so that’s what I do!! I’ve had 4 southpaws in a row, it’s hard to show my stand up game because it’s so different than fighting an orthodox fighter. Southpaws are counter punchers, to beat them you got to counter punch a counter puncher, which makes the fight a little slow at times. But, I believe in my stand up and anywhere it goes.

MMA TORCH= Of your opponents, who has taken your punches the best (i.e. who had the best chin)?  Who hit you the hardest?

GRAY= I think the last 5 guys I’ve fought Edgar, Clementi, Miller, Huerta, and Diaz none of them have been KO’ed in any of their fights. Which is like 120 fights put together. They all have really good chins. I was able to drop Huerta and Diaz, but they recovered really good. Miller also took some really hard shots too. I broke my hand on Edgar, so he’s gotta have a hard head. It’s hard to say, all of them were tough fighters that didn’t quit. Going into all of those fights we really couldn’t pick many weaknesses, we knew more than likely they would be tough 3 round fights.

To read the full interview go to MMA Torch.  Thanks to those guys over there.  They were great to work with.  As always, thanks to all my fans, friends, and family.