Jared Cannonier has his sights set on a middleweight title shot following his emphatic KO victory over Derek Brunson at UFC 271 on Saturday, telling MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani that he’s earned the right to fight Israel Adesanya.
“I know I earned it. But if they choose [Sean] Strickland over me, it would say something to me. It could be my ego saying thinking, ‘They scared of you, they don’t want that heat yet’. I guess Izzy gets to pick his fights, and he said my name in the post-fight interview and the press conference,” Cannonier, who called out Dana White in his post-fight interview, said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour (h/t BJPenn.