UFC 143 winner Matt Brown has no plans to call out his next opponent

These days, the UFC encourages fighters to air their matchmaking wishes in a public forum. Provided it's not too wacky a request, callouts can help gauge interest in future bouts.

But that's one offer Matt Brown is going to turn down.  

"I sort of called out one person in my entire career, and that was Renzo (Gracie)," he told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "I wished I never did it; I pretty much got barred from their team."

Brown (13-11 MMA, 6-5 UFC) had the floor after knocking out Chris Cope (5-3 MMA, 1-2 ) on the preliminary card of this past weekend's UFC 143 event at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Events Center, but he kept quiet and instead chose to talk about becoming a better fighter. That didn't draw headlines, of course.

"When I get the media attention, I don't like it, and when I don't, I get mad," Brown said. "What it comes down to is if you win, you get the attention. If you don't, you don't get it."

Brown, of course, isn't hurting for places to train. He works in gyms around his home in Columbus, Ohio, after stints in Las Vegas and Seattle. But after he  said he wanted a fight with Gracie (simply because he's such an MMA legend), Gracie's academy in New York City now is apparently off-limits.

"I'm never doing it again," he said of callouts.

Something Brown will vent about is the event's bonus situation. While he agrees that the "Knockout of the Night" winner, Stephen Thompson, impressed with a win via head kick over Dan Stittgen, he argues that he faced tougher competition that night.

"The guy he was fighting

View the Original article