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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"They had a good fight between him and Ben last year, so they need to come up with the best possible fights to sell tickets. Even though me and Cowboy would be a great fight, and it would sell a lot of tickets, him and Ben had fight of the year... I think Cowboy will beat him. Ben's a tough fighter, but honestly he gets lucky in fights. He fights scared. He's not as well rounded as Cowboy is, and as I am. I think Ben is a very tough fighter. If you make any mistakes with him he'll make you pay... I thought I was putting all the pressure on the fight. Ben was running away a lot. I felt Ben fought scared, he fought not to lose, and I don't think he was really fighting to win. I just gave him an opportunity. I served him my neck up on a silver platter."
-Jamie Varner talks to MMAWeekly.com about the rematch upcoming between Ben Henderson and Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone, as well as his loss to Henderson in January.
Penick's Analysis: Varner didn't understand why people were reacting to him so negatively after his bout with Donald Cerrone, but in interview after interview all he's done is reinforce a negative image of himself. Calling a fighter scared and playing off a defeat as "lucky" on the part of his opponent only makes him come off as a poor loser and a bad sport, when really he needs to accept the fact that he got beat by a better man in January. At the very least he keeps up the fans' interest in seeing him get beat by either Henderson or Cerrone in an eventual rematch.
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