‘Those Guys F—king Suck!’ Green Done Fighting ‘Boring Fighters’

Bobby Green knows what kind of fights he wants going forward.

The man known as “King” has gotten back on track with a back-to-back pair of excellent finishes over the likes of his fellow veteran, Tony Ferguson, and rising contender, Grant Dawson. Green found himself on the receiving end of two tough finishes in 2022 but has delivered diversity in 2023 with an arm-triangle choke of Ferguson (watch highlights) and a 33-second knockout of Dawson (watch highlights).

Next on the docket for Green will be another fan-favorite, New Zealand’s Dan Hooker. Competing at UFC Austin, Green, and Hooker will make history as the first five-round non-title fight UFC Fight Night co-main event. The main event slot is occupied by their fellow Lightweight contenders, Beneil Dariush and Arman Tsarukyan. Should Green come out on top against Hooker, he isn’t too keen on fighting one of those two, in particular.

“I got a lot of people that want my name, a lot of people that want to fight me,” Green told The Schmo. “A lot of people are saying that they want to get down now all of the sudden that I’m hot. Would I want to fight those guys? That Arman guy is f—king boring. I can’t stand watching him fight. Every time I’ve watched him fight, I go to sleep. Then he calls out, ‘50 g’s! Dana [White], give me 50 g’s!’ I’m like, ‘For what?! What did you do? That was terrible.’

“I don’t like to fight the boring guys, those guys f—king suck. That’s just f—king weird, those guys are weird. I respect Beneil, the work Beneil’s put in. I like Beneil, but that Arman guy is just a terrible f—king fighter. I had to already do that with Dawson and Dawson was a sleeper. I don’t want to keep fighting the boring guys, those guys suck.”

Between Dariush and Tsarukyan, Dariush will look to rebound off a tough first round technical knockout loss to Charles Oliveira at UFC 289 that snapped his eight-fight winning streak in June 2023 (watch highlights). Meanwhile, Tsarukyan can extend his current streak to three, establishing himself as a Top 5 contender.