LOS ANGELES – Corey Anderson has been campaigning for a title shot, but instead he drew a rising star. Anderson takes on Johnny Walker next month at UFC 244, and he isn’t even sure a win would be enough for a title shot. Nothing surprises Anderson (12-4 MMA, 9-4 UFC) anymore, who’s on a three-fight winning streak with victories over Patrick Cummins, Glover Teixeira and most recently Ilir Latifi at UFC 232. “I feel it should be enough, but at the same time I wouldn’t put it past them if it wouldn’t,” Anderson said Tuesday during Dominance MMA media day. “They said the same thing about Glover (Teixeira), him being at No. 3, everybody in the media said you should definitely be top five, you’ll be next in the running, and I said right there, ‘Don’t count the chickens; I doubt it.’ And sure enough rankings came out, and I was ranked like eighth or ninth, and I keep going down so, you never know.
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Corey Anderson understands hype around Johnny Walker, but ‘it’s a little too much’ – MMA Junkie