Leonard Garcia talks about the positives of fighting your heart out inside the octagon as opposed to scoring points

UFC featherweight slugger, Leonard Garcia has been speaking about the reason why he feels he’s value for money in the eyes of the judges on the eve of his return to the octagon where he battles “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung for the second time, explaining he understands why he’s edging these razor close decisions.
Speaking via MMAJunkie.com, Garcia said:

“For every bad comment that I read – I’ve never heard one – but for every bad comment that I read, I hear 10 or 20 great ones. The UFC Fan Expos, everywhere where I’m greeted by great people, I feel like the guy sitting behind the computer talking mess doesn’t mean that much to me. It’s the people who go to the shows and watch the fights religiously. Those are the people that I care about, and those are the ones I’m putting on a show for.”

“It’s like Diego Sanchez and Martin Kampmann. You watch a fight like that, and Kampmann definitely landed the cleaner shots. Diego brought the fight, though. Had Diego not been there, that would have been a fight where Kampmann wins on points. Diego went out there and got crazy and ended up swaying the judges into (giving him) two rounds. I agree with that.”

“I think if a guy is in there trying to press the fight, that’s what people want to see. That’s what people turn their TVs on for, and that’s what they pay their ticket for. I could play it safe, take somebody down, hold them down for the whole round. I don’t want to pay to see that. I want to see two guys get out there and get after it. I want to see guys look like Rocky Balboa after a fight. I like to be that guy. I think judges are right. If you’re pushing the fight, and you’re being aggressive, you should win the fight. It shouldn’t be the guy sitting back.”

Garcia’s up and down career continued last time out, pulling off a controversial split decision win over Nam Phan on the season twelve finale of “The Ultimate Fighter” in December. Prior to that he’d lost out to current number one contender, Mark Hominick in a fight that also went the distance.