{"id":38724,"date":"2026-06-09T16:11:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Steve-Garcia-feels-disrespected-ahead-of-UFC-Freedom-250-201478"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:11:57","slug":"steve-garcia-feels-disrespected-ahead-of-ufc-freedom-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/steve-garcia-feels-disrespected-ahead-of-ufc-freedom-250\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Garcia feels \u2018disrespected\u2019 ahead of UFC Freedom 250"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Steve
\nGarcia<\/a> has a big fight coming up this weekend\u2014and a similarly
\nbig chip on his shoulder.<\/p>\n

\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cMean Machine\u201d (19-5) is set to face two-time former title
\nchallenger Diego Lopes<\/a>
\n(27-8) in the opening bout of
\nUFC White House: Freedom 250<\/a> on Sunday at the White House.
\nHeading into the biggest fight of his career, the 34-year-old New
\nMexico native claimed that he doesn\u2019t receive due credit for the
\nbody of work he has put in. Despite riding one of the longest win
\nstreaks in the entire division at seven straight\u2014six of them by
\nknockout\u2014Garcia lamented his lack of recognition, telling Ariel
\nHelwani:<\/p>\n

\u201cI do still feel disrespected. I do feel like people don’t count me
\nseriously, but I finally get a platform where I can go out there
\nand continue to prove otherwise. I have seven knockouts in the UFC,
\neight wins… I’ve knocked out several guys, and, bro, I don’t even
\nhave a Topps card. Everybody on the White House card pretty much
\nhas a Topps card\u2026 I got a big chip on my shoulder for everybody
\ndoubting me, I’ll tell you that much\u2026 it\u2019s not like people are
\ncalling me out. There\u2019s a reason for that. I bring it in. It\u2019s
\ngonna be one of the hardest fights you ever fight when I\u2019m in there
\nwith you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n

Love the passion from SteveGarcia here. He’s
\ngot a chip on his shoulder and is fully embracing the opportunity
\nin front of him.<\/p>\n

“I do still feel disrespected. I do feel like people don’t count me
\nseriously, but I finally get a platform where I can go out there
\nand continue to\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/Sm7UprLcbQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani)
\nJune 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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UFC Freedom 250 takes place Sunday, June 14, on the south lawn of
\nthe White House in Washington, D.C. The seven-fight card is
\nheadlined by a lightweight title unification bout between Ilia
\nTopuria<\/a> and Justin
\nGaethje<\/a>, while Alex
\nPereira<\/a> and Ciryl Gane<\/a>
\nare scheduled to fight for the interim heavyweight belt in the
\nco-main event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Garcia has a big fight coming up this weekend\u2014and a similarly big chip on his shoulder. Advertisement \u201cMean Machine\u201d (19-5) is set to face two-time former title challenger Diego Lopes (27-8) in the opening bout of UFC White House: Freedom 250 on Sunday at the White House. Heading into the biggest fight of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}