{"id":654686,"date":"2010-02-04T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-217692:1"},"modified":"2010-02-04T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:20:39","slug":"mr-wonderful-davis-has-a-star-quality-but-can-he-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/654686","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mr. Wonderful&#8217; Davis has a star quality, but can he fight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__16\/ept_sports_mma_experts-389022501-1265311125.jpg?w=780\" \/>The prospects keep coming in the UFC from all backgrounds. Phil Davis, the 2008 NCAA wrestling champ at 197 pounds, is on board after just four MMA fights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Davis said there&#8217;s a huge crew of collegiate wrestlers who may be on the way to MMA in the future. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;A lot of college wrestlers have the right attitude. They&#8217;re athletically gifted enough to excel in MMA. There&#8217;s not necessarily as lucrative career in wrestling.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The UFC is throwing Davis deep waters against veteran Brian Stann. Davis says he&#8217;s ready to go and he can deliver a win, he&#8217;ll be a great ambassador for the sport in the future. He&#8217;s all over Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilMrWonderful\" >@philmrwonderful<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In a &quot;harcore&quot; interview with Cagewriter, Davis elaborates on seven dollar loaves of breads, his weight cutting recipe, large women in stretchy pants at Walmart (<em>pictured<\/em>), Little Debbie snacks, buying baby oil midnight, Valentine&#8217;s Day and his arachnaphobia. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospects keep coming in the UFC from all backgrounds. Phil Davis, the 2008 NCAA wrestling champ at 197 pounds, is on board after just four MMA fights.&nbsp; Davis said there&#8217;s a huge crew of collegiate wrestlers who may be on the way to MMA in the future. &quot;A lot of college wrestlers have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Kjs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}