That isn’t something you generally hear coming out of the mouth of professional mixed martial artist, but if your familiar with heavyweight Jeff ‘The Snowman’ Monson’s (42-11) personality then it isn’t anything that should surprise you.
For those of you who don’t know Monson, he’s an Anarchist. No not the let chaos rule and every man for himself sort of thing. He just believes in a society capable of ruling themselves, with equality for all with no Government intervention.
The 40-year old Monson is set to return to the Zuffa umbrella this Saturday in Dallas, Texas when he meets wrestler Daniel Cormier on the main card of Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum. ‘The Snowman’ last worked for Zuffa back in 2006 when he lost a UFC heavyweight title fight by unanimous decision to Tim Sylvia at UFC 65.
Speaking to Ben Fowlkes of MMAFighting.com, Monson offered some of his personal views concerning his beliefs as well as his hopes of making one last title run at his age. If ‘The Snowman’ proves successful against Cormier he says he’ll drop down to 205 lbs and take a shot at either the UFC or Strikeforce light heavyweight titles before retiring.
“I’m like everybody else. I live in a capitalist system, so that’s what I have to do. … I may not like it or agree it, but that’s our society. I’m trying to change it, but I’m not a hypocrite either. I know that I have to earn money to pay bills. I just happen to have a job that I enjoy, and I do feel blessed. If I could make any job for myself, this would be one of them.
“At the same time, these people paying me to fight, they’re making a hell of a lot more off the fighters than they’re paying them. They’re doing it to make a profit. In essence, they’re stealing from me. It’s like someone working in a shoe factory making shoes, that person doesn’t get paid what those shoes are worth. They get paid a fraction of it. They get paid the minimum they can get paid and stay living and employed and keep them from quitting. They’re wage slaves, just like I’m a wage slave.”