“I guess kind of bittersweet, you know — the whole merger and things like that,” Larkin said during a PFL media day. “Unfortunately, it's not my first rodeo in this whole thing. So, you know, I was with Strikeforce when Zuffa bought them, so it was kind of familiar.
“Me and my team feel like I know that I'm the most dangerous when I'm active, you know? But lately I've just been fighting two times a year,” he said. “And when I'm active, I'm the most dangerous.” “I like it… I’ve said it before and you know the era we're in it's pretty watered down It's kind of a p—y era, you know what I mean?” Larkin said. “It's just, now there's no such thing as rankings, right? You know, people can say like, ‘Oh, you know, rankings count.’ But at the end of the day, rankings doesn't count. Now these fighters think that they talk a little s—t, and say some outlandish s—t, and then they get skipped.
Larkin is also well aware of the positives a merger between two MMA promotions can bring, especially if one was struggling.