UFC
middleweight fighter Demian Maia was recently interviewed by Sensei SporTV and talked about his knockout loss against Nate Maquardt at UFC 102 this past August.
He said, according to Tatame:
“Actually I was conscious, I wasn’t knocked out, it was a knock down. A lot of people say that what he have done was nice, because he didn’t hit me on the floor. Maybe was that. But maybe he stopped because, if he misses the punch, I would tangle with him and the fight would still going on.
The defeat had a good side: as I’m a few steps away from the fight for the belt, and as Anderson said that he will retire in three fights, maybe I won’t face him anymore. Rodrigo and Rogério are big friends of mine for a while, but I didn’t train with them to not to cause embarrassment because of their relationship with Anderson. But now I’ve accepted the invitation working the boxing with them, with Dórea, Cigano (Junior dos Santos), and keeping the rhythm of training of Jiu-Jitsu with them too.”
