Following his defeat last weekend at the hands of Ryan Bader, UFC light-heavyweight Antônio Rogério “Lil Nog” Nogueira (19-4) spoke to Tatame.com about the loss. For Nogueira it ended a seven fight win streak for the Brazilian.
“I thought he was better on the beginning, there’re lots of things I should work on… I took much time to warm up the fight, I only got in on the middle of the second round and on the beginning of the third… He was good at the beginning, tried to be objective, punched me like four times, fit some elbows, but then he just tried to hold me all fight long…
“The way I see, I won the second and third rounds, and he won the first. When it comes to scoring, who did more damage on the opponent, I think it was me…
“Actually, UFC is different than Pride. They worship a lot the takedowns, but the guys don’t do much on the floor and don’t even try to submit of knock us out. What happened was that he kept trying to take me down and I wanted to keep the fight standing up, to get the knockout…if the guy falls on top of you and decide not to punch you, there’s no way you can submit him.”
Read the entire interview at Tatame.com by clicking the link.