Weaver on DQ win: ‘I lost tonight, I just got paid good’

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Brok Weaver refuses to accept his disqualification win against Kazula Vargas.

Dana White Contender Series alum Brok Weaver was looking to make a strong statement in his first official UFC fight against Kazula Vargas at UFC Rio Rancho. Instead, it ended anti-climactically via disqualification in his favor.

Despite being clearly grounded, Kazula threw a knee to Weaver’s head. The referee immediately stepped in to call the fight, which neither fighter was delighted about.

While he does have a victory on record, Weaver refuses to accept it as a win.

“A win like that, it ain’t no win in my book,” Weaver said in a post-fight interview. “In my book, he TKOd me. So, I lost tonight. I just got paid good.”

Weaver also isn’t blaming Vargas for the illegal strike, which he believes was done in the heat of the moment.

“I hold nothing against Vargas,” he said. “The knee… he’s in the moment. I’ve been in the moment. I’ve kneed people down. It happens sometimes with the adrenaline, it’s a big fight.

“He was trying to catch me on the way up,” he added. “It happens, man. I don’t blame him. We could run it back if the UFC would allow it.”

Two fights later in the co-main event, Diego Sanchez was also awarded with a DQ win via an illegal knee strike from opponent Michel Pereira. That makes UFC Rio Rancho the first event in history to have two fights end by disqualification.