Saunders: Sometimes you win sometimes you lose, but …
Ben Saunders: “I have no real control over my future, only thing I can promise is that I will come and fight to try and finish my opponents within the allocated time allowed.”
Ben Saunders lost to Patrick Cote at UFC Fight Night 81 on Sunday. Afterwards he wrote the best recap in memory of what it is like to lose.
Via MMA Mania.
Ben Saunders: Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose… But no one can ever say I never tried.
I have said it since day one of becoming a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter: My mentality going into every fight is that win, lose, or draw, I am going to bring a fight, and never lay over for anyone. I have no real control over my future, only thing I can promise is that I will come and fight to try and finish my opponents within the allocated time allowed.
Huge props to Patrick Cote on getting the win [in Boston]. It was an honor to fight him, and share the cage with him. I said I was a fan before the fight, and I still am. Wish him and his career resurgence continued success.
It always sucks to lose, I will definitely learn from this loss as I have from every one of my losses. All have been an eye opening experience to not dwell on and pity myself about. But kick myself in the ass and realize I can improve on these mistakes and or weaknesses and become a much more dangerous mixed martial artist from such a learning experience.
No one is perfect anywhere, let alone everywhere. Taking this into account, I do believe I still have one of the most unorthodox and a bit of a rare skill-set that could give anyone fits on any given day. Combined with the mindset to keep improving and always doing my best to evolve, there is never a time where I feel complete.
I am on a lifelong journey of becoming a better martial artist. This is to the death for me, it is my life. Whether fighting, coaching, instructing, helping, analyzing, promoting, you name it. I gave my whole life to this game, and I will be a part of it until I am dead and gone. Hoping that in the end my legacy of every accomplishment I make inside and outside the cage is worthy of pride for me and my family.
