Velasquez: I knew I wouldn’t stay undefeated
I especially wanted to go out there and give the fans a great fight, Velasquez said Tuesday following a news…
I especially wanted to go out there and give the fans a great fight, Velasquez said Tuesday following a news conference at the MGM Grand to formally announce UFC 146 on May 26. For it to go the way it did, that definitely sucked.
I’m a realist. I knew I wasn’t going to go through my career undefeated. That’s how this sport is. People lose. Even the best guys lose. I knew as soon as it was over, I had to pick myself back up and keep going forward. I do have some extra motivation now, for sure, but I wish that for that night things had gone differently and that the fans had gotten the fight they came to see.
Ultimately, I let myself down [with the way the fight went], Velasquez said. I don’t ever want that to happen, and not for Fox or anything else. I want to go out there and win. Stuff happens. I get that, but I definitely wasn’t happy with my performance. What it comes down to it, I don’t want to be in that position again.
