“He actually hurt me twice with two body punches in the third round.”

“I thought I was going to be able to finish it in the first round, but he’s been working hard.”

“The one thing I think I showed tonight, between Melvin [Guilliard], Anthony Johnson and Sam Stout, I can stand with the best of them.”
Cain Velasquez

“I just tried to stay in a good position and just ground-and-pound him.”

“To end it in the first round feels pretty good.”
Jonathan Goulet

“I got dizzy you know and he rocked me, everybody saw [it]. I didn’t go out, but I fell on the ground a little. He did a good job to try and finish me but he got too excited.”

“My experience [allowed] me to be careful, I tried to defend myself always [moving] because the referee yelling ‘only 10 seconds’. I was trying to move to let him think that I wasn’t out.”
Damien Maia

“He was tired too so once you save your energy, make one shot at the right time.”

“When he went down he was out by the triangle, then I punched a little bit but he was out.”
Jason Day

“I knew he was going to go for the take down. He said ‘everything that I needed to know was in the Louiseau fight’, as soon as he got high I was like ‘okay take me down and let me see what you got’.”

“I kind of see his knees wobble when he kind of stood back, that’s when I knew ‘let’s go for it’. The ref start yelling ‘protect yourself’, that’s when I hit him in the liver and kind of bent him over and he didn’t do anything so I just laid it on.”
Jason MacDonald

“I wasn’t able to finish and he popped out of that guillotine and my poor arm was just tired for going for that guillotine.”

“He was able to snatch it up and go for that kimura and he was close. It was close but my Jiu-Jitsu pulled through.”

“I probably hit him with like 4 or 5 hard elbows and he went limp, his head fell down, I thought he was out. He was out and I thought Steve [Mazzagatti] stopped it and I let up and Steve was still standing there, so I gave him a couple more for good measure.”

“I’m trying to put together some quality wins to try and get back to that #1 contender spot.”
Mac Danzig

“I knew it was going to be like that. People counted him out, they said he [Mark Bocek] had ‘no chance’, and I knew how tough this guy was. I mean he trains full-time just like all of us. He’s been black belt Jiu-Jistu for longer then I’ve been fighting pro.”
Nate Quarry