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Jorge Masvidal: Demian Maia loss ‘burns like a f*cking STD’!

Jorge Masvidal: Demian Maia loss ‘burns like a f*cking STD’!

 

 

Jorge Gambred Masvidal is not entirely over his decision loss to Demian Maia, after all he managed to strike at Maia more than any of his other 5 opponents put together!

Still he’s quite burned by the loss. He spoke on the MMA Hour:

“A loss is a loss, but that loss is a weird one, because it hurts me,” Masvidal said Monday on The MMA Hour. “It bothers me. None of these other split losses — obviously they bother me because of paychecks, [but] I’m the type of guy that if I get held down for 10 seconds in practice, I f*cking go crazy. Later on, I’m thinking about it still. I still have to deal with that, that this guy was able to do it for a lot longer than 10 seconds in a fight. I’ve got to fix those holes and stuff.

“So it bothers me on personal level. I know on the business side, a lot of people have told me the same thing you told me (that it doesn’t hurt my stock), but to me, on a personal level, this is the loss that’s bothered me the most, in possibly my whole career.”

As for Maia, Masvidal recognizes his qualities:

“The strength level surprised me,” Masvidal said. “He’s strong, definitely the strongest guy I’ve been in the cage with, and his half guard is really a class like I’ve never seen. I’ve rolled with multiple Mundial champions and ADCC champions, and his half guard is unique. Like, when you’re in his half guard, you feel threatened the whole time like you don’t ever feel threatened with many people in grappling. And that’s not just MMA; I’m talking about straight grapplers, good guys on the ground who come from that same background that I roll with on the regular.

“This is unique. Very, very tailored to MMA, being active, aggressively sweeping. So it was a treat. I actually learned a couple things from it that I could use myself.””

Masvidal concluded:

“Me and Maia are going to have to do it again. No matter how you see the fight, the fight was a close one. We both had each other in trouble at some times and we’ve got to do it again. It was just small mistakes made on my part. I tweak this, I tweak that in the fight; instead of being a split, it could be unanimous. So I’m eager to improve on those mistakes and get back in there.”