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Last night, Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera won a unanimous decision over Randy Couture in what may be considered to be one of the best fights of the year. During the post-fight press conference, Minotauro talked about his victory, and the arm-triangle that almost finished the fight in the second round:

I tried my best, but Randy has good technique in (his) escape. I felt like I had Vaseline on my glove from the (earlier) punch, and he did a very good escape. He walked back to get off.

For sure, that fight was one of the most important fight(s) of my life. It wasn’t a title shot, but it was a fight against one of my heroes, a legend in the sport.

Randy Couture also spoke about the loss, crediting Noguiera's boxing as the difference maker in the fight:

I’m pretty rational about the performance. I clearly thought he’d won all three rounds. He knocked me on my keester in at least two of the rounds and had mount a couple of times. He definitely won the fight.

He’s got a great jab. He followed it with some pretty good right hands tonight. Obviously, I thought I could do better on my feet than I did with him and he hit me with some good shots... I think I did a lot of things well and I got caught a few times and I think that’s a nod to Nogueira. He had a great night.

HT: Sherdog