UFN 19 Post Fight: Nate Quarry, Carlos Condit, Gray Maynard and Nate Diaz Talk About Their Victories

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UFC Fight Night 19 ended and it was a great night of fights, as all the televised bouts each brought their own blend of fireworks to the table. Main card fighters, Nate Quarry, Carlos Condit, Gray Maynard and Nate Diaz all earned themselves hard fought victories that had entertaining back and forth action.

Nate Quarry talked about his 15-minute war with Tim Credeur that earned both of them the Fight of the Night bonuses:

I knew he was going to take this as a huge opportunity to move forward and use me as a stepping stone. I took this fight just as seriously as everything. I knew it was going to be a war.

I was really trying to build up the suspense in the fight. After the first round, I was like, 'Alright, now I've worn him down. Now his knuckles are sore and tired. I should probably start hitting him, too... I kind of expected him to use his reach and move back. He cracked me a few good times. Fortunately I was able to counterpunch a few good times and land some shots.

Carlos Condit won in a tightly contested match against Jake Ellenberger. The 'Natural Born Killer' talked about taking those big shots that almost ended the fight in the first:

I was pretty rocked. I was probably in a heap of trouble, but I kind of just pulled through. I was there mentally, but for a second my vision in my left eye was a little bit fuzzy. He hit me with a good shot. I think I threw a kick, and he caught me with a right hand. He's a pretty powerful dude, pretty explosive. I just kind of persevered, and that's been something that's helped me through a lot of fights in my career is just being tough and being able to weather storms. I was in trouble in the first round, but I didn't want to lose this fight. Unless I was knocked out or finished, I wasn't going to quit.

I'm glad that I won, but I was disappointed that it was so close. But a win is a win. I obviously have some things to work on, and I will definitely be working diligently at the gym... I was pretty sure that I got the decision, but had it gone the same way the Kampmann one did, I would have been pretty disappointed. Again, I had a fight that I didn't finish and that went to a judges decision. Hopefully I can fix some things in my game and finish my next opponent so we won't have to worry about it.

Gray Maynard almost ended the fight with a third round kimura attempt, but a very tough Roger Huerta refused to tap and grinded it out to a decision. Gray talked about his victory:

Every time I hit him, his arms starting going like this [waves his arms around wildly]. Every time I hit him, he’d do two or three of those, I was like, ‘Whoa.’ He was trying to turn it into a crazy war. He’s tough... I know he could squirm and scramble, that’s why I had to play the game of ‘stop him and scramble.

I had [the kimura] in deep. I heard his arm popping. I said to the referee ‘Holy [expletive], do you hear that?’ I thought it was going to break. I’m glad it didn’t break and that’s a good ref [Herb Dean] in there, he made the right call [letting the match continue]."

In the night's main event, Nate Diaz beat Melvin Guillard, in a fight that saw him recover from a first round knock down, and went on to secure a submission finish. Diaz talked about the fight:

My boxing coach was telling me to feel him out, take a step back and throw – make him come to you. But I kind of rushed in there and got knocked down. I was like, 'Ah, figures.' I leapt in there like I shouldn't have done. But I recovered right away... I was alright though, after I sat down a little bit. I just thought, 'Don't jump in there anymore.'

I hit him with a right-left good, and his head popped back, and he started acting like he was [hurt]... I knew that's what he was going to do, so I hit him, and I came forward like I was going to run in after him. Then he threw the big one, and I stepped back like me and my boxing coach had worked on. I ran in because he was playing dumb, then he threw the big one like I was expecting. He moved and went from the big shot to a takedown, which I was fine with. I was like, 'Now he's getting desperate.'

Shortly after that takedown attempt, Diaz sunk in the choke, and took the victory. When asked what he wants next, Diaz replied:

I want to fight somebody in the top-five, or even top-three. I don't want anybody less. I don't want to go down. I want to go up.

HT: mmajunkie, Yahoo