Jorge Santiago reflects on his loss to Brian Stann at UFC 130, and tells Tatame he may have overlooked the American:
"I guess what went wrong is that I was too confident. I didn’t feel the pressure by the fans, of having everybody staring at me. I was to at ease, I thought it’d be easy and I lost focus. I didn’t do what I could’ve done. The guys that train with me and are part of my team, like Gesias (Cavalcante), said I didn’t do half what I could. It was his big day. Next time I won’t let it happen", said the Brazilian, adding the fact he knew what he had to do so don’t lose it.
"They (UFC promoters) haven’t say anything (about the next bout), but they liked the bout, and you can tell it because they considered it the best of the evening. There were many good things about it, it was a busy bout, which is something that the fans enjoy".
"He’s a pro, a good man, who’s been improving a lot and so, he’s taking larger steps now. I guess that for what he knows about me, he’s aware I wasn’t at my best. He said back there (on UFC’s backstage). He hoped more from me."
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by Scott C. Broussard on Jun 2, 2011 10:40 AM EDT reply actions 5 recs
sadly, i see the writing on the wall for Jorge. he can scrape out some wins in the UFC, but he just won’t ever make it to that next level.
How about a fight with Bisping? As far as I know, Bisping doesn’t have a history of knocking people out on the feet.
“I was protected in Japan and got a massive ratings boost from becoming champion, I fought a mid level MW and lost. Bring on the excuses!” -Santiago
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Replace “Japan” with “Strikeforce”, and “mid level MW” with “best WW”, and you’ve got the story of Diaz for the title at UFC 137.
by Shnak on Jun 2, 2011 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Honestly man
UFC is just the shit, it’s the place to be for elite cage fighters. Jorge lost to:
Manny – mid-tier UFC fw, got ko’d
Diego – mid-tier UFC fw, by decision
Chris Leben – mid-tier UFC mw, got ko’d
Alan Belcher – mid-tier UFC mw, got ko’d
Brian Stann – mid-tier UFC mw, got ko’d
I agree with Smash above, that’s pretty much what happened. He’s 1-3 in the UFC, all losses by ko.
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by SentientAndroid on Jun 2, 2011 11:31 AM EDT reply actions
Misaki
ain’t no chump
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by Chris Barton on Jun 2, 2011 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Or is he?
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I don’t think any fighter is a chump especially Misaki. Perhaps just a bit overated as was Jorge’s rankings for beating him.
I think people look at the fight they put on and think they have to be two of the best in the world because of it, instead of just being two guys at a similar level who put on one of the best matches ever. It doesn’t have to go hand and hand, people just can’t imagine them not doing that.
by Empty Thoughts on Jun 2, 2011 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Um.
“He said back there (on UFC’s backstage). He hoped more from me.”
I’m not sure that meant what Santiago thinks it meant.
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by McKinley B. Noble on Jun 2, 2011 1:28 PM EDT reply actions
Has Jorge considered a drop to welterweight?
He doesn’t seem like a particularly large MW.
Agreed he should def be thinking WW now.
by p123 on Jun 2, 2011 3:22 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
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