Mike Swick Apologizes for UFC Fight Night 12 Performance
From mma.tv:
First I want to apologize for the lackluster fight last night. I do take my fans very seriously and it obviously hurts to let them down. I am not the most experienced fighter out there yet and last night was a tough lesson I had to learn. There was a lot of pressure coming off a dissapointing loss, cutting for the first time, and hosting a Main Event. I did gain a wealth of knowledge through this experience that will help me in my next outing.
Though everyone here is saying how skinny I looked and this and that, I was 2 pounds lighter than when I fought Okami. The difference is that I bulked up after the Okami fight and then over cut myself the 2 months leading to this fight. Next time I will come in bigger and cut more at weighins.
Burkman is strong and I wanted to prove that I could resist his takedowns and strength. I wanted to stuff his takedowns while gassing him then pick him apart on the feet. By the time the 3rd round came I let it get so close that just one takedown could have seen me going home with a loss and so I was more tentitive than I should have been. I tried to look for the one punch knockout over using my usual combinations and flurries and deeply regret it now.
Though I looked frail as some put it, I felt really strong at 170. My mistakes were mental. Believe it or not this whole experience made me a lot more confident about 170, my strength at 170, and dealing with what I had to go through leading up to this fight. You will see a much more confident me in my next fight and I hope to get back on track and put on the exciting fights I started my career with.
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I belive Swick lost The fight. Burkman pushed the pace as he was the main agresser. Burkman maintained octagon control by pushing swick into the fence for most of the fight. Poor performance by both fighters but Burkman was more active. Both fighters should feel bad for not really inflicting any damage on eachother. Dont let the fans down, they are number one. Try to be more like chuck and silvia. That was exciting!!!
I think the exact opposite. Dont TRY to put a good show for your fans. Try to win the fight. Fighters that try to put a great show on usally get knocked out.
Good for the fighters bad for the fans. The fans are the reason the sport exsits. without the fans there would be no money for the fighters.I agree on trying to win the fight but you must put it all out on the line and go for the Finish.
Don’t worry Mike, you tried your best. Next time apologize for the judges awarding you a fight you didn’t win.
swick moaning about cuting weight well if he ant of been such a **** and stayed at middleweight that wouldn’t of been much of a problem for him. wat ever happend to the mike swick we first layed eyes on winning his first 3 fights in like 2 min or summat daft like that now ur just going to end up on undercards unless u man up and live up to ur name (quick) instead of letin ur opponent push the pace,
i used to be on of ur biggest fans swick but the moaning during rounds against okami then the move down in weight because he was to strong u really need to do big things in the welter weight divison if u want to impress me again u b****
Mike Swick should be a boxer, his in and out quick style on his feet with dick all power is almost as maddening to watch as his refusal to go to war in the trenches.
This guy will quickly be dropped from main events to make room for exciting fighters who are not scared to lay it on the line.