UFC 112

Day of the fight is very interesting, each person reacts different to it, usually the fighter is the most relaxed…and I was pumped. Demian is relaxed, eating and sleeping, and me chilling with him, and I went down to the lobby to have coffee , went to the pool. But time got close and we were about to go to the arena.

We got there, went to our dresser and chill for another 2 hours to start the warm ups.

Interesting is that Demian doesn’t like to watch the fight on the tv at the dressing , I was pretty curious to watch the fights, but I didn’t mind. My head was there for Demian and I stayed in the vibe with him.

We do a good warm up and he is ready to go.

Walking into the octagon is fun, I was to pumped and wanted to Demian to feel all the energy I was giving to him.

Demian is there here comes Silva…. first off, he didn’t have the tapes on his gloves, the red ones… whats going on, I try to make they put the red tape, but they wouldn’t stop for it, so I didn’t care.

The fight starts and we expect a caution Silva, but coming forward, but that never happened . He such a great striker but he never comes forward and worse , wanted Demian to come at him, but we didn’t buy it. Demian walks forward but with caution, but Silva refuses to throw combos. His jab is his best weapon along with his showboating… and them things get ugly… he curse at Demian, disrespect him to try to make his mind weak but didnt; happen.

If Silva is the greatest, he should have finish Demian… but no, he uses his talent to show off, I understand he was concern about Demian’s ground.. but he is the champ, he knows ground, we expected way more from him. He disrespected the martial arts by cursing at Maia, his corners Cursed at him to…it was an all around big mess. And all of sudden Silva decides not to fight anymore… tired..maybe, surprised for Demian’s courage to bang… maybe… we won’t never know. But we know that Maia has a huge heart and Im very proud to have stand by him at that moment. And for Silva…. no words, such a great talent and champ, but sometimes his attitude doesn’t stand by his greatness. I hope he learned something with this fight.  For me the experience was unbelievable, each time I feel more comfortable with the octagon. Each time I walked between rounds I would give my best to wake up Maia, “put everything behind those punches, attitude bro and give what you got” and he did it….a little late, but I think he won 4th and 5th.   5th for sure… he even thai clinch and kneed Silva… pretty good for a white belt 3 stripes in strike against a black belt bad ass striker… so you do the math. Props for e Demian.

We will train harder now, we know where we can stand and we will work to come back and take it from whoever has that belt.

Thank you for all the fans for the support, that was magic and will be recorded in everybody’s minds for a long time.

Attitude , Respect, Honor and Heart make the champion and Maia showed us that. Im proud of him.

For me… back home to the drawing board,… evolving myself too.

Thank you

OSS

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