Gian Villante Thinks He Waited Too Long to Finish Patrick Cummins

Gian Villante spoke (via MMAjunkie) following his loss to Patrick Cummins at UFC on FOX 25. The highlights are below:

On his performance: “I had him hurt. I should have finished it – a couple of times. And when I did have him hurt, I’d land another big shot, and I’d kind of wait for him to come back. I should have just poured it on. Just (an) unfortunate decision. I never want to keep in the judges’ hands. It’s not what I do. It’s not how I fight. I try to finish fights. This time I just wanted to finish with something clean, instead of pouring on. I just waited too long.”

On the break after Cummins got split open by a head-to-head collision: “I was what – severely? Profusely? What’s the word I’m looking for? Give me a big one. Very confused? Extremely. I don’t know what the hell was going on. I know I was hurting him with those hammerfists. He was wobbling, and then he went to get on one knee and I’m like, ‘Alright, good.’ And then we clinched up and I guess we collided heads, but it wasn’t intentional by any means. And I didn’t know you stopped fights for a head collision and then give you five minutes to recover? That was really weird to me. I had never seen that before.”

On the loss: “It was a weird fight, man. I don’t know where I lost. I don’t know what part of any round I lost. If I was hit, it was one shot and then I was fine. Nothing went through clear, clean or anything like that. Weird.”