Daniel Weichel Trying To Keep Busy After Recent Losses

In an interview with MMA Junkie, Daniel Weichel said he’s trying to stay busy after his recent featherweight title losses to champion Patricio Freire. Here are highlights:

On wanting to fight more: “To be honest, in the first place, it was one thing that I told my manager, that I wanted to fight more often. I said it doesn’t matter to me, at 145, 155, heavyweight, I don’t know. I want to fight more often than I did last year.”

On losing to Freire twice: “I had Patricio in my head for over a year-and-a-half. It was a tough one, but I’m a fighter, you know. I try to learn my lessons out of fights. Whether it’s a win or it’s a loss, and I keep on going. Because my passion is for this sport of MMA and I love to do it. I love to practice, I love to fight.”

On what he learned: “I know that I took my time a little bit too much, especially in the first round, and I know that if I’d put more pressure right from the beginning, it would have changed the fight. So this will definitely be one thing. Especially in a close fight like that. I know it was two rounds for me, two rounds for him, and it was up to the first round to make a difference. Now I know that it doesn’t matter if it’s the first round or the last round, you have to always make sure that you won this round clearly.”