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Gian Villante Thinks He Waited Too Long to Finish Patrick Cummins

July 24, 2017 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas

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.”