Kevin Lee is ‘Embarrassed’ After UFC on FOX 31 Loss

Kevin Lee spoke with reporters following his loss to Al Iaquinta at Saturday night’s UFC on FOX 31. Highlights are below, per MMAjunkie:

On his reaction to the loss: “Devastated, embarrassed. This sport sometimes has the lowest of lows, and it really don’t feel lower than now, but I’ll be all right. I might not get another shot at Al, but I’ve fought a lot of great fighters in my career, and he’s definitely up there amongst them. We’ll see once everything gets settled down.”

On being affected by doubts from their previous fight: “I think I let the mind games play into me a little bit, but honestly I can’t make no excuses. I had a great camp. It was a great cut. Everything felt on fire tonight. The first three rounds I thought for sure I had them. Then I just took my foot off the gas. Those are just tactical mistakes that a guy like me shouldn’t be making, and I couldn’t be more disappointed in myself for it.”

On his performance: “I know that I could’ve went a lot harder. In that Tony fight I gave everything I had until my body just couldn’t take it no more. In this fight I just entered the fight feeling good, and it’s just an awful feeling.”

On a possible move to welterweight: “It might be time for me to make that change. I knew it about a year ago, but I’m a real stubborn son of a (expletive), so I’m just going to try to make as many adjustments as I can and make it as clean as I can, but it still is very rough for me to get down to this weight. Maybe now it’s time to just go up and look at other options. I think I can compete very, very well at 170 and be fast in and out of the pocket, too. I don’t know. We’ll see as I kind of get healed up and everything.”