“I’ve heard that, that (Rousimar Palhares) holds on to stuff too long, but I don’t really care about that. When I go to fight, I fully expect guys to do whatever they can to win, and if that means them trying to cheat or whatever, you have to be ready for that. You have to protect yourself at all times and that means even from things that are illegal. I’m going to come prepared and I’m going to do my best to stay out of any kind of submission hold so that issue won’t even come up.”
“I guess I’m still not over the (loss to Chael Sonnen) heartbreak or whatever. It still bothers me, but I’m definitely looking forward to my next fight and I feel I’ve learned my lessons from that fight. I expect to go into this fight and execute my game plan, and I think that’s one of the biggest mistakes that I made against Chael.”
“If you fight a wrestler the wrong way, it’s very easy to get taken down, and I think that’s what happened. My takedown defense is much better than I showed, and I will be able to prove that in my next fight here.”
— Check out Nate Marquardt’s full interview on ‘The MMA Hour’ at mmafighting.com.
Nate “The Great” Marquardt (29-9-2) -240
Loss Chael Sonnen – Decision (Unanimous) UFC 109 5:00 R3
Win Demian Maia – KO (Punch) UFC 102 0:21 R1
Win Wilson Gouveia – TKO (Knee and Punches) UFC 95 3:10 R3
Rousimar “Toquinho” Palhares (11-2) +190
Win Tomasz Drwal – Submission (Heel Hook) UFC 111 0:45 R1
Win Lucio Linhares – Submission (Heel Hook) UFC 107 3:21 R2
Win Jeremy Horn – Decision (Unanimous) UFC 93 5:00 R3