Former UFC interim bantamweight contender Corey Sandhagen shared his opinion about the fight with Petr Yan.
“I fought well in the first round,” Sandhagen said on The MMA Hour. – He fought well in the second, even if the judges gave him the round. If we fought somewhere in Colorado, I would most likely have given these two rounds. In the third, I also fought well until he caught me with a punch and dropped me. After the knockdown, I fought on shaky legs until the end of the fight. I have a very good chin, and in order to shock me, you need to throw out something special. And he threw it away, and that became an important factor. I made a mistake and paid for it. I wasn’t the same after the knockdown. If not for this fall, I would have won the fourth and fifth rounds. I won the third round before the knockdown. And so… Although I did not have a shocked expression, but I accepted the damage, in the fourth round I was just exhausted.
What did he change after the first round? I knew Yang didn’t roll into fights quickly, although this time he rolled in faster than usual. In the second and third rounds, he started to pick up the pace, and in the fourth he just kicked my ass. Is Yang the best boxer in the UFC? I do not know. Boxing fights are calculated differently, there are different styles, everything is different … Ian is a phenomenal kickboxer, he is very good. I don’t want to get into all this discussion about the best boxer or whatever. MMA is a different sport.”
On October 30, Sandhagen lost to Yan via unanimous decision at UFC 267 in Abu Dhabi.
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