Speaking with MMAFighting, Sandhagen said: “I think going into another fight with T.J. he’s going to know that I understand the mistakes that I made and when we fight again, the mistakes won’t be there anymore and he’ll probably get finished.”
Cory Sandhagen hoped to dispatch Dillashaw on his way to a title challenge, against whoever wins the Yan vs Sterling rematch. However, it didn’t go according to plan, something he takes responsibility for.
“He’ll probably get finished” – Sandhagen wants Dillashaw Rematch
“Just because of the two judges in there that thought that I lost, I’m not going to feel like I got beat in a fight because I don’t feel like I got beat in a fight.
But I do think it’s really important for me to acknowledge that if I would have done a couple things different, although they’re very minor, that’s kind of the realm of competition that I’m in where I don’t get to make a lot of really minor mistakes anymore.
If I don’t take responsibility, who’s supposed to? I definitely want to b*tch about it. I have b*tched about it and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with b*tching about something like this, in this instance.
I think it was my fault that I didn’t win still at the end of the day.” Sandhagen was forthright in his hope to challenge Dillashaw once more. “I really hope that I do.
I don’t like the taste in my mouth of feeling, again, like I said, if I would have just fixed a couple things then I definitely get the nod from the judges because I think I already won the actual fight part of the thing.
I think that next time T.J. and I face each other, he’s not going to have anything to lean back on. Going into this one, I know in his head, he was really reliant on taking me down and winning that way and he wasn’t able to do that.
I think I showed that I have really good wrestling and I have really good takedown defense and you’re not going to be able to do that at will when you’re fighting me.
Because that’s one of the area’s that T.J.’s really good at is being able to take people down and I shut down 17 of his shots.”
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