MIAMI – Dan Ige met the media Saturday after his third-round TKO over Sean Woodson at UFC 314.
The finish on the prelims at Kaseya Center came with controversy. Ige (19-9 MMA, 11-8 UFC) stopped Sean Woodson (13-2-1 MMA, 7-2-1 UFC) with a third-round TKO, but Woodson immediately protested the stoppage, saying he was covering up from Ige’s punches.
Many observers looked at it as a fight in which Ige snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, thinking Woodson won the first two rounds. But when the scorecard was released, Ige actually had won the first two rounds from all three judges, meaning he didn’t need the stoppage to get the win.
“I’ve got to watch the fight back, but in the moment my thoughts were I hurt him,” Ige said at his post-fight news conference. “I hurt him pretty bad. I ripped to his body, he shot for a takedown, which you never see him do, and I probably would’ve just kept hitting him. I don’t get to choose when the ref jumps in. I just keep punching until the ref says stop.”
Ige said the win was key for him to get rolling again after three losses in four fights. Ige never has been finished in his nine losses; all have come by decision.
Check out Ige’s post-fight news conference in the video above.
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