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"(My jiu-jitsu) wasn't a problem. I did everything right. I knew exactly how to shake him off my back, I just happened to... when he jumped on my back, I was actually going to go down so I can pull his arm away from my throat but when he reset and shook me, he collapsed my hip and I fell down. At that point, I had to try to roll over to the other side. I was sticking to the basics of what I learned. A lot of people criticize my ground game and I'm not going to sit here and think that I have the best ground game because obviously I don't, I've lost (a lot of) fights on submissions, but to lose to a guy like Jim, I wasn't emotional about this loss like I was in the (Joe) Lauzon fight because I really feel in my heart the Lauzon fight was a fluke. I had Jim hurt and my thing was, I wanted to be patient and I backed off when I could have probably swung. It could have been a different result. But I don't regret anything I did tonight. ... Now I have to go home, back to Florida, and grind it out with the Blackzillions, man. I have 'JZ' Cavalcante, I have Jorge Santiago, I have a lot of great jiu-jitsu partners now that I didn't have before. Give me about a year, man. Just be patient with me, I'll submit someone."
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