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UFC 118 Post Fight Press Conference

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UFC 118 was an excellent night of fights. And that always makes for an interesting post fight press conference. For the full post fight video, check out MMAFighting.com. Still, here are some quotes and information from it below.

Dana White Quotes

"It exceeded my expectations (having the event in Boston)...The media here has been phenomenal...thank you from the bottom of my heart to the city of Boston."

"Frankie (Edgar) looked like an absolute mixed martial artist tonight."

"We're not trying to attack boxing. I love boxing."

"Yeah, that was long...yeah, that sucks, I don't like it."- regarding the amount of time that Yves Lavigne took to stop the Diaz-Davis fight once the choke was in.

"I thought it was the best takedown I've ever seen in my life."- regarding Couture's low single leg.

Randy Couture Quotes

"Spent the whole camp working on that low shot."

It went "exactly how I saw it in my head."

"I didn't feel like he demonstrated any real skills once he hit his butt and his back."

"You kind of want James to have the complete mixed martial arts experience, don't you?"- regarding going for the submission rather than just ground and pound.

Other Information

Dana White noted that he was nervous before Couture took on Toney, not because he didn't have confidence, but rather because he knew that anything could happen in a fight.

Mark Fisher was hired to run things in Asia, perhaps the next UFC frontier.

There were 15,575 in the building at UFC 118.

The Nate Diaz-Marcus Davis bout took home fight of the night. Joe Lauzon won submission of the night.

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