I don't know what went wrong in my head. I don't know what happened and why I chose to fight that fight on the ground. Sure I made the fight exciting and I've gotten lots of positive responses on how well I did on the ground with a guy like Maia. But at the end of the day, he caught me and that's what he does best. I played into his game. It was a stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid fight on my behalf. And I take the full blame 100 percent for it. I'll take it right on the forehead like I took those hundred elbows from Maia. And that's that. I'm pretty disappointed because Maia was beatable if I had held that fight standing up. And I paid the price for not doing it.
-- UFC middleweight Jason 'The Athlete' MacDonald grounds and pounds himself on Sportsnet.ca for not following his gameplan or the instructions from his corner during his submission loss to grappling phenom Demian Maia at UFC 87: 'Seek and Destroy' on August 9.
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