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25th September 2016
04:52pm BST

"It was a push. It was more of like, dude, come on." "Then we had a conversation in the cage. I was like, 'Dude, he was knocked out.' And [McCarthy] was like, ‘No, he wasn't.' And I'm like, dude, I know what a knockout is. I knock people out. That's what I do for a living. I know what a knockout is. Just because the guy didn't roll his eyes into the back of his head, or shake, or whatever ... it was just one of those things."Nelson apologised to McCarthy for his reaction, but confessed that he did not regret doing it. He thought Bigfoot was taking a needless amount of damage because the referee took his time stepping in.
"I didn't want to hurt ‘Bigfoot' more than I had to. And I got taken by the moment, because it's like I'm beating the shit out of somebody and you're like, dude, enough is enough. And for me, it hurt my feelings. And I apologise to Big John, but I wouldn't take it back. It just hurt me, that I've got to keep on hitting a guy that doesn't need to be hit."The UFC confirmed after the bout that they would not punish Nelson for the incident and that any further action would have to be taken up by the Brazilian athletic commission (CABMMA). The CABMMA told MMA Fighting that they would not take any action unless McCarthy filed a complaint. Catch up on the first episode of Football Friday Live...
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