Welterweight Santiago Ponzinibbio was in dire want of a formidable win at UFC 282 coming off of two straight losses contained in the Octagon. Paired up in opposition to Alex Morono, the Argentinian struggled early in his combat, however some urgency from his nook helped him flip issues round late to select up a TKO victory.
In an interview with Ag Struggle, Santiago defined his thought course of and what he mentioned along with his coach between rounds throughout the combat. Surprisingly sufficient, it appears the ‘Argentine Dagger’ was unaware he had dropped the primary two rounds, however was capable of finding the arrogance to search for a end within the final 5 minutes.
“That’s what I mentioned with my coach. I didn’t know I had misplaced the primary two rounds,” Ponzinibbio admitted. “Then he instructed me ‘We’re positively down two rounds. Do one thing totally different’. Thank God I believed with coronary heart, I landed my palms and I seemed for the knockout. It’s powerful. Generally you’ve gotten already been harm, chances are you’ll be injured, drained or annoyed as a result of issues aren’t taking place such as you anticipated.
“Then once they inform you you’re shedding the combat, it feels prefer it’s all misplaced.” Santiago added. “There’s this stress. Thankfully, I used to be capable of deal with the stress and say ‘You already know what?’ I’m going to stroll ahead, I’m going to land my photographs. I do know I’ll harm him. I he doesn’t go down. A minimum of I’ll have tried.’”
The win over Moreno was Ponzinibbio’s first since a 2021 resolution over Miguel Baeza, and adopted cut up resolution losses to Michel Pereira and Geoff Neal. The 36-year-old returned to motion in final 12 months after greater than two years on the sidelines as a consequence of quite a few well being points.
