http://www.bjpenn.com/profiles/blogs/an ... plains-ufcQuote:
"You dump, inside the octagon, all the tensions that have build up in the months prior to the fight. This is not an excuse, you let all that go inside the ring. The way that I found to do that is what’s causing all these controversies. I did things that I never saw me doing. That’s when people started saying: "This guy is crazy, he’s just fooling around!". There, at that moment, it was me letting go of three or four months of accumulations... I didn’t get to the top, I didn’t become a champion without being humble. But there was really a lot of talk. He said he respected me as a fighter, but as a person he questioned my attitude, my character. He said a spider had eight legs and he would rip one of them in the ring. Of course this is just hype to promote the fight. I even had fights where the talk was even worse, but on this particular one I really needed to let everything out... I wouldn’t say I lost control. From the bottom of my heart, I wouldn’t do it again. Better yet, I would do it differently. I tried to show people and, especially to Demian, that I’m not fooling around. I didn’t get there by chance. I am four times world champion. I have the capacity, conditions, I know who I am. There are a lot of people who talks about [the] fight [game] and don’t know what they say. I didn’t intend to disrespect Demian, I only imposed my game, my strategy and tried to make him frustrated. I respect all fighters"