UFC bantamweight Bethe Correia suffered a knockout loss to former UFC bantamweight champion Holly Holm at UFC Fight Night 111, becoming the second fighter to suffer under the question mark kick of the former champion. Now, Correia has come forward with her thoughts on the recent loss.
In an interview with MMA Fighting, Bethe Correia explained that she had her teeth evaluated after being kicked by Holly Holm.
“I left (the Octagon) and my mouth was bleeding a little, and I had the feeling of having my teeth loose. They asked me to have my dentist evaluating it, but it’s all good. I won’t stay away from fighting for six months [laughs]. Haters will watch Bethe back in the Octagon and winning again. Sometimes a defeat makes me hungrier, more anxious to come back and silence the haters.
“I also believe UFC female fighters hate me the most [laughs]. They hate me, they want to fight me. They hate me because win, lose or draw, I promote more and draw more audience than all of them combined.”
As far as her strategy in the fight, Correia explained:
“I was doing what I wanted to do, finding the right distance against Holly, who moves well in the Octagon, and getting loose in order to go for the submission or the knockout. I think I was getting loose, getting confident, and then the kick landed. Maybe because I got distracted, but it happened.
“I don’t think it was because of the taunting. I’ve done that before. I think I didn’t pay attention to the right distance to avoid her attacks. The kick happened after I stopped taunted, my hands were high. People think I lost because of (the taunting), but it wasn’t. I think that if I hadn’t stopped paying attention to the distance, maybe it wouldn’t have landed. I stopped in a distance that was unsafe for me and benefited her.”
