{"id":228729,"date":"2017-03-19T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T16:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=228729"},"modified":"2017-04-14T13:44:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:44:18","slug":"brad-pickett-discusses-head-kick-ko-loss-younger-wouldve-chewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/brad-pickett\/brad-pickett-discusses-head-kick-ko-loss-younger-wouldve-chewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pickett discusses KO loss: &#8216;The younger me would&#8217;ve chewed that [kick] up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, on the main card of the UFC&#8217;s latest trip to London, UK MMA legend Brad Pickett stepped onto the canvas for a final time. His opponent in this retirement fight was late-replacement Marlon &#8220;Chito&#8221; Vera, a young but dangerous out for pretty much any fighter in the division.\u00a0Though Pickett won the first two rounds of the fight, and seemed to be in control heading into the third, his retirement fight was ultimately spoiled by <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/brad-pickett\/ufc-fight-night-107-results-brad-pickett-vs-marlon-vera\/\">a beautiful, late-fight head-kick from the young Vera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of this fight, Pickett joined the media for a short press conference to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/brad-pickett\/brad-pickett-issues-statement-following-retirement-fight-loss\/\">discuss his failed retirement fight<\/a>, sharing his belief that, were he a little younger, he would have absorbed Vera&#8217;s fight-ending strike without issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI was winning the fight for 14 minutes, and then I got a head kick where, to be honest, the younger me would have chewed that up and carried on going,\u201d Pickett said (via <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/03\/retiring-brad-pickett-on-head-kick-ko-loss-the-younger-me-wouldve-chewed-that-up\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>). \u201cIt\u2019s definitely the right decision (to retire).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cObviously, it\u2019s not the fairytale ending that myself and probably everyone else wanted,&#8221; he continued.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pickett then touched on the fact that, if he had relied more heavily on his wrestling, he might have been able to produce the win. According to the UK pioneer, however, that&#8217;s just not his style.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s me \u2013 my fighting style,\u201d he said. \u201cI live by the sword, die by\u00a0the sword. I say I fight for the fans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I did have some trouble taking him down when I went for a takedown, but I could have just taken him down and laid on him and made it boring,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But for me, I wanted to be in a typical Brad Pickett fight. And in a typical Brad Pickett fight, it would\u2019ve been me getting up and carrying on fighting [after the kick].\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think Brad Pickett should have been allowed to keep fighting after Vera&#8217;s head-kick landed? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 3\/19\/2017. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, on the main card of the UFC&#8217;s latest trip to London, UK MMA legend Brad Pickett stepped onto the canvas for a final time. His opponent in this retirement fight was late-replacement Marlon &#8220;Chito&#8221; Vera, a young but dangerous out for pretty much any fighter in the division.\u00a0Though Pickett won the first two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":165638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10472],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brad Pickett discusses KO loss: &#039;The younger me would&#039;ve chewed that [kick] up&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Last night, Brad Pickett stepped into the cage for a final time. 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