{"id":312331,"date":"2019-05-05T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=312331"},"modified":"2019-05-05T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T13:00:15","slug":"donald-cerrone-on-ufc-ottawa-win-today-was-my-worst-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/donald-cerrone-on-ufc-ottawa-win-today-was-my-worst-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Cerrone on UFC Ottawa win: \u2018Today was my worst day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donald Cerrone picked up a huge win in the Ottawa main event, defeating Al Iaquinta by unanimous decision and cementing himself as one of the top contenders in the UFC lightweight division. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the sounds of it, however, he didn&#8217;t enter the fight in a great frame of mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was telling my corners, I felt terrible starting that fight,\u201d Cerrone said post-fight (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/5\/5\/18529913\/donald-cerrone-younger-me-would-have-quit-against-al-iaquinta-at-ufc-ottawa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMA Fighting (opens in a new tab)\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cI couldn\u2019t find it, back in the locker room I didn\u2019t want to warm up. I didn\u2019t want to get ready, I didn\u2019t want to hit pads, I didn\u2019t want to wrestle. I didn\u2019t want to fight until the second round. People always say I\u2019m a slow starter and, \u2018What Cowboy are you going to get?\u2019 And we train hard, we train so hard and we try and find for our opponents to beat us so that we can show up and beat them on our worst day. And today was my worst day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank God it\u2019s been 41 fights in Zuffa that I\u2019ve been here because I was able to, like, fake it \u2018til you make it, \u2018cause you fake it long enough and you find it. In the second round it was like, there it is and let\u2019s go to work. It\u2019s just tough, because I think the younger me would have quit. It\u2019s just crazy, there\u2019s like memes out there of lions with little cubs saying, \u2018I would have quit until I realized who was watching\u2019 and it was like, yeah, motherf*cker, let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Cowboy you get is a crapshoot,\u201d Cerrone added. \u201cIf it was Al, he had my number, he should have just f*ckin\u2019 turned it on in the first round because I was lost. I don\u2019t know where I was, but I wasn\u2019t in the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Were you impressed by Donald Cerrone in the UFC Ottawa main event?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;on 5\/3\/2019.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Cerrone picked up a huge win in the Ottawa main event, defeating Al Iaquinta by unanimous decision and cementing himself as one of the top contenders in the UFC lightweight division. 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