Rising Mixed Martial Arts star Sam Patterson vowed to get straight back into the gym in his quest for continued improvement after claiming his second successive victory by submission.
The 28-year-old, from Radlett, needed just under three minutes to force Irishman Kiefer Crosbie to tap-out with an arm-triangle choke in their welterweight contest at UFC 304 in Manchester on Saturday.
“I am a student of this game,” Patterson said in his post-fight interview. “I’ll be in the gym Monday, I will find something to do and fix it. I’ll sit on the win over the weekend but come Monday I’ll be watching the fight and seeing what I did wrong in it and fixing it.
“I would kill the guy that I was on my debut and I’d kill the guy that I was in January so I’m always improving.”
The victory was reminiscent of his last fight in Toronto, in which Patterson, who fights for Team Crossface at NRG Gym in Watford, beat Yohan Lainesse in the first round via a rear-naked choke submission in the Quebec native’s own back yard.
The fight began with Crosbie attempting to come out striking fast, knowing that Patterson’s Jiu Jitsu pedigree would be too much for him if the fight did eventually end up on the canvas.
Crosbie was subjected to a brutal uppercut from his opponent that disorientated him. That then gave Sam the ability to take him down, and finally finish the fight via an arm-triangle choke.
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