Yves Lavigne – “I screwed up”

Yves Lavigne is taking the high road and admitting his mistakes at UFC 96.

In case you missed it, Yves, pulled the old “get off my homeboy” technique  at UFC 96, and pulled Matt Brown away from Pete Sell after Brown dropped him, seemingly stopping the fight, only to let the fight continue and allow Matt Brown to beat Pete Sell into a dazed and confused mess.

Where Pete Sell thought he was the last 1:15 seconds of the fight.

Lavigne spoke with around the octagon, owning up to his mistakes:

“I screwed up. There’s not much to say. I screwed up the fight. I made a rookie mistake at the beginning and stopped it way too soon. I kind of restarted the fight. It wasn’t over at that point and I made the decision to look like a fool and say ok, keep going. I may have deprived Mr. Brown of an early victory but we’ll never know because of me.”

After the fight Lavigne went to the back and checked on Sell, “Mr. Sell was ok, according to him and said I should’ve let it go.” Lavigne says. “I went to talk to him to see if he was ok. I do that on a regular basis after the fight. Sometimes with the adrenaline they tell the doctor they are ok but sometime later they are not. He really was ok.”

When asked if he talked to Dana White after the fight Lavigne responded, “I don’t talk to Dana White. The longest conversation I have ever had with him is hello and goodbye. I don’t work for him. I work for the Athletic Commission. My boss is Mr. Bernie Profato from Ohio. After that fight we had a quick debriefing next to the cage. He asked me a bunch of questions and I answered all of them. He asked me if I was good to go for the main event and I said, Yes Sir. He has the power to remove me but he didn’t. He could have put in Big Dan. We talked after the event and everything seemed fine.”

So there you have it, Yves, is born to make mistakes just like the rest of us, and unlike 99 percent of people working in conjunction with the UFC, he could care less what the hell Dana white thinks of his job performance… Interesting.  - – Don’t be so hard on him though, like he’s the only man in history to make a mistake…

I rest my case.

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