There is nothing Brett Rogers can say from now on that can top Ben Rothwell’s recent crazy remarks. First, I want to preface this by saying, I do agree with Ben Rothwell about the fact that the fight was stopped early. I even said so in our UFC 104 post-fight column, but I cannot figure out how anyone, including Rothwell, thought that fight was close or even that though Rothwell was going to mount comeback.

In an interview, Rothwell says the first round was extremely close and he was about to comeback when the fight was stopped. He says a lot more insane things, but I think I will let you read them for yourself. Prepare to laugh:

“So what he was punching me, big deal, isn’t that what happens in a fight? The reality of the situation is that I was using the cage to get to my feet and which I basically did and then for some reason Steve [Mazzagatti] decides to step in. Honestly, I couldn’t believe it. I mean if the punches had some force behind them I could understand it but those were like soft jabs that didn’t hurt at all, it was like he was just hitting me to stay busy rather than damage me. That’s is why I wasn’t covering up – the punches didn’t hurt and definitely weren’t doing any damage, at least not enough to slow me down, but then he [Steve Mazzagatti] calls the fight? Please, my grandmother hits harder that that. Maybe it looked bad to those at home and to those who have never trained but I had worked back into standing position and was ready to fire back some of my own, so how bad could the punches have really been? Come on, if you would have seen me the next day you’d have hardly thought I was in a fight – I woke up the next day with barely a scratch on my face. Look at some fights I have had in my career, I’ve been in plenty of worse positions and managed to turn the fight around and win.

You know Shogun wasn’t the only one robbed that night. So what If I lost the first round by a small margin, all that meant is there were still two rounds up for grabs, my shoulders were just loosening up at the beginning of the second round – the real fight was just getting started. Look, I don’t want to make this sound like I’m taking anything away from Cain, he’s a great fighter, probably one of the best in the heavyweight division at the moment. I just feel like I’ve been working my entire career to get this shot in the UFC, only to have it taken away from me by an incompetent referee. Losing is one thing but to have such a big opportunity taken from you? I’m disgusted.

That’s getting up from his back what my wrestling coach Peter Senerchia and I had worked on before the fight. Each time he took me down I made my way to the fence and got back to me feet like we planned. I had so many different tools in my arsenal that could have led to a victory but I feel like I didn’t really get a chance to show them, that the fans didn’t get a chance to see what Ben Rothwell is all about. I’d have loved to have knocked Cain out and I really feel like I could have, but we all know what happened there. The worst part is I figured out early that Cain is a decent wrestler and was taking me down a lot quicker than I anticipated so I basically told myself the next time Cain takes me down I’m going to forget about the knockout and submit him. I have great jujitsu and great submissions but people don’t realize this because I don’t call on these skills too often because my hands are so devastating. Anyway, sure enough Cain managed to take me down and pressed me up against the cage. I had a standing arm lock (kimura) basically given to me on a silver platter that I was setting up and Mazzagatti went and stole it from me. It was like he stole Thanksgiving day dinner from me right from underneath my nose. I’m still feeling really pissed off about this fight and I really feel like Cain didn’t beat me, poor officiating did.

You feel as ripped off as I do, let me apologize, but I also want all you people to know that next time I step in the cage no ref is going to steal anything from me and tell me what fight I didn’t win, I’m gonna take matters into my own hands and put some people to sleep, bank on it”