Fighting close to home is a lot more challenging than it looks, Brazilian Demian Maia now knows. The UFC welterweight said familiar surroundings prompted him to relax at a time when he needed to hurry in his previous fight against Jake Shields, which took place in his hometown of Sao Paulo at UFC Fight Night 29. Two of three judges ruled he hadn’t done enough to secure victory at the October 2013 event. “At one point in the last round, I thought I was winning, because in my mind, I was like, ‘I put him down four times; he put me down once,’” Maia told MMAjunkie Radio.
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UFC 170′s Demian Maia moves on from disappointment, happy to leave Brazil – MMA Junkie