A healed Brandon Wolff doesn’t want to get his ass kicked again at UFC 98

“I got beat up pretty good. He got me good. I made the mistake of staying in a Muay Thai clinch a little too long and I paid the man…. I was more mentally distraught than anything. I was just unhappy about how I got destroyed in my debut. But I healed up good. And I just wanted to get back in there as soon as possible. . . . I was just happy to get a second chance. I didn’t think I was going to get one…. It was the first time ever that I’ve got my ass kicked. It was a good learning experience — something that’s never going to happen again…. It just didn’t go as planned…. I’m really fortunate to be fighting again in the UFC. And I feel like I owe myself and everybody else out there a war, an exciting fight. And that’s what I’ve been preparing myself for.”

Brandon Wolff talks about his future career inside the Octagon after “sustaining four facial fractures, including a fractured forehead, and a broken nose” in a brutal loss to Ben Saunders in his Octagon debut at UFC: “Fight for the Troops” in Dec. 2008. The Hawaiian is set to battle Yoshiyuki Yoshida at UFC 98: “Evans vs. Machida” on May 23, vowing to not make the same mistakes twice in his encore performance, which is great news for whoever picks up his hospital tab.