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Quinton Jackson spoke last night about his win over Lyoto Machida in the main event of UFC 123. Check out the highlights:

Dana White on Jackson: “‘Rampage’ and I are getting along, but he’s pissing me off again. I had ‘Rampage’ winning that fight two rounds to one. … I scored that fight for ‘Rampage.’ He is slumping down and holding up the other guy’s hand and acting like he lost. I thought he won.”

Jackson’s response: “I just got done getting punched in the face a couple times. Don’t pay me no mind. My trainers are in there and told me I won the fight. But when I was in the fight, I just had a one-track mind to knock him out. In the third round, he came at me so much, I forget what happened in the first two rounds. … It’s one of those things where at the time I thought I was getting my ass whooped because I was just on the ground taking a flurry to my face.”

On nearly having to pull out of the fight: “None of you guys know this, but this fight was almost canceled a few days ago because I caught a fever from my son and was throwing up and everything and had to cut weight. I was like, ‘I almost didn’t make it to the fight.’ But I didn’t want to let my fans down. I really wanted to come in and do everything I had and give it my all since Detroit was so pumped for this fight.”

On his PRIDE music: “I remember PRIDE. Everyone knew me and loved me. I used to fight for honor and respect. Now I come to the UFC, and I make way more money than I did in PRIDE, so I got a little greedy and fighting for the dollars and stuff. So I wanted to come out to PRIDE (music) and get that old PRIDE spirit. I felt like some of it kind of came back. I even tried to slam Machida.”

On having more respect for Machida’s style: “It’s different fighting than Machida than watching Machida. I have more respect for his style. I wish I could move like that. I have more respect for his style. But I still don’t want to watch it.”