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QUOTABLES: Sam Stout discusses brutal knockout win over Yves Edwards at UFC 131
Jun 13, 2011 - 9:55:46 AM QUOTABLES: Sam Stout discusses brutal knockout win over Yves Edwards at UFC 131

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

"I saw... he folded right up and went down and hit the back of his head pretty hard. I had my eyes right on his eyes and I saw them roll back, so I wasn't going to go in and try to do any more damage than was necessary.

This is just a sport to me and I'm not somebody who's trying to hurt anybody. And Yves Edwards is a guy with class and I've respected him for a long time. He's a good guy. He gave me a cookie at the weigh-ins. I'm not going to try and hurt a guy like that.

I've been calling myself 'Hands of Stone,' and I haven't knocked anybody out in the last five years, so I was starting to get a little worried about it.

It was definitely a big relief to get that knockout. It was a good feeling that I haven't felt in a while and I think you can see if you go back and watch the tape of my celebration, it got extended a little bit. I was jumping up and down and screaming for a while. It feels good to be knocking people out again and I hope to keep it going."

-Sam Stout discusses his "Knockout of the Night" over Yves Edwards at the UFC 131 post-fight press conference (transcribed by MMAJunkie.com).

Penick's Analysis: Dana White called it "one of the nastiest knockouts" he's ever seen, and it certainly was brutal. Edwards' head bouncing off the canvas was sick, and him being out for several minutes was a scary sight, but the best part of that sequence was Stout recognizing the clear KO and withholding any further damage. It's far too rare at times to see someone hold up when it's clear their opponent is out, so it was refreshing to see Stout's sportsmanship in that spot after delivering one of the more brutal knockouts you can see. The punch was perfectly placed, and it was absolutely huge for him after failing to finish any of his previous ten UFC opponents.