Despite Jacob Malkoun’s UFC debut lasting just 18 seconds, the previously undefeated Australian learned a key aspect of the fight game after landing on the wrong end of a knockout against Phil Hawes.
“Winning and losing is not everything,” he told UFC.com “Maybe the next couple of days, it’s going to affect your life, but after three, four days, everything is the same. It doesn’t really matter.”
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Malkoun said the experience “probably did mature” him, but he couldn’t say for sure.