Signing off from an interview today with MMAjunkie Radio, UFC lightweight Jorge Masvidal made his feelings known in the form of a question, for which he also provided an answer.

“If (the UFC) called me right now and they’re like, ‘So-and-so needs to get his ass whipped, Jorge, you want to some easy money?'” Masvidal said. “Jorge can say yes, and guess who has to sit out for 60 days or whatnot and wait until the doctor says, ‘OK, you’re good enough to fight now, boy.'”

Masvidal (28-9 MMA, 5-2 UFC), of course, was referring to his UFC Fight Night 63 opponent, Al Iaquinta (12-3-1 MMA, 7-2 UFC), who took home a controversial split-decision win at the event this past Saturday at Patriot Center in Fairfax, Va. The fight served as the event’s co-headliner on FOX Sports 1.

Contrary to Masvidal’s implication, Iaquinta was was not among four medical suspensions handed out by the Virginia Professional Boxing, Wrestling, and Martial Arts Advisory Board – despite a generous cut he suffered in the first round.

Masvidal, though, is left only with questions after his loss to Iaquinta, which snapped a three-fight winning streak and handed “The Ultimate Fighter 15” runner-up his fourth straight victory, opening the door to ranked opposition, and, of course, a title shot.

“I landed at a much higher percentage of what I threw,” Masvidal said. “The percentage wasn’t even close, and I threw even more. So when people are saying he was more active, how? If you’re just swinging at the air, is that active?”

One judge, Doug Crosby, gave every round to Masvidal, 30-27. But the two other judges, Cardo Urso and Dave Tirelli, awarded Iaquinta the second and third rounds after he was dropped to the canvas and nearly finished in the opening frame.

Masvidal cites punch stats, which have him outlanding Iaquinta in significant strikes, and a brief knockdown in the second round as two examples of his dominance.

“He threw a low kick, and boom, I dropped him with a right,” Masvidal said. “In boxing and in MMA or any organization, you throw a strike, I counter with a strike, and your hand touches the canvas and you wobble on the way back up, that’s a knockdown. They didn’t count that.”

But Masvidal is also pondering a larger point: Is his counter-punching strategy destined to fail when his bouts go to the scorecards?

“So basically in my next fight, I can eat all the punches I want as long as I come forward and have a big smile on my face and yell at the crowd, ‘F-ck you,'” he said. “It makes no damn sense.”

Before the fight’s third round, as Masvidal’s move-and-counter strategy had been well-established, a cornerman suggested he take Iaquinta to the mat. But Masvidal felt he was so in control of the fight that such a tactic – undoubtedly designed to sway judges who often interpret top control as a winning position – wasn’t necessary.

“I was like, ‘You know what? No man – I feel like I can knock him out,'” he said. “He still made mistakes, and I capitalized on them, but they weren’t as big as I wanted them to be. I could have forced the issue, but I felt so in control. I was seeing everything.”

Clearly, Urso and Tirelli saw differently. Judges rarely, if ever, make themselves available to explain what they saw and why they saw a contest a certain way, so Masvidal can only make assumptions.

“I was circling left; I was circling right,” he said. “They didn’t like that? They didn’t like me dropping my hands at certain times and making him miss? We’ve got to go out there and hurt each other; he’s got to hurt me or I’ve got to hurt him. Who would you want to be at the end of the fight?”

At the announcement of the decision, Masvidal threw up his hands and made a speedy exit, briefly stopping for a perfunctory congratulations to Iaquinta. Iaquinta’s coach, Matt Serra, also offered some positive words. Asked whether he’d like to settle his frustration with a rematch, however, he was ambivalent.

“Nobody likes easy money more than me,” he said. “I’ll do the rematch today. But at the same time, me doing that rematch is conceding, because I’m like, ‘Y’all f-cked up, but you know what? I’ll bite the bullet. You cut half my check anyway, but I’ll still bite the bullet for the commission and do it again.’ I already got ripped off this time by not getting my full money. Now I’ve got to go out there and do it again.

“Now, if (UFC President) Dana White said, ‘I need you to the rematch,’ or something crazy like that or really put some pressure on me, it’s how I feed my kids, so, I don’t know. But I don’t really care for the rematch, and I’ll bet you anything Al don’t care for the rematch, either. He tried everything he could in there, and he got nothing but airballs.

“I saw it in his face – he was broken. He didn’t want none of this. He kept telling everybody in the world he was going to take me down and Matt Serra my ass with all that jiu-jitsu stuff. Ain’t none of that even come close.”

Iaquinta cursed at the crowd when it suggested his victory wasn’t earned, but Masvidal is more incensed at the fighter’s claim post-fight that a street fight between them would have also ended in his favor.

“Man, I don’t know what suburb this guy grew up in or where he got in fistfights,” Masvidal said. “Man, if you get in a fight, and you get dropped, nobody comes to save you because if somebody jumps in from your side, the people from my side are going to jump in. So in a street fight, you would have woke up looking like you got sponsored by Nike because I would have stood over him and kicked his face in.”

And so, it’s onward but not necessarily upward for Masvidal, who now has to rebuild momentum. The restart could also come with a few revisions on the style that’s served him well over the years.

“If the rematch takes place and that’s what they want me to do, man, I’ll end this guy’s night,” he said. “But at the same time, why is it that I can’t win a fight moving left, moving right and using angles? Why do I have to stand in there and let him hit me and me hit him?”

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