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MMA: Geje Eustaquio on ONE loss — I was waiting for Moraes to break my knee

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Dennis Gasgonia, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/sports/01/25/20190125-geje-eustaquio-one.jpg"/><figcaption>There was no quit in Geje Eustaquio (right) during his ONE flyweight title defense against Adriano Moraes on Friday night, even if it meant losing his knee. ONE Championship</figcaption></figure></div>There was no quit in Geje Eustaquio during his ONE flyweight title defense against Adriano Moraes on Friday night even if it meant losing his knee.That was the situation the Filipino fighter faced in the fourth round when the Brazilian challenger caught Eustaquio&#x27;s left leg in a painful kneebar from back mount.&quot;I must admit that was a deep knee bar. I was waiting for Adriano to break my knee and let him bring it, but I won&#x27;t tap,&quot; Eustaquio said. &quot;I have decided to finish the fight.&quot;After seeing that Eustaquio refused to tap, Moraes eventually let go of the knee, but the damage had already been done. Eustaquio was hobbling in the final round as he forced himself to trade strikes against Moraes, who eventually won via unanimous decision.Still, Eustaquio believed he did enough to defend the crown. He was on a roll during the first three rounds, even edging Moraes on the ground in the second stanza. &quot;In my mind, I thought I was winning the fight,&quot; Eustaquio said. &quot;But that&#x27;s part of it, there&#x27;s ups and downs. The road doesn&#x27;t end there. It doesn&#x27;t stop there.&quot;&quot;It&#x27;s time to get back to the drawing board. It hurts but we are people of the mountains, there is no mountain we cannot conquer,&quot; he added.His coach, Mark Sangiao, was baffled with the result. &quot;We&#x27;re very sad, but it is what it is. As Geje said, we&#x27;ll go back to the drawing board, watch the fight to see what happened,&quot; said Sangiao.&quot;The whole team felt that we won, they said we have to respect the judges so we&#x27;ll come back better.&quot;For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com/">ABS-CBN Sports website</a>.

There was no quit in Geje Eustaquio during his ONE flyweight title defense against Adriano Moraes on Friday night, even if it meant losing his knee.

There was no quit in Geje Eustaquio during his ONE flyweight title defense against Adriano Moraes on Friday night, even if it meant losing his knee.

MMA: Geje Eustaquio on ONE loss — I was waiting for Moraes to break my knee

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MMA: Geje Eustaquio on ONE loss — I was waiting for Moraes to break my knee

Dennis Gasgonia,

ABS-CBN News

Published January 27, 2019 12:01 AM PHT

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