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Joseph Benavidez, on “Beatdown,” discussing the in-cage conversation he had with Ian McCall at UFC 156:

“I had him against the cage. I was kneeing him in the inside thigh, hit him in the balls, and Ian goes, ‘Damn, dude. Watch out for my nuts.’ And then I was like, ‘Dude, you already have a kid. You’ll be fine.’ And then I kept kneeing him again. It was so weird. We just talked and then we broke apart and smiled at each other.”

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