In the first meeting, Weidman had taken a lot of leg kicks. So in training camp he'd focused on defending them. "That was the No. 1 thing I got hit with in the first fight, so I did work a lot against guys with good kicks, and was working on checking them a lot," he said. "I did think that if he's going to go that hard on kicks, as he usually does, if I catch it on my knee it could really hurt him. But it's still crazy how that happened."