Referee Mario Yamasaki, UFC matchmakers, and PRVT coach Gilliard Parana have been criticized the past few days for the beating that Priscila Cachoeira suffered against Valentina Shevchenko, but the Brazilian fighter doesn’t regret anything.

Cachoeira lost her UFC debut against “Bullet” in the co-main event of UFC Belem on Saturday night via second-round submission, but many believe the fight should have been stopped before getting to that point.

In a statement posted on her social media in her native Portuguese, Cachoeira, who will likely stay out of action until 2019 due to a knee injury sustained in the first exchange of the fight, thanked her coach for not throwing in the towel.

Check the full statement below.

”I ask for forgiveness to my fans, friends and family that threw a party to watch my fight. I fought a really tough fighter, who I’m a fan of, and I wasn’t the real ‘Pedrita’ in the fight. Who knows me and followed my daily training knows what I could have done. And even with the knee injury early in the fight, I went until the end because I don’t know what giving up means. I’ll have to have surgery on the ACL and meniscus. And there’s people still talking about me fighting the top 1 and etc, that my master told me to shut up and blah blah LOL.

”I’ll fight against any fighter in the world, no matter which position she is [in the ranking]. I’d fight Valentina 10 times more without thinking twice. Who chooses easy battles is not a real warrior. The treatment and intimacy that I have with my master, the ones from outside doesn’t know anything to criticize. This is not master and student, it’s father and daughter, and no one can say how he should treat me. And about throwing in the towel, this is PRVT and we’re the ones that know our limits. Throwing in the towel, never.

”Thank you for all the messages of love and support I’ve been receiving. I’m sure I’ve gotten a family for the rest of my life. And those who are criticizing, I don’t care, I’ll come back stronger. ‘A moment will not erase a history.’”