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Travis Browne on foul-filled win over Matt Mitrione: 'I am not a dirty fighter'

Travis Browne has a message after his controversial performance against Matt Mitrione: "I'm not a ditry fighter."

Browne's heavyweight main-card bout against Mitrione Sunday at UFC Fight Night 81 turned on a pair of eye pokes, neither of which were penalized by referee Gary Forman.

But Browne says not only were the eye pokes not intentional, but that he was profusely apologetic to Mitrione in the Octagon at Boston's TD Garden.

"In the cage I was apologizing up and down to Matt," said Browne, who won via third-round TKO. "That's not my game.