November 28, 2024 12:40 pm ET
Michael Chandler refutes claims that he struck Charles Oliveira with unlawful blows at UFC 309.
Oliveira (35-10 MMA, 23-10 UFC) managed to fend off Chandler’s (23-9 MMA, 2-4 UFC) late rally to win a unanimous decision in their rematch lower than two weeks in the past at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York.
Chandler dropped Oliveira late within the struggle, and landed an array of pictures which many – together with the commentators deemed as unlawful pictures to the again of the pinnacle. Oliveira took issue with the blows, however Chandler insists that the pictures landed to the facet of the ear.
“I’m not going to say I didn’t do something flawed, OK? I’m not going to say that individuals couldn’t take a look at it and splice it and take a look at it beneath a fine-tooth comb and a magnifying glass,” Chandler stated on “The Ariel Helwani Show.” “However the unified guidelines of combined martial arts say that there’s a line drawn from the crown of the pinnacle right down to the neck, one-inch variance on both facet.
“So that you’re speaking a few two-inch space on the again of somebody’s head that’s thought-about the again of the pinnacle. In the event you watch 90 % of the pictures, not less than, most of them, nearly all of them, my fist was catching the ear. In the event you’re catching the ear, that’s not the again of the pinnacle. Really, what you and I’d name the again of the pinnacle just isn’t the precise definition of what it’s. That two-inch strip down the again of the pinnacle.” Referee Keith Peterson didn’t give official warnings to Chandler for any wrongdoing through the struggle, and by no means warned Chandler about any of his strikes in that sequence.
“A referee who was inside two ft away by no means stated one factor about it,” Chandler stated. “Then you definitely’ve obtained commentators who had been 35-feet away saying it’s the again of the pinnacle and also you’ve obtained different folks saying it was again of the pinnacle.”
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