Jake Matthews and his crew can be submitting an attraction following his controversial third-round submission loss to Neil Magny at UFC Perth.
Late within the first spherical, Matthews sunk in a guillotine choke, and with one second left, the ref stopped the combat. Nevertheless, Magny popped proper again up and protested, which led to the ref ruling he by no means really stopped the combat, and that the bout would proceed. Matthews had a stable second spherical, however Magny rallied and submitted the Aussie within the third spherical for a comeback win, which resulted in loads of controversy.
Following the controversial loss, Matthews and his crew are set to attraction the outcome, citing the ref stopping the bout, his administration crew confirmed to BJPENN.com.
“Sure, we can be interesting,” Matthews’ administration despatched in an e-mail to BJPENN.com.
The hope is that the combat will get overturned to a No Contest. Matthews’ administration crew feels that the combat shouldn’t have restarted after the ref stopped it.
Neil Magny reacts to controversial win over Jake Matthews
After a tricky first two rounds, Neil Magny rallied to attain an exhilarating submission win over Jake Matthews at UFC Perth.
Following the win, he spoke to Paul Felder within the Octagon and mentioned he knew he needed to carry on preventing.
“It felt nice,” Magny mentioned after the win. “I’m really lucky and blessed to have the ability to do that. I used to be really looking that energy bomb… All the time hold preventing, at all times hold urgent ahead.”
With the loss, Jake Matthews fell to 22-8 and had his three-fight dropping streak snapped. Earlier than the controversial loss, Matthews had a submission win over Chidi Njokuani, a call win over Francisco Prado, and a call win over Phil Rowe. Matthews is now 15-8 within the UFC.
Neil Magny, in the meantime, improved to 31-13 as a professional and 24-12 within the UFC. The veteran is now on a two-fight successful streak after scoring a TKO win over Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos final outing.
