Matt Mitrione förlorade senast matchen mot Travis Browne via TKO då de möttes under ”UFC: Fight Night 81”, men mötet var inte helt utan kontroverser då Mitrione vid flertalet gånger blev petad i ögonen. Domaren Gary Forman bröt aldrig matchen, något som Matt tyckte att han borde gjort, och nu har Mitrione överklagat matchresultatet:
Så här sade Matt via ”MMAFighting”:
My case is extremely strong, extremely valid. And I know a lot of times people have cases when they appeal something and it’s a very valid position and nothing ever happens, it doesn’t get overturned. Well, that’s bullsh*t. A lot of that problem, I think, is because the commission takes a lot of pride in who they hire and they don’t feel like they can be accountable for those mistakes.
People f*ck up. It happens. I don’t think the commission should take it on the chin like they apparently do and it shouldn’t be a shot at their ego.
I actually got admonished for aggressively closing distance to strike, because Travis was bailing out. That’s madness to me. He acknowledges the fact that he missed the foul, because he knew it was a finger that caused that poke, and warns Travis, but doesn’t stop the fight… The fact that it’s gonna stick on my record as a loss with no asterisk on it because I had the balls to carry forward versus just stopping — that’s madness.
Travis should not get, in my opinion, the victory on that fight. Travis didn’t win that fight. There were a substantial amount of errors in that fight and it shouldn’t have ever gotten to that point.
