UFCs welterviktare och veteran Erick Silva lämnade in en överklagan till Brazilian Mixed Martial Arts Athletic Commission (CABMMA) med hopp om att ändra sin TKO-förlust mot Yancy Medeiros på UFC 212 i början av juni till en no-contest.
Nu har Silvas överklagan blivit nekad.
I en redogörelse från CABMMAs vice VD Cristiano Sampaio går att läsa att överklagan blev nekad på grund av att den inte var baserad på en feltolkning av reglerna, utan på ett domarbeslut från en utbildad och erfaren domare.
Nedan kan ni läsa redogörelsen (via MMAFighting):
In this case, CABMMA will not change a decision rendered at the end of any contest or exhibition unless (i) it determines that there was a collusion affecting the relevant result, (ii) the compilation of the scorecards of the judges discloses an error which shows that the decision was given to the wrong athlete, or (iii) as the result of an error interpreting a provision of our rules and regulations, the referee has rendered an incorrect decision.
The allegations contained in his appeal do not fall in (i) or (ii), and moreover are not within the scope of (iii) above, since the appeal is not based on a misinterpretation of the rules and, but rather on a judgment call of a trained and experienced referee based on Erick Silva’s TKO due to Mr. Yancy Medeiro’s legal strikes, confirmed by Mr. Eduardo Herdy. Important to point out that it was the knock down taken by Erick and a few landed punches right after the knock down, with no proper defense, which led the referee to interrupt the bout.
If we start reviewing what is considered early stoppages due to KO/TKO, the next big thing will be reviewing scores from judges. It will be a never ending discussion.
And therefore there were no precedents found of overturned results due to KO/TKO in any bout or event sanctioned by commissions members of the ABC, which CABMMA is also a member of.
Det var på UFC 212 i Rio de Janeiro som Silva skakades av Medeiros halvvägs in i matchen och domaren Eduardo Herdy gick in och avbröt. Baserat på Silvas snabba återhämtning efter stoppet kan man argumentera om att stoppet var för tidigt, men det är också viktigt att nämna att den 33årige Silva (19-8, 1 NC) tidigare blivit knockad tre gånger innan UFC 212.
