Gegard Mousasi tog sig under helgens UFC 210 an och besegrade Chris Weidman via TKO, men beslutet att stoppa matchen var inte helt utan kontroverser. Weidman försökte nämligen att göra sig själv till en liggande fighter genom att trycka ner båda händerna i mattan, men misslyckades och fick istället två tillåtna knän i huvudet.
Mousasi hävdade direkt efter matchen att Chris enbart försökte hitta en väg ut ur oktogonen, och detta hade han att säga via presskonferensen efter galan:
At the end of the day, I’m fighting. I have a lot of respect for Weidman. I don’t want to badmouth him. But if you want to play smart and take advantage of the rules, that’s not my fault. I’m fighting. If you want to put your hands down so I cannot knee you — you’re fighting, don’t try to take advantage of the rules. I’m fighting, and at the end of the day, it was legal. That’s what everyone says now, it was legal.
I don’t make the rules. It was legal and I felt he didn’t want to continue. I think everyone saw that. He didn’t want to continue. How is that my fault? I don’t give a f*ck, I won. I like the guy, he’s a tough opponent, but at the end of the day, he didn’t want to fight. I felt he was getting tired.
He was fatiguing. So I feel like he was trying to find a way out, and he felt maybe with a disqualification, he could do that.
