Regardless of mounting criticizm following his UFC 309 loss, Michael Chandler has denied claims he hit Charles Oliveira with quite a few unlawful rabbit punches throughout a fifth spherical scamble of their co-headliner at Madison Sq. Backyard.
Chandler, who retains the quantity seven rank on the light-weight restrict, co-headlined UFC 309 earlier this month in New York, taking up former undisputed champion and two-time foe, Oliveira over the course of 5 rounds in a high-stakes title eliminator rematch.
And dropping an eventual unanimous resolution (49-46, 49-46, 49-45) loss to the Sao Paulo veteran, Chandler drew criticizm from pundits and followers alike — after showing to land quite a few punches to the again of his opponent’s head — to which he has vehemently denied.
Michael Chandler defends in opposition to critics of efficiency in opposition to Charles Oliveira
“I’m not very pleased about it, however that’s all a part of it… I’m not going to say I didn’t do something incorrect, okay?” Michael Chandler advised Ariel Helwani for Uncrowned. “I’m not going to say that individuals couldn’t take a look at it and splice it and take a look at it below a effective tooth comb and a magnifying glass.
“However the unified guidelines of blended martial arts say that there’s a line drawn from the crown of the pinnacle right down to the again of the pinnacle, one-inch variance on both aspect,” Michael Chandler defined. 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. If you happen to watch 90 per cent of the pictures, a minimum of, most of them, virtually all of them, my fist was catching the ear. If you happen to’re catching the ear, that’s not the again of the pinnacle. Really, what you and I’d name the again of the pinnacle is just not the precise definition of what it’s.
And joking following the pairing how he technically tapped out to the Brazilian within the last levels of the rematch in an embrace — just for referee, Keith Peterson to let it go unnoticed, Chandler claimed he obtained no warning from the official for his strikes to Oliveira — regardless of the scrutiny surrounding them.
“A referee who was inside two toes away by no means stated one factor about it. Then you definately’ve bought commentators who had been 35-feet away saying it’s the again of the pinnacle and also you’ve bought different individuals saying it was again of the pinnacle.”
