Yesterday at One On TNT 1, former UFC champion – Bellator Eddie Alvarez was suddenly tried to lose after foul on the neck with opponent IIRI Lapicus. Despite admitting his mistake, Eddie Alvarez said he was intending to complain to the referee Justin Brown. Alvarez said that the referee's judgment was too heavy and hoped that One would change the decision to lose.
“When I returned to my room and reviewed the recording of the match, I thought that the referee was too heavy,” Eddie Alvarez said at the post -One on TNT 1 press conference.
“With a great respect for the referee and the organizers, I will ask them to review the game video and see if it may change the decision to lose or not.”
At that time, Eddie Alvarez was occupying the upper hand, hooking the foot of the opponent's leg and trying to hit the Lapicus head. Lapicus covers his face to protect the face. Iri turned his head inside, causing the punches that Alvarez wanted to punch the ear and his face hit the nape of Lapicus.
Because Eddie Alvarez punched the neck 3 times, although referee Justin Brown reminded, Alvarez was received a red card and loser due to mistakes.
“I used my head to keep Iri's head, pushing the head of ISi in my punch,” Eddie Alvarez explained after the match. “I thought that just those punches hit the ears, it was still valid punches.”
“However, everything happened so fast … I could not control my attack in that short moment.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKPXOFRK-MW
With the same error, UFC also applies the form of warning and subtracting, but will only make a mistake that the foul is lost when the victim has really been knocked down or has a serious injury in the neck – neck. So, it can be said that if this was a match at UFC, Perhaps Eddie Alvarez would not be so bad for losing due to the wrong law. At most, the match can only be canceled the result.
Typically, with an unhappy outcome, it is likely that ONE Championship will find a way to continue to let Eddie Alvarez remain with Ivi Lapicus in the future.