Arman Tsarukyan says the one decide who scored his battle at UFC 300 in opposition to him admitted he was mistaken.
Tsarukyan (22-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) defeated former champion Charles Oliveira (34-10 MMA, 22-10 UFC) by break up choice on Saturday’s fundamental card at T-Cell Area in Las Vegas. He was puzzled by the end result.
Each decide Adalaide Byrd and Ron McCarthy gave Tsarukyan Rounds 2 and three, however it was decide Mike Bell who scored Rounds 1 and three for Oliveira, which resulted in a break up choice. Tsarukyan mentioned that Bell acknowledged he made a mistake by awarding Oliveira the ultimate body.
“Yesterday with (Ariel) Helwani, I talked to referee (decide), he did the error on the third spherical as a result of he gave to Oliveira,” Tsarukyan mentioned in an interview with Daniel Cormier. “My coach talked to him. He referred to as my coach and mentioned ‘Sorry, yeah, you had been proper. I wasn’t give to Oliveira.’ So, he mentioned apologize too for that.”
Tsarukyan, who turned down a short-notice alternative to problem UFC light-weight champion Islam Makhachev, mentioned a loss would have been devastating for him.
“If I lose this battle, I might kill him, yeah,” Tsarukyan mentioned. “He’s going to kill my profession, you recognize? I’ve been coaching like 10 years continuous, you recognize? And like, on a regular basis, like, take into consideration the battle, lower weight, practice, like quite a lot of surgical procedures, trauma, drama.
“I don’t know, all issues collectively, and, like, some decide, like possibly he was watching his telephone. However like, now we’re good. Thanks for that. He mentioned, ‘I understood I used to be mistaken for that.’”
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