Regardless of profitable her UFC on ESPN battle towards Chelsea Chandler, Yana Santos continues to be fairly irritated along with her opponent for lacking weight by a whopping 5 kilos.
Chandler ( a former featherweight fighter) hit the scales on Friday morning at 141 kilos, 5 kilos above the 136 pound restrict for bantamweight scraps. That left Santos steaming — it’s not simply disrespectful to an opponent who really went by way of hell to make weight, it in all probability gave Chandler a severe dimension and cardio benefit as properly.
Santos used a powerful kick sport to maintain the heavier Chandler at bay for the primary two rounds of their battle. However in spherical three Chandler appeared to be the more energizing of the 2 (surprising, we all know!) and used her dimension to assault Santos within the clinch. It was too little too late, although: judges ended up scoring the primary two rounds for Santos, giving her a 30-27, 29-28, 29-28 unanimous choice.
“It pissed me off a lot,” she informed Michael Bisping after the win. “I didn’t wish to battle. Fortunately my crew and administration have been telling me, ‘No, you are able to do this.’ I simply really feel that it’s so unfair. For 2 months, I’m consuming tremendous clear, I’m an enormous woman and I’m doing my finest to all the time be on weight.”
“I really feel like this woman not attempt, she got here fats, she didn’t attempt to make weight. It’s inconceivable to overlook 5 kilos and never say something, not say, ‘Sorry, I really feel unhealthy,’ or one thing. Simply miss and go, so it made me very indignant.”
Chandler wasn’t the one fighter to overlook weight badly for this ESPN card. Chepe Mariscal got here in 3.5 kilos obese and ended up crushing his opponent with two 30-25 scorecards. The truth that he was so ashamed he “didn’t even wish to come to the world” might be small comfort for his opponent Damon Jackson, who could have gotten a proportion of Mariscal’s purse however loses his win pay.
