Vanessa Demopoulos to attraction loss to Jaqueline Amorim

Vanessa Demopoulos will attraction her UFC Combat Night time 242 on the premise of a missed foul, based on her illustration.

At Saturday’s occasion on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Demopoulos (11-6 MMA, 5-3 UFC) was submitted by a Jaqueline Amorim (9-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) armbar. In the course of the set-up sequence, Demopolous might be heard on the published telling referee Chris Tognoni that Amorim was grabbing the within of her glove – one thing she reiterated to the official after she tapped.

A replay appeared to point out Amorim’s fingers within the neighborhood of the glove opening. Fee officers huddled round a monitor earlier than and after the official studying of the choice.

The consequence presently has Amorim because the victor, however Demopoulos will attraction the choice to the Nevada Athletic Fee (NAC).

“We’re within the strategy of interesting the results of Vanessa Demopoulos’ contest with Jaqueline Amorim on Saturday at UFC Vegas 97,” Iridium Sports activities Company affiliate agent Lance Spaude mentioned in a written assertion Monday to MMA Junkie. “The published clearly exhibits Jaqueline illegally grabbing and manipulating Vanessa’s gloves, which prevented Vanessa from delivering to Jaqueline and immediately enabled Jaqueline to transition to the armbar which ended the match.”

In keeping with the Unifed Guidelines of Blended Martial Arts, glove-grabbing is illegitimate.

“A fighter might not management their opponent’s motion by holding onto their opponent’s shorts or gloves,” the Unified Guidelines state. “A fighter might maintain onto or seize their opponent’s hand so long as they don’t seem to be controlling the hand solely through the use of the fabric of the glove, however by really gripping the hand of the opponent. It’s authorized to carry onto your individual gloves or shorts.”

Amorim denied any wrongdoing when she spoke with MMA Junkie throughout her post-fight information convention minutes after the end.

“She was saying that I used to be holding the gloves or one thing and she or he was in the midst of the transition, however I wasn’t,” Amorim mentioned. “They are saying preserve going – don’t cease. There’s no holding, and I saved going to strive the submission. We didn’t trade any phrases. I knew she was having her second (to protest), and that’s positive.

“I used to be holding over the the gloves, collectively. My nook mentioned they checked out (the replay), and I wasn’t. I heard the fee was looking and so they mentioned it was positive and nothing was holding. So for me, it’s positive. I’ve a transparent conscience. I did the precise factor.”

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