Alexander Volkov thought he did sufficient to beat Ciryl Gane this time.
Three years after their first assembly, a unanimous choice win for Gane, he and Volkov once more went to the scorecards Saturday at UFC 310 with Gane once more popping out on prime. Their rematch resulted in a narrower margin, as Gane walked out with a break up choice in his favor.
On the night’s post-fight presser, Volkov instantly addressed his points with the scoring.
“It was a bullshit choice, for positive,” Volkov stated. “I don’t know what we’re going to do with the choice, I’m completely positive that I received the combat. I did way more than Gane in all of the combat. I have no idea who scored this combat with him, who’re the judges, how they determine this… I don’t see any harm from him to me and I don’t perceive why he received the combat.”
Along with the hanging anticipated of the 2 heavyweight sluggers, the bout featured loads of grappling as effectively. Gane confirmed a brand new give attention to battling Volkov on the bottom, attacking with submissions, whereas Volkov centered on working to achieve prime place.
No matter Gane was doing was apparently sufficient to persuade two of the judges, Adalaide Byrd and Junichiro Kamiko, to attain the primary two rounds for Gane. It was a improvement that shocked Volkov, and he thinks Gane’s staff had been simply as stunned.
“I noticed the eyes of his staff, and so they didn’t anticipate this,” Volkov stated. “They didn’t anticipate the choice, and he was upset, so my respect to Ciryl Gane. He wasn’t like a man who simply walked out from the cage after the choice, as a result of he didn’t really feel this, too. Nothing unhealthy to my opponent, I simply don’t settle for with the fee. I can’t agree with this.”
When knowledgeable that Byrd was one of many judges concerned within the broadly panned choice that noticed Canelo Alvarez escape with a break up draw towards Gennady Golovkin in September 2017, Volkov was much more confused by how the scoring performed out.
“The identical decide who judged boxing and MMA and completely doesn’t perceive—I don’t know the way it’s potential,” Volkov stated. “That is the preventing capital of the world, the UFC for positive, and I don’t wish to say about all of the fee, for positive I do know it really works with good, skilled guys, however the way it’s potential the identical particular person can decide two completely different sorts of sports activities, and she or he have completely unhealthy choice in a single.”
“I don’t perceive how an individual that’s not professionally realized on this sport can both not be re-qualified to evaluate this sport or simply not f*cking fired,” Volkov added with help from a Russian translator.
Volkov was requested if he would attraction and he stated his staff will put within the paperwork, although he doesn’t imagine it is going to change the end result because it’s terribly uncommon that commissions overturn selections barring clear proof of impropriety.
At the very least Volkov is aware of the UFC has his again as he spoke to UFC CEO Dana White instantly after the rating was learn. In line with Volkov, White agreed that Volkov obtained a uncooked deal, and used his sometimes colourful language to indicate his supoprt.
“He stated—sorry for my English—I used to be ‘fucked up with the judges,’ form of this,” Volkov stated. “I appreciated to the bosses of UFC, they noticed the whole lot together with his personal eyes and so they have an identical opinion, however they’ll’t affect the fee.
“It’s form of the weak level in all of MMA sport, perhaps in boxing, too, as a result of generally we’re watching the boxing, too, and see some bullshit choice, however in MMA with simply three rounds—You already know, we did so many within the camp and health club to advertise the combat, the whole lot, I’m feeling this simply after the girl who simply I don’t know if she’s engaged on her expertise, on her personal expertise to evaluate the fights or she simply generally comes to look at the fights as a result of she likes it. And provides the victory wherever she likes, perhaps she extra just like the physique of Ciryl Gane. I don’t know why.”
