UFC White House: Alex Pereira accuses Girl Gain of illegal strikes

Alex Pereira says Cyril Gann landed several “illegal shots” that contributed to his loss at the UFC’s White House event.

French gene Stopped Pereira Sunday in the second round of an interim heavyweight title fight to end the Brazilian’s bid to become the UFC’s first three-division champion.

After taking Pereira down with jabs, Gane threw several elbows and punches down as Pereira tried to get back to his feet, landing some to the back of the head.

After a while referee Herb Dean stopped the fight.

“I was getting up. It was hard to recover,” Pereira said on his YouTube channel.

“I believe I would probably have recovered if not for those shots. Maybe not, but they were too hard and illegal.

“This guy is desperate. He threw a punch that he couldn’t believe, then he wanted to finish the fight no matter what.”

In a video on Instagram, Pereira posted a photo of the back of his head, which showed swelling and bruising.

The former middleweight and light-heavyweight champion said he spoke to Dean the day before the fight in Washington DC to express his concerns about Gann’s striking.

“What upsets me is that I warned him earlier but the guy doesn’t have the guts,” Perera said.

“I said ‘look, punches in the eye, punches in the groin, these things can happen, but this guy has a long history of it – dirty shots, throwing punches to the back of the head, elbows’,” so I was worried.

in response, Dean defended his duties., outsider He said that hitting the nape of the neck is illegal, as is hitting the column two inches behind the head, but hitting the side of it is permissible.

“The rule we’re talking about is the back of the head, which is confusing,” Dean said.

“It’s different in boxing, and the way we apply this rule is we focus on the nape of the neck, which is really what the rule should say.”

Britain’s Tom Aspinall, whose heavyweight title fight was billed with Gann in October No competition After Gann poked him in the eye multiple times, “it seemed like there was a lot of illegal elbowing going on”.

Aspinal Called Gana “impostor”. Their fight followed, which required surgery on both eyes, but the Frenchman said: “I respect the rules.”