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UFC Issues Statement on Erick Silva Disqualification; Result Stands

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Erick Silva (Courtesy of UFC.com)

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by MMAWeekly.com Staff

Erick Silva wasted no time at UFC 142 Rio recently getting Carlo Prater to the mat and pounding him out in 29 seconds.

It appeared that Silva had run his streak to five consecutive victories.

It wasn’t to be, however, as referee Mario Yamasaki disqualified Silva, saying that he had warned him about repeated blows to the back of Prater’s head, and when the fight had to be stopped, it was due to illegal blows.

The crowd, not seeing what Yamasaki saw, booed the decision heavily.

Even UFC color commentator Joe Rogan felt that Yamasaki’s call was wrong and expressed that opinion in his post fight interview, questioning the referee.

“I was telling him, ‘don’t hit the back of the head,’” Yamasaki said following the disqualification. “I have to decide right then and there. There’s nothing else I can do.”

UFC officials felt strongly enough that Silva shouldn’t have been disqualified that they still paid him his win money.

Because the event was at an international location without a sanctioning body, UFC vice president of regulatory affairs, Marc Ratner, oversaw the event. He reviewed the stoppage and disqualification, issuing the following statement on Thursday:

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Tito Ortiz Talks “Mayhem” Miller & “Rampage” Jackson

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Team Punishment photo via Sherdog Forums

For newer fans of MMA it probably should come as no surprise that two of the most charismatic fighters in the game, Jason “Mayhem” Miller and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson used to run with “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Tito Ortiz as part of Team Punishment.  In this video I watched at CagePotato.com, Ortiz reminisces about Miller & Jackson’s early days and how he would give them advice on how to present themselves to the audience to become more memerable.


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For Mark Munoz, Lost Opportunity Tough to Swallow, But Title Hopes Unphased

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Mark Munoz photo via Sherdog.com / Photo by Dave Mandel

MMAFighting.com
By Mike Chiappetta, MMA Writer

For Mark Munoz, the goal remains the same. It’s just the timeline that needs to be altered.

On Thursday morning at 10 am PT, the UFC middleweight will go from surging contender to surgery center when he undergoes a procedure to remove floating bone chips in his right elbow. The surgery will be performed by Dr. Ronald Kvitne of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic, the same medical group that recently performed UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre‘s successful ACL repair.

Munoz aims to scale the same heights that St-Pierre has reached in his career, namely as king of his division. It is a goal that seemed in his sights as recently as one week ago, when he was preparing to face Chael Sonnen at UFC at January 28′s UFC on FOX 2 for the right to face middleweight champ Anderson Silva.

Munoz told MMA Fighting that during a training session last Friday, he was engaged in a wrestling scramble when his elbow slipped out and he felt two pops. He sparred four more rounds that night, but by the end of his workout, he couldn’t even pick up his gym bag.

By the next day, he’d flown to Las Vegas, had his arm examined, and received a cortisone shot in hopes of going through with the fight, but it was not to be. The injury had rendered his arm nearly useless, and Munoz’s hopes of becoming No. 1 contender were forced to give way to the reality that he would instead need surgery.

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