Ankalaev won the second half of the fight with Blachowicz, says Kamil Gadzhiev

President of AMC Fight Nights Kamil Gadzhiev commented on the outcome of the fight for the vacant UFC light heavyweight title between Russian Magomed Ankalaev and Pole Jan Blachowicz.

The fight took place as part of the UFC 282 tournament in Las Vegas and lasted all five rounds. The judges did not give victory to any of the fighters. Initially, the main event of the evening was supposed to be a duel between UFC light heavyweight champion Jiří Prochazka and Brazilian Glover Teixeira, but the Czech suffered a shoulder injury and, out of respect for the athletes and the division, resigned the title. The belt is currently vacant.

– I urge you to remember that, firstly, we are Russians, we are still subconsciously for our own. Secondly, these judicial systems and criteria have not been entirely clear to us for a long time. Therefore, here it is necessary to ask the judges the question: how did they look? For example, the O’Malley-Yan fight. I was sure that Ian won. Then they raise O’Malley’s hand, and there is even some explanation for this. Therefore, here, too, I now do not want to argue from the point of view of the final score.

It seems to me that he is 3:2 in favor of Ankalaev. It seems to you that 4:1. I thought that Magomed won the second half of the fight. In my understanding, preference is always given to the one who won the second half of the fight. It has always been like this, but for this you need to be absolutely aware of all these judicial relationships. What are the rules declared in America now? They probably have some kind of conferences on these topics, or something else. We do not participate in them, so it is not for us to judge here. But if, from the point of view from which we spoke earlier, the UFC organization does not need such a champion as Ankalaev. As, perhaps, any other would not be needed, ”Metaratings.ru quotes Gadzhiev.