Matt Hamill: Jon Jones Didn’t Lose and I Didn’t Win
“I’d like to take a minute and thank everyone for their unbelievable support. The outpouring of concern has been overwhelming. I know it looked bad Saturday night but it looked a lot worse than it was. Aside from a few stitches in my nose and a sore shoulder I feel fine. I give all the credit to Jon Jones. He caught me by surprise with an awesome trip and I dislocated my shoulder when we hit the ground. I knew it was probably over at that point but I will die before I tap so I did the best I could under the circumstances. We train to wind up in bad positions and it paid off because I felt I was still able to defend even though I knew I couldn’t get up. Jon’s young and full of so much talent. Aside from making a mistake he did his job and he did it well. He definitely didn’t lose this fight and I definitely didn’t win, but I guess the rules are there for a reason. It is what it is. I went into this fight feeling like my record was actually 9-1 so with this so called win I will now consider my record 9-2.
I wish Jon all the best and I’d like to thank him for the professional and respectful way he has handled himself. I felt bad for him since a simple mistake caused him to loose a win bonus but as I know first hand, Dana, Lorenzo and the rest of the UFC take great care of their fighters. I’m sure Jon received a win bonus and more. As for me, you know I’ll be back. Fighting in the UFC is my job and I’ll be back to work very soon. I feel my performance before I was taken down was going well. I was able to get to him, land some solid strikes and get my hands on him. More importantly I was able to avoid all of his crazy strikes which is something we worked very hard on. I was in the best shape ever for this fight and I was completely prepared. It’s always a disappointment when things don’t go your way but I will take all the positives that I can from this. I’m just waiting on MRI results so we can rule out any further damage and I plan to be back in the gym right after the holidays.”
UFC light heavyweight Matt Hamill today posted on his official website his reaction to a disqualification win over Jon Jones at The Ultimate Fighter 10 Finale this past Saturday. After dislocating Hamill’s shoulder during the takedown, Jones teed off with ground and pound and appeared close to finishing the fight in the opening round when he landed several illegal 12-6 elbows that cost him a point and, when Hamill was unable to continue, the fight. While Jones is appealing the result, Hamill luckily avoided serious injury after the beatdown from one of the UFC’s top prospects.
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The more I see Matt Hamill in interviews and press clippings, the more impressed I am with both his attitude and his class. Great kid. He is the Anti-Tito.
The thing with his record now being “true” is a very interesting view. I agree with him 100%. Very interesting how everything evened itself out like that.
Top notch guy. Matt Hamill is very humble in defeat and has my full respect. And yes he was doing very well before that deadly awesome trip. My hat goes out to him. Props!
This is a 3rd example on my list in a last month that shows how the MMA fighters (and not only them) should behave.
1. Shane Carwin: “comments about Brock illnesses”
2. Jon Jones: “How he handled DQ decision”.
3. Matt Hamill : ” How he handled the last victory decision”
100% agreed. Pure class all around by all 3 guys.
And Tito after his loss to Forrest.
Sounds to me like Hamill got a win bonus for “losing” to Bisping a few years ago. Will comment more later…
I definitely have to give big credit to Hamill for handling this situation the way he has. I like Hamill, and want to pull for him as a fighter, he seems like a class act. I feel bad for him getting handled by Jones. Also knowing how good of a guy he seems to be, I feel kinda bad for pulling against him in this fight and against Franklin, but I just liked his opponents better, hopefully he’ll get someone I can really pull for him against next time out.
ya, it’s ironic that this was involving hammill. when he “lost” to the count, bisping ran his mouth like a goddamn moron. now that the shoes on the other foot, it only makes me respect hammill more. also makes me laugh at how bad hendo’s jaw prolly still feels after talkin stuff to hendo. he must be the happiest guy on earth knowing that hendo went to strikeforce.
U mean Bispings jaw not Hendos right?
Much respect for Hamill and Jones. There needs to be a rematch.
Both of these guys just ooze class.
Which is better than most other types of ooze! I tip my hat to both fighters, and hopefully it gets ruled a NC after Jones’ appeal is complete.
yeah maybe some of the other fighters in the UFC could learn from this