Quote of the Day: Anthony Johnson To Appeal TKO Loss To Kevin Burns
“I’m going to appeal it and my agent, Ken Pavia, is going to appeal it and Dana thought it was bullshit whether it was unintentional or not. I don’t think the UFC wants fights to end that way.
As soon as the fight was over with, the UFC doctor and everyone was begging me to go to doctor. They checked me out and wanted to make sure I was okay so I followed up with a visit.
I was pretty disappointed in the TKO call. Burns was a test and they put a decent grappler against a decent striker and I think I held my own because he never came close to pulling off a submission on me. Everyone knows what type of person I am and this won’t set me back.
Right now, we just want to get this whole situation taken care of in the right way, but I would love a rematch.”
Anthony Johnson tells FightHype.com that he plans to appeal his TKO loss to Kevin Burns at UFC Fight Night 14 on July 19th. The main card fight was stopped in the third round after Burns accidentally poked Johnson in the eye and Johnson fell to the ground in pain. The fight was waved off and ruled a TKO, however, as the referee failed to see the eye poke and instead thought Johnson was knocked to the ground with what replays showed was a missed uppercut.
Though nothing is set yet, it is likely that Johnson and Burns will again meet in the octagon in the near future.
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what happens on an appeal do they just erase the bout or what???? anyone know
Joel,
I’m not sure in MMA but at a local boxing event I attended, the fighters fell through the ropes and one hurt his elbow by twisting it. I saw up close and it was nasty….popped and jiggled. Since he could not continue, he was given a loss and not allowed to continue the tournament(likely due to injury). In any case, his trainer later appealed to have it switched to a draw/no contest. In this case the decision was not overturned but only to the trainers insane dismay. A partner boxing gym had an almost identicle incident at the same tournament to advance to Colorado for the Olympic trials. This “other” gym managed to change the decision. It’s really f-d up that things like this are case to case scenrio. I like Johnson’s attitude and hope he has a great career. He definitely has a fire inside.
it was definite bs. i thought they would call it a no contest for sure. hopefully they overturn it cuz i don’t think either fighter was really too happy with the outcome.
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That was a BS call , it sould be a no contest and they should fight again
it wouldnt have been so unforgiving if Burns hadnt been throwing is fingers out there every time. KO, you from Colorado? Hopefully Johnson makes good on his promise to bring the belt back to Denver!
Zac,
No…I’m from San Bruno where the San Francisco Airport is really located…My brother in law fought at the olympic village in Colorado for the boxing trials to be on the olympic team. It’s nice but not home. I just hope Johnson has a good career. He has gotten off to a rough start but he still has that fierce fighter energy about him.
To burns’ credit, he did say that that hand had been broken a couple times previous. Instead of throwing closed fist punches, he was throwing palm punches. Palm punches hurt a lot more, but when you’re throwing them, the odds of a finger poke are so much more likely…
Personally, i’m not a fan of palm punches. I’m all about flying knees to the face. Bj Penn over Sherk, Alves over hughes, and Arlovski over rothwell. All matches had flying knees and all matches were entertaining. MORE FLYING KNEES!
good because he was dominating burns and the gay eye poke destroyed the whole fight!
Anthony Johnson is a class act and the NSAC would go along way to earning back some respect by at least making it a No Contest.
Anthony is a really nice guy because if that happend to me I couldn’t have acted the way he did after the fight.
I Hope they rule it a No Contest as well.
yea i think no contest is the only real fair decision wit out a point being taken away and it not being blatantly intentional idk if they should dq burns i kno he was warned a bunch of times but still if y have the take a point away thing if u just skip to dqing him that said leavin it as a tko victory for burns is the worst of all possible decisions for this fight
Should definately be ruled a no contest. But why throw yourself halfway across the octagon after a finger to the eye??? Scott Smith got a viscious finger to the eye and didnt react like that. If Johnson woulda reacted like Smith, he would have gotten time to recover as well. But instead threw himself across the cage as if Fedor caught him with an uppercut. Love the acting there…
in aggreance, no contest should go his way indefenitely, the raf didnt make a bad call he made a call on what he saw and the ufc is so fast paced they dont have time to mess around they call it and thats it. but thats why you have the option to appeal and this is an example of why they made it. good for anthony to be mature and no insult his oppenent or complain hes doing it the right way probably not making a huge deal to media either.