It's official: Magny submitted Matthews - not the other way around

[Unheralded Truth]

Jake Matthews, the Australian who was about a 4-1 favorite in the fight, had Neil Magny trapped in a mounted guillotine choke late in the first round.
Referee Jim Perdios had it look like he stopped the fight when Magny's right arm appeared to go limp with about three seconds left.

But when Magny immediately protested the stoppage, ref Perdios moved the fight on to Round 2 rather than saying it indeed was over based on
his action, having thought Magny was out. And just when it looked like Matthews might get the win anyway, doing good halfway into the third round,
he instead got caught in a Magny D'Arce choke and quickly tapped.

Matthews appealed the loss with the Western Australia Combat Commission, but Magny and his team posted on social media Monday that the appeal
has been denied and the Australian comission stating "In accordance with the Unified Rules of MMA, we can confirm the referee’s decision will remain
as final. Magny will remain the fight's winner."

Thoughts?

 

[EndlessCritic]

Magny never tapped, nor was he going to. He had escaped the main danger. It was a clear mistake by the ref, that he was able to correct in the moment.

The Frevola/Nelson one was way worse, but it appears that the ref legitimately thought the bell had rang.

Correct decision.

 

[pride_rules]

NC due to ref error feels most appropriate
will say
the moment the fuck up happened
I expected some super Magny esq shit to happen.

 

[NoStoneUnturned]

I'm disappointed they even appealed that. Not typical Aussie behavior.

 

[2004 account]

Hey sometimes ref screw ups and wrong decisions are blessings in disguise












For those betting lol

 

[Dr Fong]

Whatever some backwater state athletic commission in the ass-end of nowhere says on any issue in their jurisdiction is ultimately final.

But general commission laziness/incompetence/corruption should never be mistaken for referee vindication.

They very rarely overturn any decisions no matter the actual merit of the challenge.

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

Lots of fights have been stopped when the fighter in the submission never tapped or went out. They can appeal, and sometimes it goes to no contest, like it should. They don't flip the results entirely. You cannot say the referee "corrected his decision" because his decision was to interfere on the action, and you can't undo that. Should be a no contest

 

[jeff7b9]

What gets called in the cage is going to stand 99% or more.

They never overturn.

That's admitting a mistake and these are idiots in a position of some sort of trivial authority. Give a mouse a cookie and you are not going to get it back, they don't respond to reasoning.

Sometimes refs get it wrong.

It sucks but you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, it just doesn't work like that