Regardless of profitable her UFC on ESPN struggle in opposition to Chelsea Chandler, Yana Santos remains to be fairly irritated along with her opponent for lacking weight by a whopping 5 kilos.
Chandler ( a former featherweight fighter) hit the scales on Friday morning at 141 kilos, 5 kilos above the 136 pound restrict for bantamweight scraps. That left Santos steaming — it’s not simply disrespectful to an opponent who truly went by hell to make weight, it in all probability gave Chandler a severe dimension and cardio benefit as properly.
Santos used a powerful kick sport to maintain the heavier Chandler at bay for the primary two rounds of their struggle. However in spherical three Chandler appeared to be the brisker of the 2 (stunning, we all know!) and used her dimension to assault Santos within the clinch. It was too little too late, although: judges ended up scoring the primary two rounds for Santos, giving her a 30-27, 29-28, 29-28 unanimous choice.
“It pissed me off a lot,” she informed Michael Bisping after the win. “I didn’t need to struggle. Fortunately my crew and administration had been telling me, ‘No, you are able to do this.’ I simply really feel that it’s so unfair. For 2 months, I’m consuming tremendous clear, I’m a giant lady and I’m doing my greatest to at all times be on weight.”
“I really feel like this lady not strive, she got here fats, she didn’t attempt to make weight. It’s inconceivable to overlook 5 kilos and never say something, not say, ‘Sorry, I really feel dangerous,’ or one thing. Simply miss and go, so it made me very offended.”
Chandler wasn’t the one fighter to overlook weight badly for this ESPN card. Chepe Mariscal got here in 3.5 kilos obese and ended up crushing his opponent with two 30-25 scorecards. The truth that he was so ashamed he “didn’t even need to come to the sector” might be small comfort for his opponent Damon Jackson, who could have gotten a proportion of Mariscal’s purse however loses his win pay.
