Abdul Razak Alhassan remains to be fuming within the aftermath of his no contest with Cody Brundage at UFC on ESPN 59, and he needs to run it again.
After Alhassan (12-6 MMA, 6-6 UFC) rocked Brundage (10-6 MMA, 4-5 UFC) early within the first spherical of their middleweight bout on Saturday at Ball Enviornment in Denver, he adopted up with an onslaught of strikes, two of which had been deemed as unlawful and to the again of the top by referee Dan Miragliotta.
Brundage was unable to proceed after his five-minute restoration interval, and the struggle was dominated a no contest. That got here a lot to the dismay of Alhassan, who insists there was no a couple of unlawful shot within the sequence, and mentioned Brundage turned his head into it whereas fishing for a desperation takedown.
“I’m nonetheless pissed off about it,” Alhassan instructed John Morgan of Grind Metropolis Media. “After all in that sort of scenario the place he’s turning and I’m making an attempt to get my photographs in – and even after I watched the video, it was just one time. And even that one was questionable when it hit him. I really feel that man, sorry for my curse, he simply turned a p*ssy. He determined, ‘I don’t need to struggle any extra. I don’t need to do it.’”
Alhassan, 38, claims that he noticed one in every of Brundage’s coaches from Elevation Combat Crew urge him to decide on to not proceed through the restoration window, however not determine who. He in the end thinks Brundage was making an attempt to work himself right into a disqualification win, citing what occurred in his September bout with Jacob Malkoun at UFC Combat Night time 228.
In accordance with Alhassan, he’s considering submitting an enchantment with the Colorado fee to have the no contest overturned to a win, however has not made any last choices.
Greater than something, Alhassan simply needs to struggle, and he’ll take any opponent on any date. He defined pre-fight that he has a lot rage to get out of his system after private points, and if he can get a rematch with Brundage, he has no scarcity of motivation.
“I actually need to contest this so dangerous (with the fee), however even when I don’t contest it, I would like him again immediately,” Alhassan mentioned. “Let’s run it again and put a f*cking gap in his face.”
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