Brazilian commission rejects Silva's appeal of loss to Medeiros at UFC 212
Erick Silva's appeal of his TKO loss to Yancy Medeiros at UFC 212 in Rio de Janeiro has been denied by the Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission, MMA Fighting's Guilherme Cruz reports.
In a statement obtained by Cruz, CABMMA executive Cristiano Sampaio explained Silva's grievances did not fall under either of a trio of cases in which the commission would review a stoppage, and claimed the fighter was not intelligently defending himself at the time referee Eduardo Herdy brought a stop to the action:
In this case, CABMMA will not change a decision rendered at the end of any contest or exhibition unless (i) it determines that there was a collusion affecting the relevant result, (ii) the compilation of the scorecards of the judges discloses an error which shows that the decision was given to the wrong athlete, or (iii) as the result of an error interpreting a provision of our rules and regulations, the referee has rendered an incorrect decision.
The allegations contained in his appeal do not fall in (i) or (ii), and moreover are not within the scope of (iii) above, since the appeal is not based on a misinterpretation of the rules and, but rather on a judgement call of a trained and experienced referee based on Erick Silva's TKO due to Mr. Yancy Medeiro's legal strikes, confirmed by Mr. Eduardo Herdy. Important to point out that it was the knock down taken by Erick and a few landed punches right after the knock down, with no proper defense, which led the referee to interrupt the bout.
If we start reviewing what is considered early stoppages due to KO/TKO, the next big thing will be reviewing scores from judges. It will be a never ending discussion.
And therefore there were no precedents found of overturned results due to KO/TKO in any bout or event sanctioned by commissions members of the ABC, which CABMMA is also a member of.
The welterweight deemed the official's second-round stoppage premature and was hoping to get the result overturned to a no-contest before running it back with Medeiros.
After a closely contested round and change, Silva's fate was sealed when Medeiros dropped him and followed up with more punches. He protested the stoppage immediately after Herdy had seen enough.
The fan favorite has now lost three of his last four and been knocked out in all but one of his past handful of defeats.