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Last night, in the main event of the UFC’s anticipated return to Glasgow, Scotland, Santiago Ponzinibbio scored an upset, knockout win<\/a> over the highly regard Gunnar Nelson in just 82 seconds. Unfortunately, Ponzinibbio’s win was not without controversy, as he appeared to badly eye-poke Nelson just moments before the fight-ending blows were landed.<\/p>\n

Nelson gave his take on the alleged eye-poke at the event’s post-fight press conference:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t like to make excuses, but this is the truth, how I feel anyway, is I should have stopped the fight when I got poked,\u201d Nelson said (h\/t MMAFighting.com<\/a>). \u201cI should have stopped it then because I\u2019m seeing two Ponzinibbios in front of me. And that was like that until I remember standing up and the fight was over.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI should have stopped it then and I\u2019m not saying, like, he did a good job and maybe it would have happened anyway,\u201d he continued. \u201cMaybe my reflexes just wouldn\u2019t have been enough to move away from the punch, but this is how I felt, like, I\u2019m kind of kicking myself in the head for not just stopping the fight and being greedy, because I caught him and I thought he was on the run.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cI should have just stopped the fight, recovered my eye, and carried on from there,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t, and here we are now. You win or you learn, and I\u2019ll definitely learn from this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0According to the victorious Santiago Ponzinibbio, who spoke to MMAFighting.com<\/a> post-fight, Nelson’s complaints in this regard are pretty much unwarranted.<\/div>\n
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“I went there to knock him out and thank God it went as expected, I won by knockout,\u201d Ponzinibbio said. “If (the eye poke) happened, of course it wasn\u2019t intentional, but I watched the video again and didn\u2019t see it. I don\u2019t know. But it was a knockout with the right hand that I landed on him. The right hand hurt him and I finished with a precise jab.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t take anything away from the win,\u201d he continued. “What he says doesn\u2019t change anything. There\u2019s a referee inside the Octagon looking at it, and he can stop the fight any time he wants. The No. 8 in the world lasted 82 seconds. He\u2019s 28, he\u2019s versatile, a great athlete, one of the best in the division, has a bright future in the UFC, will be at the top, but it was an excellent win. (He) lasted 82 seconds.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I was well trained, the distance, connected heavy hands. I don\u2019t think it takes anything away from the win. He can say whatever he wants. A beautiful knockout for my career, another one in the first round. It\u2019s my fourth first-round knockout (in the UFC). I\u2019m happy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Do you feel that Santiago Ponzinibbio’s win was due in part to an accidental eye-poke? Join the conversation in the comments section!<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 7\/17\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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