{"id":318557,"date":"2019-07-07T06:04:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T13:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=318557"},"modified":"2019-07-07T06:04:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T13:04:54","slug":"thiago-santos-issues-statement-following-controversial-loss-to-jon-jones-at-ufc-239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/thiago-santos-issues-statement-following-controversial-loss-to-jon-jones-at-ufc-239\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiago Santos issues statement following controversial loss to Jon Jones at UFC 239"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thiago Santos has released a statement following his controversial split decision loss to Jon Jones in the main event of UFC 239.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tmarretamma\/status\/1147754640265502720?s=21\">Here&#8217;s what Santos had to say<\/a> to the fans on his social media:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No complaints and no dwelling on the past, I left it all in the octagon and did everything I could in the condition that I was in. All glory to god and thank you all very much!. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alexdavismma?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Alexdavismma<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BFKNYOaz15\">pic.twitter.com\/BFKNYOaz15<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Thiago Marreta (@TMarretaMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMarretaMMA\/status\/1147754640265502720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No complaints and no dwelling on the past, I left it all in the octagon and did everything I could in the condition that I was in. All glory to god and thank you all very much!&#8221; &#8211; Santos wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Many observers of the fight felt the bricked-up Brazilian light heavyweight should have won the decision on the judges&#8217; scorecards, but Jones ended up getting the nod and keeping his belt. Two judges scored the fight 48-47 for Jones, while the other judge had it 48-47 for Santos, giving the champ the split decision nod and keeping his belt in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing the fight on the judges&#8217; scorecards, Santos gained plenty of fans for his gritty performance on Saturday night, as he battled through an apparent lower-limb injury to push Jones to the brink of defeat. Despite officially losing the fight, there&#8217;s a good argument to be made that Santos&#8217; stock actually rose despite the loss.<\/p>\n<p>However, even though many fans and even some media members scored the fight for Santos, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-reacts-to-controversial-jon-jones-vs-thiago-santos-fight-at-ufc-239\/\">UFC president Dana White was not one of them<\/a>. White said that Jones clearly won the fight and that he has no interest in booking a rematch against Santos, despite plenty of support for a potential do-over from fans on social media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think that Thiago Santos deserves a rematch against Jon Jones?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thiago Santos has released a statement following his controversial split decision loss to Jon Jones in the main event of UFC 239. Here&#8217;s what Santos had to say to the fans on his social media: No complaints and no dwelling on the past, I left it all in the octagon and did everything I could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":318562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[36672,39610],"tags":[483,5665,50023],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thiago Santos issues statement following controversial loss to Jon Jones at UFC 239 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thiago Santos has released a statement following his controversial split decision loss to Jon Jones in the main event of UFC 239.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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