{"id":323445,"date":"2019-08-25T05:56:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T12:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=323445"},"modified":"2019-08-25T05:56:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T12:56:40","slug":"matt-mitrione-says-mouthpiece-was-not-cause-of-bellator-225-knockout-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/matt-mitrione-says-mouthpiece-was-not-cause-of-bellator-225-knockout-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Mitrione says mouthpiece was not cause of Bellator 225 knockout loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bellator heavyweight Matt Mitrione suffered a brutal second-round knockout loss to Sergei Kharitonov in the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/bellator-225-results-and-highlights\/\">main event of Saturday night&#8217;s Bellator 225 card<\/a>. But before the knockout happened, Mitrione was having trouble with his mouthpiece as it fell out of his mouth multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>The big blow came when Mitrione&#8217;s mouthpiece was knocked out by a Kharitonov punch early in the second round. He was clearly mentally shook by it and let his guard down, which allowed Kharitonov to land a vicious uppercut and then a knee which knocked Mitrione down. Kharitonov then finished Mitrione off with ground and pound before referee Dan Miragliotta stopped the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Bellator color commentator &#8220;Big&#8221; John McCarthy was critical of Mitrione having an ill-fitted mouthpiece, wondering how a professional mixed martial artist could have a mouthpiece that was knocked out of his mouth so easily. According to McCarthy, the ill-fitted mouthpiece took Mitrione&#8217;s mental attention away from the fight itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattmitrione\/status\/1165499094271479808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitrione has now taken to social media<\/a> and explained why the mouthpiece fell out of his mouth so easily. Here&#8217;s what &#8220;Meathead&#8221; said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Me losing was not because of my mouthpiece, it was because of my response to the situation. I always use the same one &amp; lost it Thursday before fight week. Had an impression done at a West Lafayette dentist. It was shipped to hotel. First time I ever wore it was tonight.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Mitrione (@mattmitrione) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattmitrione\/status\/1165499094271479808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Me losing was not because of my mouthpiece, it was because of my response to the situation. I always use the same one &amp; lost it Thursday before fight week. Had an impression done at a West Lafayette dentist. It was shipped to hotel. First time I ever wore it was tonight.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the loss, Mitrione drops to a 4-2, 1 NC record overall in Bellator. After opening up his Bellator MMA career with four straight wins, including a KO over Fedor Emelianenko, Mitrione is now winless in his last three fights.<\/p>\n<p>As for Kharitonov, he is now 3-1, 1 NC over the course of two stints in Bellator. The veteran heavyweight is 6-0, 2 NC over his last eight fights and could very well be next in line to fight winner of Ryan Bader vs. Cheick Kongo for the heavyweight title next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you think of Matt Mitrione&#8217;s situation with his mouthpiece?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bellator heavyweight Matt Mitrione suffered a brutal second-round knockout loss to Sergei Kharitonov in the main event of Saturday night&#8217;s Bellator 225 card. But before the knockout happened, Mitrione was having trouble with his mouthpiece as it fell out of his mouth multiple times. The big blow came when Mitrione&#8217;s mouthpiece was knocked out by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":275914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,10220],"tags":[],"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>Matt Mitrione says mouthpiece was not cause of Bellator 225 knockout loss | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bellator heavyweight Matt Mitrione is not blaming an ill-fitted mouthpiece for the reason why he was knocked out by Sergei Kharitonov at Bellator 225.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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