{"id":387953,"date":"2021-06-15T07:06:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=387953"},"modified":"2021-06-15T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:06:20","slug":"paul-craig-issues-apology-to-all-the-bettors-who-had-him-winning-by-submission-at-ufc-263","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paul-craig-issues-apology-to-all-the-bettors-who-had-him-winning-by-submission-at-ufc-263\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Craig issues apology to all the bettors who had him winning by submission at UFC 263"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC light heavyweight contender Paul Craig issued an apology to all the bettors who had him winning by submission at UFC 263.<\/p>\n<p>Craig pulled guard on his opponent Jamahal Hill early in the first round of his UFC 263 main card fight. It wasn&#8217;t long until Craig was able to snatch Hill&#8217;s arm and twist it so hard that he dislocated it, but referee Al Guinee didn&#8217;t notice the injury and let the fight continue despite Hill making an attempt to tap. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paul-craig-receives-bjj-black-belt-following-spectacular-finish-over-jamahal-hill-at-ufc-263\/?fbclid=IwAR1-OwmyHY0bDXf6__d9rGXF7_a4b9CeuxA5jkiqUpHrh2zDJC5lMamu5oE\">The fight continued with Craig holding Hill in a triangle until the referee finally stopped the fight due to TKO via punches from the guard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media following UFC 263, Craig wanted to issue an apology to anyone who bet on him to win the fight by submission. Although the fight should have been stopped as soon as Hill&#8217;s arm popped and a technical submission should have been called, because the referee let it continue, the fight was ruled a technical knockout, which means that anyone who bet on Craig by submission lost their money. Check out what &#8220;The Bearjew&#8221; said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had said his jiu-jitsu was up to the standard I\u2019m in. Maybe it is, but in these positions, that\u2019s where I\u2019m very, very good. I\u2019m very dangerous in them. We\u2019ve seen them in my submission game. I\u2019m only disappointed in the people that have put on a submission bet and are not going to get that one in (because it was a TKO). Apologies, guys,&#8221; Craig said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/lists\/paul-craig-apologizes-to-bettors-submission-tko-ufc-263-video-jamahal-hill-injury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Craig was the No. 14 ranked light heavyweight heading into the fight with Hill, who was ranked No. 15, so he figures to get someone ranked in the top-10 for his next fight.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think is next for Paul Craig after beating Jamahal Hill at UFC 263 via TKO?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC light heavyweight contender Paul Craig issued an apology to all the bettors who had him winning by submission at UFC 263. Craig pulled guard on his opponent Jamahal Hill early in the first round of his UFC 263 main card fight. It wasn&#8217;t long until Craig was able to snatch Hill&#8217;s arm and twist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":272693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39479,39610],"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>Paul Craig issues apology to all the bettors who had him winning by submission at UFC 263 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC light heavyweight contender Paul Craig issued an apology to all the bettors who had him winning by submission at UFC 263.\" \/>\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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