Mike Mallott accused Kevin Holland of embellishment.
Mallott earned a giant unanimous choice victory over Holland at UFC Vancouver over the weekend, scoring his third straight victory contained in the Octagon and shifting his document to 6-1 beneath the UFC banner. Nonetheless, the victory got here with a touch of controversy after the Canadian hit his opponent below the belt twice in the course of the opening spherical.
The primary incident got here by way of an errant entrance kick that grazed Holland’s cup. The struggle resumed after just some moments, however issues got here to a halt 30 seconds later when Mallott threw a knee that appeared to catch Holland within the peninsula south of the equator.
Holland was finally in a position to proceed preventing, however not earlier than writhing in ache on the Octagon mat.
Discussing the incident throughout an look on The Ariel Helwani Show, Mallott accused Holland of milking the second low blow, claiming that he solely “brushed” Holland’s cup.
“I informed the ref my knee hit his hip. I feel what brushed his groin was my shin. My shin sort of brushed his cup, however the impression wasn’t to the cup. My knee hit his belt line. It was somewhat decrease than I meant it to. You return and watch it, I’m hitting him proper on the belt line. I’m not kneeing his cup. There may need been a brush from my shin as my knee landed, which could not have felt good.”
“I’ve been hit within the groin exhausting in follow, significantly more durable than that, and moved on with it, had full sparring classes. I feel there was embellishment in the course of the groin shot to attract a degree out and afterwards as somewhat excuse just like the struggle slipping away.”
Holland has since provided an replace on his situation, revealing that he was nonetheless affected by the consequences of the low blow two days later.
“Man fook what ya’ll speaking about bro kick a std into my d*ck my [nuts] damage,” Holland wrote following the struggle.
“My [nuts] nonetheless throbbing by no means thought I’d ask my mother to take me to get a ultrasound,” Holland added in a post on Monday.
