Mike Mallott accused Kevin Holland of embellishment.
Mallott earned an enormous unanimous resolution victory over Holland at UFC Vancouver over the weekend, scoring his third straight victory contained in the Octagon and shifting his report to 6-1 below the UFC banner. Nonetheless, the victory got here with a touch of controversy after the Canadian hit his opponent beneath the belt twice throughout the opening spherical.
The primary incident got here by way of an errant entrance kick that grazed Holland’s cup. The battle resumed after only a few 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 capable of proceed combating, however not earlier than writhing in ache on the Octagon mat.
Discussing the incident throughout an look on The Ariel Helwani Present, 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 believe what brushed his groin was my shin. My shin sort of brushed his cup, however the influence wasn’t to the cup. My knee hit his belt line. It was a bit 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 might need been a brush from my shin as my knee landed, which could not have felt good.”
“I’ve been hit within the groin arduous in observe, significantly tougher than that, and moved on with it, had full sparring periods. I believe there was embellishment throughout the groin shot to attract a degree out and afterwards as a bit excuse just like the battle 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] harm,” Holland wrote following the battle.
“My [nuts] nonetheless throbbing by no means thought I’d ask my mother to take me to get a ultrasound,” Holland added in a submit on Monday.
