{"id":395138,"date":"2022-12-11T00:20:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T05:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395138"},"modified":"2022-12-11T07:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T12:33:58","slug":"controversial-judging-as-light-heavyweight-title-still-vacant","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/controversial-judging-as-light-heavyweight-title-still-vacant\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial judging as light heavyweight title still vacant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversy reigned in the T-Mobile Arena as two controversial judging calls brought an anticlimactic end to an otherwise spectacular night at UFC 282 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Blachowicz and Magomed Ankalaev fought to a split draw, with the judges scoring the fight 48-47 Blachowicz, 48-46 Ankalaev and 47-47. Sal D\u2019Amato was the judge who scored it a draw.<\/p>\n<p>Blachowicz told Joe Rogan that he thought Ankalaev won. An upset Ankalaev was ready to walk out of the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m going to fight for this organization again because, honestly, I don&#8217;t know what just happened,&#8221; Ankalaev said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Takes a hell of a man to lay it out like that. \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Absolute class as always from \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JanBlachowicz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JanBlachowicz<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC282?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UFC282<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d06fnfG8EP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/d06fnfG8EP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC Europe (@UFCEurope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCEurope\/status\/1601824421961932800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both fighters&#8217; efforts went for naught due to the judges&#8217; scorecards.<\/p>\n<p>The title initially was vacant because Jiri Prochazka suffered an injury training for a rematch against former champion Glover Teixeira. It is unknown if Blachowicz and Ankalaev will run it back.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC282?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UFC282<\/a> main event ends in a split draw. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ym9PvdFgDs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ym9PvdFgDs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1601821561413140481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversy reigned in the T-Mobile Arena as two controversial judging calls brought an anticlimactic end to an otherwise spectacular night at UFC 282 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395139,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Jan Blachowicz vs Magomed Ankalaev ends in a split draw","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395138"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395138"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}