Chael Sonnen�s Camp is Appealing the Outcome of the Anderson Silva Fight

[led]

LOL he wants a third match.

it was reported that Chael Sonnen�s camp filed an appeal with the Nevada Athletic Commission to overturn the result of the his bout against Anderson Silva at UFC 148 to a no-contest. As first reported by Jonathan Snowden on The MMA Show:

�Scott McQuarry, the head coach of Chael Sonnen, says they�ve started the process to file an appeal with Keith Kizer and the Nevada Athletic Commission. They believe the knee Anderson Silva threw was illegal, that the intent was to knee the face, that it did it in fact strike Chael in the face, that he got eight stitches and that he bit his tongue. They also say Anderson grabbed the cage at the point of impact. They are intending to appeal and have the fight ruled a no contest.?br />
Before we get back to Illegal-Kneegate, it already appears that after talking to NSAC officials, Sonnen�s coaches have already scrapped the initial plan. Instead, it looks like Sonnen will just stick with appealing to both the fans and Dana White for a third match against �The Spider.?Considering that NSAC Head Keith Kizer had no idea what the legal basis of an appeal would be, that�s probably for the best.

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[Panginoon]

Looool.

Silva's already proven twice that he's simply the superior fighter. I don't know if it was illegal or not but cmon now.. move on

[hayZ]

...then we'll have to wait another year for Silva to get his ass back in the cage. I'm sure if they told Chael to fight in 3-4 months he'd fight but Silva is like Mayweather now in that regard and he's earnt the right but people want to see him fight regularly.

Silva would beat him up again.

[BKM-2010]

LMAO! the final nail in the coffin for this prick's dignity. This is so pathetic anybody should lose whatever respect they had left for him and his camp. Sonnen got tooled, period. He will never be in Silva's level and he will never get another rematch.

[jaded]

Silva was holding the cage when he kneed Sonnen

[F l i c k e r]

lol hardly holding the cage.

sonnen officially lost my respect with this. *** him.

[Jadon]

The Knee was not the KO. The ground and pound was...

Fighters hold the cage sometimes and get told about it and carry on, so the holding made no difference, he would have been told not to hold it.

The knee hit the body, and IMO the punch that wobbled Chael, or the fact that he hit the cage may have made his tongue cut.

[Xyei]

I was wondering about that knee when I watched the fight. Seemed borderline to me. I forget, you are only allowed to throw knees to the body of a downed opponent, correct?

[Bullrush]

well i supposed chael can fight silva a million times, at some point he might win a fight. then he can claim he's better

[Xyei]

I ordered the fight at my house and thought Anderson was gonna get DQ'd at first. The knee landed really high on his chest but I don't think it was intended for his head. His thigh brushed his head a bit but it was aimed right for his chest and I'm sure that hurt like a bitch!