Duane Ludwig: ”TJ Dillashaw förtjänar en rematch mot Dominick Cruz”

TJ Dillashaw (12-3) blev besegrad av Dominick Cruz (21-1) via delat domslut på UFC Fight Night 81 och Duane Ludwig (21-14) tycker att domslutet var helt fel.

Ludwig förklarar att han tycker att Dillashaw vann tre ronder.

“I felt we won the fight,” sa Ludwig. “We won the first round, the fourth round and the fifth round. Three rounds to two, we won. It was a bad call.”

Ludwig tycker att domarna dömde helt fel och föreslår att alla som dömer matcher borde åtminstonde träna tillräckligt mycket för att förtjäna ett blå bälte i BJJ och träna Thaiboxning i ett eller två år för att ha en bättre förståelse när domarna ska döma MMA-matcher.

“Tony Weeks doesn’t know what the (expletive) he is doing,” sa han. “These judges have to earn a blue belt in jiu-jitsu and for one or two years Thai box – not cardio kickboxing at the UFC gym, so they know exactly what the (expletive) they’re doing. Lives and livelihoods are on the line when they make these (expletive) up calls, and it’s not right.

“But that aside, we should have finished the fight. I’ll accept responsibility. Maybe we need to adjust the game plan a little bit. Cruz was pretty tricky.”

Ludwig förklarar att alla slag som Dillashaw slog inte var menade att träffa Cruz, utan vissa av slagen var menade för att få Cruz att röra på sig och skapa öppningar.

“The leg kicks, the kicks to the head, all the clean, power shots,” sa Ludwig. “Just the overall quality strikes. I know Fightmetric’s out there saying T.J. missed a bunch of shots. We throw shots on purpose to make you move, to create other openings.”

“Some of the shots we legitimately missed, 100 percent,” sa han. “But a lot of those shots are shots that we train in our system, that we throw to create other openings. It’s just coming from an uneducated standpoint.”

Ludwig förklarar att han vill att Dillashaw ska få en omedelbar rematch om Cruz är skadefri, men skulle Cruz behöva ta en tid för att vila skulle Ludwig inte ha något emot att Dillashaw tar sig an Urijah Faber (33-8).

“I would like to see either an immediate rematch, because I know T.J. jacked (Cruz’s) leg up pretty good, so I know he’s going to be out for awhile,” sa Ludwig. “And if they want to put us with Faber? I’m OK with that fight. I know Faber’s looking for a payday, so let’s go sock up Faber, stay busy, and when Cruz’s gets healthy, let’s do it again. That’s fair and just.”

“(Faber) barely beat a tough journeyman in his last fight (against Frankie Saenz),” sa Ludwig. “He doesn’t deserve to fight a top-five guy. There’s a great emotional drama to get that shot, (though), so let’s give it to him. Go kick him in the face, put it behind us, and get the rematch with Cruz. That scenario is fair and just.

“But if Cruz is healthy to get back to it during the summer, let’s do that. It depends on Cruz’s health issue.”