{"id":344511,"date":"2010-02-20T21:59:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-221046:1"},"modified":"2010-02-20T21:59:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:59:17","slug":"controversy-at-ufc-110-head-butt-gives-soszynski-the-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/344511","title":{"rendered":"Controversy at UFC 110: Head butt gives Soszynski the win"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Krzysztof Soszynski escaped a tough one with a shaky blow that ripped open a huge gash on Stephan Bonnar’s head. The Canadian was awarded a TKO victory at 1:04 of the third round in the final undercard fight at UFC 110. Yahoo! Sports’ Kevin Iole reported that it did not appear to be the result of a clean Soszynski strike.<\/p>\n

Bonnar took another loss on his record, but this one was perhaps undeserved. He was cut wide open on the top middle of his forehead by a head butt in the third round as he and Krzysztof Soszynski were each throwing a punch.<\/p>\n

Soszynski had been in control of the fight and got the win when referee John Sharp ruled the cut was caused by a punch. <\/p>\n

"I was feeling strong in the third round and I was excited to keep going," Bonnar said. "Sorry guys: I wanted to give you a few more minutes of entertainment."<\/p>\n

But Soszynski (19-9, 4-1 UFC) was very impressive and was frequently beating Bonnar to the punch. <\/p>\n

Bonnar has lost three straight and 5-of-7. Under normal circumstances, he may in jeopardy of being dumped from the UFC roster. The circumstances of this decision keeps him in a safe position. Bonnar (11-7, 5-6 UFC) also has a special place in Dana White’s heart. The UFC president often points to the Spike television battle between Bonnar and Forrest Griffin on the Season 1 "Ultimate Fighter Finale" as the fight that saved the promotion back in 2005.  <\/p>\n

Kevin Iole contributed to this report<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Krzysztof Soszynski escaped a tough one with a shaky blow that ripped open a huge gash on Stephan Bonnar’s head. The Canadian was awarded a TKO victory at 1:04 of the third round in the final undercard fight at UFC 110. Yahoo! Sports’ Kevin Iole reported that it did not appear to be the result […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}