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Jon Jones’ manager has decided to file a formal protest with the Nevada State Athletic Commission over his disqualification loss against Matt Hamill at the TUF 10 Finale.

Hearing Jones’ comments both in the cage immediately after the decision, and during the post-even press conference, it appeared that Jones was fine with the decision and didn’t have any problems with it. According to his management team, Jones still feels that way, but his manager has decided to go ahead and appeal the decision.

Let’s be clear, Jon is not “unhappy” he feels as all things happen for a reason. We are protesting the L because we felt that Jon’s opponent could not effectively communicate why he could not continue.

The rules state that an intentional foul and that the fighter cannot continue based on injury sustained from the foul. Hamill could not contnue due to a broken shoulder.

Jon should have been deducted a point for the accidental illegal blow. Matt should have been treated like we treat the Brazilians and given 5 minutes to regroup and offered a translator so the ref could make the right call and understand Matt could not continue due to his shoulder injury not the blow.

This should be a NC for both fighters but not a loss. Hammil continued with an injured Shoulder and only complained once the action was stopped (warrior) but the fight was stopped based on the shoulder injury in our opinion.

In this case, I completely agree with his manager and think he should file an appeal.

In fact, in my TUF 10 recap I basically said the same exact thing his manager said. Hamill was not unable to continue because of the elbow strikes, he was unable to continue because of the shoulder injury he suffered during the takedown.

I don’t expect the NSAC to overturn the decision, and I’m pretty sure that Jones and his camp don’t either, but I have no problem with them appealing the decision in hopes of getting the only loss of of his record.