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Gafurov (20-7) missed weight by a whopping five pounds for his bantamweight clash against Wiklacz (18-3) on the prelims at UFC Fight Night 266 at the Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday. While Gafurov had Wiklacz on his heels in the first round, the Polish fighter bounced back in the second round. Gafurov looked to be edging out the third round when he started frantically looking for a finish in the final seconds. Wiklacz took the opportunity to jump a mounted guillotine on Gafurov. While Gafurov showed a thumbs-up right before the final bell, he bizarrely tapped out with a second left in the fight. Referee Chris Tognoni watched the replay and confirmed that Gafurov tapped out before the final bell.
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Gafurov told his teammate, Merab Dvalishvili, that he thought he had heard the final bell before tapping out. Gafurov was frantically tapping as he couldn’t fathom why the referee was not separating them.
“I heard the bell, brother,” Gafurov said. “I was thinking, ‘Why are you not [separating]?’”
‘He Never Taps to a Choke’
Dvalishvili says that it was an unfortunate ending as Gafurov is the kind of fighter who usually never taps.
“He first said he was good,” Dvalishvili said. “And then when he heard the bell, he tap. It’s so unfortunate. Congratulations to Jakub. I don’t have nothing against him, he’s a good fighter. But my brother Muin never taps to a choke. It’s so unfortunate.”
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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