Mostapha Al-Turk apparently doesn’t agree with Mirko Cro Cop Filipovic’s assertion that the inadvertent eye-poke in the first round of their UFC 99 bout had no effect on the outcome, because he plans to appeal that ugly (for several reasons) loss, according to his agent, Ken Pavia:
“We are going to appeal that, we don’t think its right that it should be a TKO. The referee should have got onto the eye poke,” said Al-Turk’s agent Ken Pavia. “Look at Henderson v Franklin at UFC 93 in Dublin. Franklin got a timeout when he got eye-poked. …With the fight taking place in Germany we aren’t sure what the protocol is, but we will put our appeal in writing and see what we can do.”
Related: Cro Cop now says that his rumored departure from the UFC and signing with Dream is “a business secret,” and he doesn’t want to talk about it. That’s not exactly a denial, is it?
