From eye samples to main collisions, popular UFC Middleweight Competier Chris 'The Action Man' Curtis has experienced his considerable part of bad luck in the Octagon.
Nevertheless, demonstrably the most controversial moment of his UFC official period only recently arrived during the first UFC event of 2025, when he losed a last second TKO-Storing for Roman Kopylov.
And when we say 'last second', we literally mean the last second, where referee Mark Smith waves at 4:59 of the third round of the third round after 'The Action Man' was fallen by a main kick.
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Chris Curtis will continue to shred UFC referee during the loss of the last second
While Chris Curtis does not in any way won his fight against Kopylov on UFC Fight Night: Dern vs Ribas 2 on January 11, he was certainly not eliminated when referee Mark Smith stopped a stop to the game with a second to go.
Three weeks after that controversial stop loss and Curtis still sings about his professional record, now with a new TKO defeat, while he shed Smith in the last episode of Weeging.
“God damn, just like the fight is over in one F ****** second bro, I don't know what the score is. I just don't understand why you give me a stop loss with another second left if I'm not in danger, I am not eliminated and I look at you.
“I have had so many problems with really stupid referee in the UFC and it is frustrating when we talk about it in the back … And then you continue to do nothing we were talking about in the back [in the fight]. “
Curtis believes, even though he runs away with more than $ 200,000 in fighting money, that when he steps into the Octagon with Smith as the third man, he fights two fights: one against his opponent, the other against the referee.
“I just feel that I am constantly fighting bad luck and my opponent, bad luck and bad referees, it's just so frustrating … I have had great referees [call my fights] But I feel that Mark Smith is constantly up F ****, it's just frustrating.
“Man, it's hard for me to be in a fight and to be comfortable with a referee I know it's a half-on, half-off … I love to fight, and if I don't Mark Smith If my referee could have, I would like that, it is difficult as a hunter to be there with a referee you don't trust. “
Chris Curtis' last second TKO loss divided the MMA community
The decision to terminate the fight on the 4:59 marking was so controversial that it even caused a rare argument at the employment agency, with Paul Felder and Din Thomas disagreing about Smith's actions.
“That fight should not have been stopped,” said Felder, with the argument that “there is a second on the clock and Kopylov is nowhere in the area, I wish he had the opportunity to be at least and at least and to have the decision read instead of being instead of being instead of being instead of being instead of being instead of being instead of being instead of being instead of being instead of being instead of being instead of being instead of being instead of being Instead of being a TKO.
“I'm going here the side of Mark Smith,” Thomas replied: “It is not his task to ensure that the hunter gets a moral victory [and] It is not the task of the referee to view the clock. “
“The man is still standing up, there is no hunter near him,” reprimanded the former UFC hunter, “Even if the clock is not there, you have to let it go!”
Veteran -Officer 'Big' John McCarthy would later also come to Curtis' defense, which stated that it was a 'bad interruption' and that he had let the fight continue for the last milliseconds.
“You have to stop the fight when the person cannot defend himself, and at that moment there was nothing to defend against.
“When he is gone, stop the fight. But if he is not, and his opponent walks away and you know that I have heard all the claps of the shelves. Count down in my head if you do the work correctly … I don't stop fighting [there]. “
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