The British UFC star Lerone Murphy is one of the very exclusive group that is still unbeaten in the UFC, but he almost lost his 0 in a very controversial fight.
On UFC 319 on August 16, the middleweight title will be on the line in the main event, because Dricus du Plessis Khamzat Chimaev wants to hand over the first loss of his career.
'Borz', however, is not the only unbeaten hunter on the map, as in the Co-Main event, the British star Lerone Murphy compensates against UFC newcomer Aaron Pico in a late knowledge fight.
Pico was originally established to accept Movsar Evloev in what a featherweight number one contender would have been, but Evloev pulled himself out of the fight only a few weeks ago.
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Murphy lost almost undefeated record to UFC Debutant
'The Miracle' has been swallowed away in the featherweight division for a while, and it may be difficult to feel that he has not yet received a title shot.
Nevertheless, the performances of the 34-year-old relatively hit and Miss and he came extremely close to losing his undefeated record when he returned to London at UFC 286 and Gabriel Santos.
Initially, fans questioned the booking in view of the fact that it was Santos' first fight in the promotion and Murphy rode an impressive four fight undefeated streak.
However, it became clear early in the fight that the matchmaking might not be as bad as it initially seemed when Santos brought the fight to Murphy and brought him into a number of extremely uncomfortable positions.
Each round played extremely closely and by the end the Brazilian debutant was closest to the fight finish, which shocked the fan base.
Nevertheless, Murphy opposed the split decision profit controversially, which was disputed by a large part of the Fanbase Online.
Fan response to the controversial scorecards
“Murphy won no way to 2, clowns!” A fan responded after the result.
“Disgusting score cards,” said another fan.
“Terrible decision. The English judges did this last time with Paddy (Pimblett). We have to find out, the reputation of the UFC is injured by these bad judges,” a third fan noted.
Murphy then recovered from a questionable version and scored four unanimous decisions in a row, with his last against Josh Emmett.