MONTE CARLO, Monaco(ივლისი 15, 2016)- შერეული საბრძოლო ხელოვნების მსოფლიო ასოციაცია (WMMAA) has issued an announcement regarding an appeal recently filed by სტეფანო სარტორი, ბრაზილიელი მებრძოლის მენეჯერი Fabio მალდონადო, მისი ივნისის შედეგი გადააფასოს 17^ე ბრძოლასთან ერთად ფიოდორ, რომელიც სათაურით Fight Nights Global 50 სანკტ-პეტერბურგში, რუსეთი.

WMMAA General Secretary & უფროსი ვიცე პრეზიდენტი ალექსანდრე ენგელჰარდტი (სურათები მარცხენა) has declared that Emelianenko vs. მალდონადო, which was originally ruled a majority decision victory in favor of Emeliananko, officially be changed to a draw.

Team Malondado’s appeal to the WMMAA was filed claiming a conflict of interest because all of the judges are employed by the Russian MMA Union, რომლის პრეზიდენტიც ემელიანენკოა, as well as for the initial appeal to the Russian MMA Union, a sanctioned WMMAA member, being unjustly rejected by the head jury.

Engelhardt was appointed by WMMAA present Vadim Finkelchetein to handle the appeal procedure. A committee was formed comprised of Engelhardt, Hector Molina (Mexico), Chairman of the Rules, Regulations and Referee Committee; Ino Alberga (The Netherlands), Member of the Rules, Regulations and Referee Committee; Poalo Biotti (იტალია), Chairman Ethics and Disciplinary Committee; Zaya Zaya (ავსტრალიაში), Member Professional Referee Committee.

გარდა ამისა,, independent judge მარკო ძმები (The Netherlands), Chairman of Professional Referee Committee and Ethics and Disciplinary Committee, was responsible for selecting an independent judges’ panel to reassess the original result. The three-judges were Youri Lamoureux (კანადაში), Lukasz Bosacki(პოლონეთი) და Alexey Zemskov (რუსეთი).

Each of the three aforementioned judges scored the first round in favor of Emelianenko, 10-8, and the second and third rounds for Maldonado, 10-9 each, resulting in a 28-28 მიაპყროს.

The appeal procedure was divided into two parts for review in terms of whether the procedural mistakes related to the fight were made and that an independent international judges’ panel had to review the fight.

The WMMAA came to the conclusion that the appeal was legitimate and it was accepted due to the fact one of the fighters, Emelianenko, as President of the Russian MMA Union, and Head of Judges, რადმირ გაბდულინი, had a working relationship that could potentially affect the judgmental decisions. The WMMAA made it clear that it wasn’t saying the aforementioned relationship led to a different outcome of the result, just that it was an unfortunate choice.

გარდა ამისა,, the WMMAA ruled that initially refusing the appeal was a mistake based on WMMAA amateur rules as Emelianenko vs. Maldonado was conducted under WMMAA rules.

The appeal decision that resulted in the result being changed to “Unanimous Draw” was accepted by the WMMAA, which informed Fight Nights, the promoter of Emelianko vs. მალდონადო, Emelianenko, Sartori and the Russian MMA Union of its decision, and that it official had closed the appeal.

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