Al-Turk to appeal CroCop result

Mostapha Al-Turk has admitted that they will launch an appeal against the result of the fight against Mirko ‘CroCop’ Filipovic at UFC 99.

The fight in Germany was stopped in the first round after Al-Turk covered his face with both hands and turned away.

“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.”

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