Atlantic City – Nathan Kelly tapped and then went to sleep in PFL Atlantic City, choked by a Frederik Dupras Guillotine Choke.
The featherweight battle led to a little controversy after the referee apparently was out of the position to actually see the tap, which led to Kelly being unnecessarily put asleep, no matter how temporary.
After the game, Canada’s Dupras (9-2) gave his side of the interruption.
“The thing is, it happened to me earlier. I tell the referee that the man was out, it was a bit viral. Now I knew that if I have a sub, I never let go that the referee stops it,” he told media, including Cageside Press Backstage in the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Of course the ref was slow to call in this case. And Dupras just couldn’t know for sure.
“At one point I knew he was ticking, but he didn’t give me a reaction after that. So I thought:” Okay, he tapped, but he just tried to fight it back, or? If you find me a bit bluffing, don’t try to make it a tap. I was like “Okay, I just keep it” but she [the ref] Was like “oh no no, stop it.” ‘
“I didn’t know he was gone,” Dupras ended. “I thought it seemed a bit, maybe when we fell, he breathed in, but he was gone.”
Regarding his suffocation: “If I have it, I know it’s GG. Good play, my brother,” Dupras explained.
The result of Friday’s fight was a very different other than the PFL debut by Frederik Dupras, where he himself was submitted by Gabriel Braga.
“I think I have to be clear, I canceled one day or two days,” Dupras noted. “I was not prepared for this. But now, with Kelly, I was prepared for this. Sometimes it happens, sometimes, it comes to me. But it is different if you are prepared.”
“I am an animal, brother. If I go, I go. I come in here like a train. I can’t stop, will not stop.”
View the full PFL Atlantic City after the press conference with Frederik Dupras above.
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