Nurmagomedov prevailed on a 47-47, 48-46, 48-46 scorecard towards Hughes in a good tussle in Dubai.
“I believe the judges’ scorecards have been fairly ridiculous, however as I say I will watch it again with a transparent thoughts,” mentioned Hughes on the time.
Virtually three weeks later and Hughes nonetheless believes he ought to have been awarded victory.
“Completely there is no such thing as a doubt, clearly it was a detailed combat [but] there isn’t any query that these previous few rounds I used to be the aggressor doing the harm, particularly the final spherical,” mentioned Hughes.
“How all judges did not rating me the final spherical is totally ludicrous. The strain I used to be placing on, the harm I used to be doing.
“He was holding on for his life and the one means I can see them extremely scoring him is him kneeing me within the leg for 60 seconds and simply holding on for expensive life – that was it however I used to be placing the tempo on him the remainder of the final spherical.”
Hughes additionally feels the combat turned on a fourth-round stoppage brought on by a conflict of heads – Nurmagomedov needed to be checked by the physician after the incident which left Hughes with a lower to the brow.
“Due to how the combat ended and the momentum shift – I believe the momentum bought killed the with head conflict on the finish of the fourth.
“I believe that was after I was actually taking up however look that’s combating and it simply did not go my means that night time however I’ll be certain that it goes my means subsequent time.”
