Former UFC middleweight number one contender Vitor Belfort re-established his place among the 185-pound elite by lobotomizing Yoshihiro Akiyama at UFC 133 last Saturday night (Aug. 6) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Following his first round knockout over "Sexyama," the power-punching Brazilian came under fire for what appeared to be multiple strikes to the back of Akiyama's head, currently outlawed by the unified rules of mixed martial arts.
But is it much ado about nothing?
"The Phenom" tells Caged Insider that "only one strike to the back of the head" landed and that "these things happen" when two fighters are throwing with bad intentions inside the cage.
Here's more:
"In the heat of the fight maybe a strike can go to the wrong spot, but in this fight [with Akiyama] it wasn't the case for the knock out. The referee was very close watching everything. Looking back it was only one strike to the back of the head, the other was on the side, its a fight and things like this happen sometimes unintentionally."
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