Cédric Doumbè is looking for his axis of defense.
Beaten by Baysangur “Baki” Chamsoudinov last Thursday, during the PFL Paris evening at the Accor Arena, the Frenchman was stopped by the referee after complaining of a splinter in his foot.
Since this defeat, he has tried to plead his case, and ask that this defeat be transformed into a “no contest”, synonymous with a fight without a winner.
Guest of the podcast “The MMA Hour” this Monday, Cédric Doumbè mentioned a new theory to explain the presence of a splinter in the cage.
“In the third round, I stepped on something in the cage because, during the evening, people were walking with their shoes on, even the guests,” he regretted.
They did an interview...I don't want to blame him...with Tony Parker.
Tony Parker, you walked into the cage with your shoes on!
They didn't clean the cage after him.
I'm laughing, but because we could never have imagined that this kind of thing could happen, but it happened.
And we must take this into account.
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“It’s very small what he had”
The former glory of the San Antonio Spurs is not the only one to have entered the PFL cage.
Cyrille Diabaté and Salahdine Parnasse were also invited.
All the staff members, referees, announcers and PFL leaders also came up with their shoes.
So many people who could have brought a thorn, which ultimately stuck in the foot of Cédric Doumbè.
The Frenchman could also have brought it himself.
Asked about this at the end of the evening, Dan Hardy, president of PFL Europe, raised this possibility.
“Cédric Doumbè was not wearing shoes when he entered the cage,” he said.
We will probably never know where this splinter came from.
But this tiny piece of wood continues to cause a lot of talk.
“It’s very small what he had,” Baki laughed, Monday evening, on the Quotidien show.