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Trey Ogden thought he had defeated Nikolas Motta by submission on the preliminary card of UFC Fight Night 232, but referee Mike Beltran committed an error by stopping the fight too early during Ogden’s submission attempt on Motta, causing the fight result to be a no contest.
Ogden, who was certain he would’ve eventually finished Motta with an arm triangle choke, would still like the UFC to give him his full win bonus, despite the ref’s screw up.
“I’m just trying to keep my composure and be a professional,” Ogden said at the UFC Fight Night 232 post-fight news conference (transcript via Farah Hannoun & Ken Hathaway of MMA Junkie). “Life happens. I’m no stranger to adversity, but this one hurts. I mean, records are records, numbers are numbers, but I really hope I get my win purse because I deserve it. And I won all three rounds.”
Due to the no contest, Ogden will finish 2023 with an 0-1-0-1NC record and he hasn’t picked up a victory since UFC Fight Night 210 in September of 2022.
The fighter is confident that there was no way Motta was escaping his arm triangle choke at UFC Fight Night 232.
“There’s no way possible Nik was getting out of that (choke),” Ogden said. “Anyone who has trained with me knows that, anyone who knows my career knows that and whether he tapped or not, Nik Motta knows he was not getting out. So, in my eyes, I won the fight. I just hope I get paid.”
