UFC welterweight contender Michael Morales turned out to be undefeated in any case.
Earlier this week, martial arts data database Tapology introduced that Morales’ 19-0 report can be modified to 20-1. The corporate mentioned the offender was just lately unearthed footage from a Latin American actuality present much like “The Final Fighter” that confirmed Morales dropping one battle and successful one other.
It did not take lengthy for Tapology to vary path.
Apparently, what constitutes an expert battle is very debatable, and that is the place the issues started.
Tapology withdraws Michael Morales record-breaking
“Updates on Ecuador’s ‘Ultima Perea’ league and its affect on Michael Morales’ MMA report,” Tapolozi posted on X (through MMA Mania). “We’re canceling these and classifying them as exhibitions. We’re trying ahead to many colourful replies on social media about how silly we’re. Thanks prematurely. However above all we’re truthful and need to get this proper. I We add a whole lot of matches to Tapology every single day and attempt to guage them persistently. That is tough to do given the several types of matches and conditions which can be despatched to us. One class of matches that we’re way more demanding on is exhibition matches.
“For the previous few years, now we have been very restrictive in permitting fighters and leagues to assert exhibition standing,” Tapolozi added. “This has turn out to be a loophole to maintain official matches off the report. It permits fighters to take part in skilled matches with out being counted. In consequence, new occasions despatched to us, even in actuality present format, are sometimes not exempt from contemplating Tapology’s win-loss report. That is the usual we utilized this week when reviewing the ‘Final Perea’ occasion for which we discovered footage.”
Sherdog, one other blended martial arts data database, didn’t change Morales’ report.
Michael Morales at present has no matches registered. Nevertheless, after his knockout win over Sean Brady, he has turn out to be one of many favorites to crack welterweight champion Islam Makhachev.
