The MMA world felt that Drew Dober had been cheated out of an opportunity when the referee errantly stopped his fight with Leandro Silva at UFC Fight Night 62.

The rules in place at athletic commissions rarely allow for a referee’s judgment call to be overturned after the fact, so most assumed Dober (15-6 MMA, 1-2 UFC) would have a submission loss in the fight on his record for good, no matter how ridiculous the call was.

In a shocking move, the athletic commission in Brazil decided to overturn the result of the fight, ruling it a no-contest and providing some sense of fairness in a sport in which it feels there so often is none.

“I am satisfied that the loss is taken off the record,” Dober told MMAjunkie Radio. “However, being a fighter, I would love to have a win. To have that taken from me is disappointing. It is what it is. I want to thank the Brazilian athletic commission for working hard and doing the right thing and doing something that they’ve never done in the past to overturn this fight.”

Dober was actually contacted directly by the athletic commission before the news was made public – another rare moment in a sport in which we so often hear fighters say that they learned of important news when someone tagged them in a tweet.

“The Brazilian athletic commission called me,” Dober said. “They called me before everything was announced and gave me a verbal apology and explained the situation to me and told me that they’re going to overturn the fight before anyone else knew.”

While the obvious next step in the opinion of many was to run it back and have Dober and Silva settle the score in the cage, Dober seemed oddly at ease with simply moving forward with his career.

“The entire rematch – there’s really no bad blood,” Dober said. “There’s just the referee’s decision that made things awkward. So, no bad blood. To be completely honest, rematch or just move on. I’m willing to fight any guy in the UFC lightweight division. It really doesn’t matter to me. The UFC will choose what’s best for me and I’d just like to prove myself in my next fight.”

In the hours following the radio show, UFC fans would learn why Dober was so content with moving forward without a rematch.

Dober will face Season 8 “Ultimate Fighter” winner Efrain Escudero (23-9 MMA, 4-5 UFC) at UFC 188 in Mexico.

Dober had a brief scare following the Silva fight in which UFC President Dana White made it sound like he may be getting cut from the UFC for submitting.

“Once we were back in the locker room, I was told that Dana White wanted to see me,” Dober said. “The first thing he said was that he couldn’t believe that I would tap that quick to a guillotine and that I shouldn’t be a UFC fighter because of it. And then he smiled and said, ‘Just kidding.’ Then we laughed and he said that I would get paid the win bonus and he thought it was complete BS and would try his best to get it overturned into a no-contest.”

For complete coverage of UFC Fight Night 62, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.

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