Jamey-Lyn Horth left scratching head at UFC Winnipeg loss: 'Completely confident we won'

According to Tapology, the province of Manitoba had only held three combat sports events between 2019 and Saturday. Horth wondered if perhaps lack of repetitions could have contributed to the final outcome, and theorized a potential solution if that was indeed the problem.

"The fact that Manitoba isn't really a place that has a lot of events, they haven't had a UFC fight there since 2017, does that play into it?" Horth said. "That the commission isn't very much immersed and not getting involved frequently in this position? Are they ringside, etc.? Are they up to date on the criteria? I'm sure this is all tru., I'm sure they have all these things, but my initial thoughts are like, we have a UFC roster that travels around with the UFC, and then the commission in each jurisdiction is different. But with judging, is there any way to have more consistent judging? Like with referees, where you have a pool of referees that you bring with you wherever you go. Is there not some way to maybe have some sort of judging where you have a certain amount of judges so that the testing and the criteria for judging is relatively the same for every fight and every fighter?"

Media and fans largely disagreed with the official decision, with 92 percent of fans scoring the fight for Aldrich and nine of 10 media members doing the same (per MMA Decisions).

Horth said Iridium Sports Agency, which represents her, is weighing options about a potential appeal. However, scoring appeals leading to action seldom result in anything besides a denial. Given that, Horth remains optimistic, as she awaits her next fight offer.

It's a silver lining that doesn't offset half of her potential pay evaporating, but Horth hopes the promotion views the fight as a win as they continue to handle her career going forward.

"I know my agents are very much connected with the matchmakers and the team with the UFC, and I trust that they'll get me set up and sort of figure things out," Horth said. "That's kind of why I think I have this weird intuitive feeling in my gut that something's gonna happen, and I just don't know what it is. But I really do feel like there's been some conversations with my agent (Jason House) and some of the UFC team, and they felt sort of along the lines of, 'What the f*ck?' And yeah, I hope that having a loss on my record is one thing, but it's just like the trajectory of which I feel like I was climbing and sort of getting favorable fights or matchups and being treated as, 'maybe this was just a mistake that we just can't actually overturn, but we can sort of work on.'"

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