Jake Matthews’ attempt to get his loss to Neil Magny overturned has been denied.
A month ago, Magny (31-13 MMA, 24-12 UFC) submitted Matthews (21-8 MMA, 15-8 UFC) in the third round of their welterweight fight on the main card at UFC Perth in Western Australia. But the fight was one that featured a lot of controversy about 10 minutes earlier at the end of the first round.
Matthews appealed the loss with the Western Australia Combat Commission, but Magny and his team posted on social media Monday that the appeal has been denied and Magny will remain the fight’s winner.
Matthews, an Australian who was about a 4-1 favorite in the fight, had Magny trapped in a mounted guillotine choke late in the first round. Referee Jim Perdios looked like he stopped the fight when it appeared Magny’s right arm had gone limp with about three seconds left.
But when Magny immediately protested the stoppage, Perdios moved the fight to Round 2 rather than saying it was over based on his decision, thinking Magny was out. And just when it looked like Matthews might get the win, anyway, in the third, he got caught in a Magny D’Arce choke and tapped.
Matthews had a three-fight winning streak snapped with the loss in front of his home fans in Australia. A win would have been his third in 2025. Magny, considered one of the welterweight division’s gatekeepers at this point in his career, picked up his second straight upset win in 2025 after a TKO of Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos in August.
