Just hours after Michael Bisping released an official statement regarding his controversial split-decision victory at UFC 75, opponent Matt Hamill has released one of his own.

UFC took place this past Saturday at the 02 Arena in London, England. In one of the night’s televised fights, Bisping defeated Hamill with scores of 29-28, 29-28 and 27-30 — despite the fact that he appeared to have clearly one the first and second rounds of the three-round fight.

In it a message posted at matthamill.com, Hamill says that the two judges who scored the fight in Bisping’s favor (Cecil Peoples and Jeff Mullen) need to re-evaluate their scoring criteria.

From the statement:

I think MMA is a great sport and I don’t believe in any kind of a fix. The two judges that scored the win for Bisping obviously need to re-evaluate the way they score a fight. You can’t win a fight when you run for three rounds. They need to study the criteria for scoring an MMA fight: effective striking, grappling, takedowns, aggression and control. Bisping did none of that in my opinion.

Because England has no athletic commission, the UFC was responsible for regulating the event. UFC Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Marc Ratner was charged with the tasks of drug testing the fighters and choosing officials — including Mullen and Peoples — to judge the UFC 75 fights.

UFC President Dana White has already stated that the organization plans for Bisping and Hamill to fight again at a future event.

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