By Guilherme Cruz

Photo Esther Lin

The Brazilian night on Strikeforce, which happened last Saturday on the United States, would be perfect, but Vitor Shaolin was defeated by Lyle Beerbohm by unanimous decision. Despite all American journalists pointed out the win of the Brazilian, the judges did not agreed with them. “Man, it’s the first time I see a guy spending all the fight defending himself and getting off there with a loss”, rebelled André Pederneiras, Nova União’s leader. “There were a lot of critics, because Shaolin attacked all the time and there was a judge that gave 30 to 27 for the other guy…I think they missed his name on the paper, it’s not possible”.

In a chat with TATAME, Pederneiras revealed he and the manager Alex Davis will file a lawsuit along with the Athletic Commission, asking them to change the result. “They can’t do that, is absurd, it’s not right. Even if I have to ask the help of a lawyer, I will change this outcome”, says André, complaining that the judges were wrong in other contests too. "I can’t understand. When I went to see it, there was a guy who gave the round to a guy who was beaten up by Jacaré in three rounds, and now they managed to give a round for the guy who was beaten by “BigFoot” during the three rounds”, he complains.

Despite being a hard mission to accomplish, Pederneiras hopes make the result a No Contest, at least. And he has done that before. “Here in the U.S. I don’t how it worksk. I was in Japan, an even that no one has never cancel a result before (Shooto), and I didn’t even need a lawyer there, I just wrote a letter telling the whole fight, point by point, second by second and a loss they have given to Robinho turned out a draw. I couldn’t make it a win, but I got a draw”, the black belt reminds, when he cancelled the loss of Róbson Moura against Mamoru Yamaguchi in 2004.