Ladd Appealing TKO Loss To ‘Iron Lady’

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”I think it was a good stoppage because I really, really rocked her with the punch,” De Randamie told ESPN after the fight. “Then I threw another punch and if Herb Dean wasn’t gonna step in, I was going to step in, I was going to jump on top of her and finish the fight anyways. Why do more damage? She was rocked bad.”

Once-beaten Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women’s bantamweight contender, Aspen Ladd, believes referee Herb Dean was premature in his stoppage of her Germaine De Randamie loss in the UFC Sacramento main event last July.

That’s why the 24 year-old Californian will be appealing the decision — a first-round technical knockout loss — when the state athletic commission convenes on Tuesday (Oct. 15, 2019), according to a new report from ESPN.

What a difference a few months makes.

”Not the result we wanted, I’ll roll with it,” Ladd said just one day after her defeat. “Respect to Germaine De Randamie, she did her job, it’s all good with Herb Dean. Thank you to my crew.”

Apparently it’s not all good, but her chances of getting the commission to overturn a judgment call are remote. You can’t regulate discretion, which means Ladd and Co. would have to demonstrate incompetency or some blatant rule infraction to prevail.

Not likely.