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With fighters accusing him of taking their money, former Rampage Jackson trainer Juanito Ibarra is essentially banished from the world of mixed martial arts.

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Griffin won. Ibarra didn't retire.

But he hasn't stopped talking, and he's now promising to protest the judges' decision with the Nevada State Athletic Commission:

"We got robbed," Ibarra told Sherdog.com Sunday afternoon. "We won the majority of the fight."

As I live blogged the fight, I believed that Jackson won, and I was surprised that the judges awarded the fight to Griffin. But to say that Jackson got robbed is ridiculous. It was a close fight, and the judges used their discretion. Rampage lost, and he and his camp need to accept it and move on.