Den gångna helgen möttes tungviktarna Alistair Overeem och Jairzinho Rozenstruik under UFC:s gala i Washington D.C., där Overeem förlorade via knockout. Den holländske fightern träffades av ett rejält slag över vänster sida av munnen som klöv itu hans överläpp.
Domaren Dan Miragliotta bröt matchen vid 4:56 i den femte ronden när Overeem föll till mattan av slaget. Rozenstruik fortsatte inte att slå mot Overeem, utan valde istället gå ifrån i tron att han redan segrat. Vissa menar att Miragliotta därför stoppade mötet för tidigt.
Anyone else think the walkoff tricks the ref into stopping the fight
— David Rickels (@TheCaveman316) December 8, 2019
I podcasten ’Weighing In’ deltog UFC-domaren John McCarthy i en intervju med Josh Thomson, där han frågades hur han såg på stoppet.
I have no problem with the actual stoppage. And the reason why is what happened with the actual stoppage is that when Alistair Overeem popped up, when you saw him pop up what did he do? He stumbles over and that’s when Dan called it. The problem if you’re going to look and say is there a problem with the stoppage? Yes, there kind of was, and I don’t want to pick on Dan in this at all.
This is one of those, it’s so hard to be Dan in that situation and for people to understand what is going through his mind right there because he comes in when Jairzinho hits Alistair and when Alistair goes down, Dan is coming in and he’s trying to pass over the spacing of those two guys. And he’s trying to see because he’s looking at Alistair, he’s not looking at Jairzinho and Jairzinho stops and Dan comes into him, and his hands touch Jairzinho, and that basically tells Jairzinho, ‘Oh that’s the referee,’ and he puts his hands up and he starts walking away. Dan had not called the fight.
McCarthy menar att Overeem hade svårt att stå ordentligt, vilket gjorde att Miragliotta inte kände att han stoppat matchen för tidigt.
I was really glad honestly that Alistair didn’t just pop up and stand there. There was that stumble because that gave Dan the ability to say, ‘I’m not going to let you go on in the fight.’ But he could have because he knew the 10-second clapper went off, so he is counting down in his head, he knows there are only five seconds left in this round when he calls the fight, so he’s calling it based on the safety of Alistair Overeem. A lot of people aren’t going to like it. I don’t have a problem with it.
Håller ni med McCarthy om det han säger?
