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Originally Posted by Cartheron
It's Vera's fault for getting mounted, just covering up and not trying to improve position. He is the only one to blame.
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Big John McCarthy disagrees with you, but what does he know?
http://www.sherdog.com/news/radio.asp?id=636
Bottomline, the fight gets stopped because the fighter is no longer defending himself, not because he's not returning the strikes, and Brandon was still defending himself. He could easily have lasted another 20 seconds and maybe come back to win in the next round.
Quote from John in that interview:
John: From what I was seeing, he got hit with a couple shots but he was blocking a lot of them, and he was doing a pretty good job of defending himself in a bad situation... I don't think he'd damaged Brandon enough at this point that he couldn't intelligently defend himself.
Interviewer: I was just gonna ask, do you have a solid opinion on that? if you were the ref, what would you do?
John: Everyone's going to form an opinion, and this is what I'm saying, Dan went with his opinion at the time, and there's people that are gonna look at it and say, "you were wrong", and there's people that are gonna say "oh you were right", and that's fine. But you know, would I have stopped it the fight when it did? no, I wouldn't have.