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Originally Posted by Cooking With Dom Deluise
I understand there is bias, because Miragliotta did do a pretty horrible job at EXC, but at this event he did a fine job and just take a look at this one more time. If Vera didn't want this to be stopped he shouldn't have went to this position and rolled away while not even defending himself.
This isn't intelligent defense nor was it that brief. It went on for several seconds and the reason that people are complaining is most likely a combination of being sore at Dan Miragliotta for being a bad ref at EXC CBS and Vera's complaining afterwards influencing viewer perception.
Karo did the same thing and it was blatantly obvious upon rewatching that that it looks more legit after each view and that his complaining was influencing fan perception.
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that was the absolute definition of defending ones self. He was actively attempting to escape (by rolling to exit the back door, or sweeping with the leg trapped undernieth) while proactively protecting himself from blows with a very active block.
terrrrrrrrible stop. absolutely abysimal. he wasn't dazed, he hadn't given up... and he was CLEARLY defending himself. this is like the ref deciding that a submission, in this case a sub by strikes, is locked in while the fighter is still fighting it off.
i'm not saying that vera was in a good spot, or winning, but he was CLEARLY defending himself. All refs need to stop reading between lines in the rules. defending is defending. knocked out is knocked out, not dizzy. Submitted is submitted, not 'in trouble'.