Comments on: Jones Seeking Reversal of Hamill Fight Decision http://mmapayout.com/2009/12/jones-seeking-reversal-of-hamill-fight-decision/ Thu, 24 May 2012 02:59:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JJ http://mmapayout.com/2009/12/jones-seeking-reversal-of-hamill-fight-decision/comment-page-1/#comment-1202 JJ Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:32:22 +0000 http://mmapayout.com/?p=7361#comment-1202 That tragedy of this situation is the fight should have been stopped before it got to this point. Hamill was being dominated like he never had been before. Whatever Hamill was doing to "intelligently" defend himself wasn't enough IMO. It's a joke that amazing referee's like Big John are kept out due to bureaucratic red tape and/or the secret ability of promoters to play favourites and pick the refs, when people's safety and livelihood are in jeopardy whenever a poor decision is made. Seriously though, how many more screw ups by Steve Mazzagati before someone gets seriously hurt. Just a few UFC events ago he let someone (Chris Leben against Jake Rosholt?) who was tapping go unconscious for some idiotic reason, rather than stop the fight. This referee is an accident waiting to happen. This whole scenario brings back shades of Kevin Burns winning against Anthony Johnson by illegal eye poke. How many awful calls does that make it for Steve now? That tragedy of this situation is the fight should have been stopped before it got to this point. Hamill was being dominated like he never had been before. Whatever Hamill was doing to “intelligently” defend himself wasn’t enough IMO.

It’s a joke that amazing referee’s like Big John are kept out due to bureaucratic red tape and/or the secret ability of promoters to play favourites and pick the refs, when people’s safety and livelihood are in jeopardy whenever a poor decision is made.

Seriously though, how many more screw ups by Steve Mazzagati before someone gets seriously hurt. Just a few UFC events ago he let someone (Chris Leben against Jake Rosholt?) who was tapping go unconscious for some idiotic reason, rather than stop the fight. This referee is an accident waiting to happen.

This whole scenario brings back shades of Kevin Burns winning against Anthony Johnson by illegal eye poke. How many awful calls does that make it for Steve now?

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