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Originally Posted by Perhaps Shimmy
Its pretty results oriented to say "weidman would have lost anyway" or "weidman couldnt continue anyway". Once the ref calls the fight, its either a DQ or a no contest. After they confirmed via replay and Weidman couldn't continue, it should have been a no contest.
The ref did not call the fight. He stopped it because he thought it was an illegal knee and was giving Weidman time to recover. Weidman, at this point, seemed to be saying he couldn't continue. Ref then finds out it was NOT an illegal knee and tells Weidman that. Weidman then changes his tune and says he is fine, don't stop the fight. The doctors refuse to let him continue because of what he said earlier and they rule it a TKO for Mousasi since there were no illegal blows.
The problems here are:
1) Ref mistakenly thought it was illegal knee. He shouldn't have stopped it but in fairness it was incredibly close, we needed a frame by frame slow motion replay to see it.
2) There is no replay allowed in NY, so ref shouldn't have known it actually was legal. On live broadcast it sounded to me like someone just told him, not that he looked at a replay. Is someone allowed to tell him that? If so, who is allowed to? Anyone? Only certain people? Who knows.
3) Cruz kept saying the Dr's were not allowed to rule Weidman unfit to continue in that circumstance so they should not have stopped the fight. No idea if that is true or not but given Wideman's duplicity in pretending to be hurt/not hurt even if this was not allowed we ended up with the correct result.
I hope Mousasi tells Weidman to shove his rematch up his ass. Hope appeal goes nowhere, Weidman lost that fight pure and simple.