Referee Admits Late Stoppage In Weidman vs. Munoz Bout | UFC NEWS
By Evan Stoumbelis
Wednesday night in the UFC on Fuel TV 4 main event, fans saw Chris Weidman face Mark Munoz. The All American Chris Weidman connected with an elbow that sent The Filipino Wrecking Machine Mark Munoz down. Weidman quickly began punching the downed Munoz, who was clearly unconscious. After several punishing blows referee Josh Rosenthal finally stepped in. Talk of Rosenthal’s late stoppage was quick to surface with Dana White taking to twitter saying: “Oh and by the way, horrible late stoppage by the ref. Mark took more shots than he should have. I can’t stand when refs blow it!!!”
The veteran referee Josh Rosenthal spoke about the incident on Sirius XM’s TapouT Radio Show today, saying: “”I came home and I watched it, and I was kind of like you know, if I was sitting here, watching this on the couch, I probably would have been talking smack about myself. I always say accountability is a huge part of the sport, and you are accountable for your actions. I feel like I was just a little slow on the trigger. I don’t want to see guys take unnecessary punishment. It’s a rough sport. Everyone knows what they sign in for, but it’s a millisecond-basis game. You’re making choices right there on the spot, and in the heat of the moment, I felt like I was seeing some stuff. In hindsight, I have to step my game up and make sure I’m on point for the next guys.”
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Atleast he is capable of noticing he was wrong and willing to learn from this mistake. This in contrary to other refs like Mazzagatti or Winslow
werd those 2 are unbelievably terrible, makes you wonder how the **** they got their jobs
I’ve always seen him as a good ref i noticed he gives guys alot of chances to recover but he really blew that one it should of been stopped after 3 or 4 unanswered hit especially since.they were really hard but its good he admitted he was right
Glad he admitted he was wrong. Even from his vantage point, he should have stopped it a few strikes early. Weidman hit Munoz 17 times. Even the most liberal determination of the fight being over would have stopped weidman at around the 12-13 punch point.
i mean wrong
that’s good, but it doesn’t help Munoz. It should have been stopped after the 2nd or 3rd strike on the ground. That was WAY late, like 4 super hard punches late.
it was 15 punches after the elbow. if it were kosh i’d just laugh (not really) but munoz is such a nice guy
**** the Police, **** the Government and **** the Refs especially this guys fat ass..
Praise the Police, Praise the Government and Praise the Refs…but definitely **** Up boB and his fat ass….
+1
I say praise the Police (except @Fartmonster) but **** the Government…& this Ref needs a good slap for letting Munoz take too many bombs; but no more than that b/c he was willing to admit he ****ed up. then kick Bob in the balls.
Munoz’s dumb haircut looks like a massive head wound in that shot.
LOL
yea man that haircut game is fked up..
This is about milliseconds? More like ****ing eternity. This guy could of been responsible for Munoz having major brain damage. He should be fired. There should be no second chances in this sport as reffing because peoples life is at risk..
shhhhh…. let the grown folk talk…
******
Watch your mouth Cracker!
Bob is a ****in’ moron.
i actually understand the stoppage. munoz was getting pounded but was still trying to block his head with his one free hand. few punches later and munoz is completely out gettin crushed. josh called it perfect, hesitate at all and there goes a few unanswered punches. brutal. but yea its glad he takes the criticism and learns from it. its been years, and mazzagatti and dan still dont know how to stop a fight on time.
no way man. he was only “trying to block” as he was drifting into unconcsiousness. He was NOT “intelligently defending himself” which is what the rules say.
he was waaaaay too late and IMO ref’s should be reprimanded when they make a mistake just as fighters get in shit if they go outside the rules. part of his pay should go to Munoz hairdresser so he/she can get treated for the blindness they use when they cut his hair! LOL
but really, it was way to late and I for one, agree with the masses that say it was a very dangerous mistake.
You and the “masses” are going to force refs to make calls too early. Then you will all bitch about that.
They already make calls way too early. Wish Rosenthal was reffing Silva/Sonnen because that was nothing compared to the beating Munoz was taking.
Agree completely.
It takes a real man to admit to a large number of people that he was wrong in an act that was performed also in front of a large number of people. Gives me a ton of respect for the guy.
+1
Now let’s hope he won’t jump in way too fast next time.
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pretty commendable if you ask me, i’ve never heard of a ref ever owning up to his mistakes and shit. I think he’s got some character to actually come out and say that. more then mccarthy miragliotta or mazzagati would do oh and kim winslow lol
Fedor sucks
How about you stop caving in the sleeping dude’s head? Refs and judges in UFC are awful, but the fighters are responsible too. I’ve seen many fighters tell the judges that the other guy is out, while the judge stands there idiotically. Bad reffing of a green fighter.
this. but they prolly goin all out killa instinct..
That elbow split him, but he got his face splattered with those extra shots… took about an extra 4 or 5 after he was out THASSSNOGOOD
I thought it was about three punches too late but thats better than 3 punches to early IMO, and I reckon most fighters would rather take a couple extra shots than have a fight end early.
good to see someone taking responsibility for their actions too, its not often that a ref will stand up and admit he was wrong so kudos to Rosenthal for looking at it objectively and admiting he needs to do better next time.
We needed this ref when Anderson was putting the beat down on Chael. about 5 good strikes to early imo.
Haha you really wanted Sonnen to suffer huh? I wanted him to be punished too, but in the end I’m happy he’s not hurt too bad.
I never wish real harm to fighters. I know I said before I wished Anderson would tear his arm off, but that was more to annoy Sonnen’s fanboys.
It NEVER annoyed any Sonnen American loving badass fans. It just made us think you are a psychopath…
Maybe I am…
If he would have stopped it early there would have been people bitching to. You cant win as a ref unless chuck liddell is in the ring. He either knocked peoples lights out or got his turned out himself.
Where the hell is Big John when you need him?