Nate Diaz’s cutman explains decision to stop Mike Perry fight

Nate Diaz’s cutman Jacob ‘Stitch’ Duran has explained the decision to stop his fight against Mike Perry last weekend.

At the first MVP MMA event on Saturday night, Nate Diaz went head to head with Mike Perry. While he showed a great deal of spirit for as long as the contest lasted, he was ultimately stopped due to the extreme nature of the cuts he’d suffered at the hands of Platinum.

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Diaz didn’t seem to protest the stoppage and instead, appeared to be quite thankful, mainly because he wasn’t able to see properly because of the blood that was leaking into his eyes. He did, however, make it known that he would be interested in running it back with Perry.

In a recent interview, Diaz’s cutman Jacob ‘Stitch’ Duran had the following to say on why they stopped the bout.

Stitch discusses stopping Diaz/Perry fight

“He ended up with 15 staples, 20 stitches all together,” Duran said in an interview Monday with MMA Junkie Radio. “He was beat up. He was too strong for him. I always look at it as a judge, and at that point, he was getting his ass whooped. Mike was just too strong, too aggressive and he was working him. Then, Nate broke his finger right about here. He said, ‘I couldn’t do nothing.’ The cuts were so big here, it kept pulsating.

“It kept going and then his nose kept bleeding. It was the sign of maybe a broken nose. I told Nate, ‘I’m going to have the doctor stop the fight, man.’ I said, ‘It’s too much blood and you keep bleeding.’ The referee said, ‘Come on, let’s go.’ I said, ‘No, no, no. He’s not going out.'”

“Nate thanked me,” Duran said. “He said, ‘Thanks.’ I said, ‘Of course.’ I was there to take care of him. That was a proper move. The thing about it is he said he couldn’t see. That’s always No. 1. It wasn’t a hard decision to make. … He had blood everywhere. So it wasn’t that hard of a decision to make. My job is to protect the fighter. That’s exactly what I did with Nate. At the end, when we were saying goodbye, he gives me a hug, ‘I love you.’ His dad was there. He thanked me. So of course I did the right thing. No question about it.”

Quotes via MMA Junkie

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