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It always interests me to see everyone jump on hardline stances to a thing like this.
Check this out. It will help some of you if you aren't too stubborn to accept it:
There is a GRAY AREA within which either decision is acceptable and within the referees split second judgement.
This was in that range.
If he let it go the next few seconds either Aljo survives or gets hurt again and he stops it then, and that would have been OK.
Or
He stops it when he did, Aljo had been dropped and eaten a few decent followups (many many fights have been stopped on the knockdown alone) he seems to be turning his back (though he seemed to be trying to get up) and turning your back on an attacking opponent is frowned upon.
Either way was within the RANGE of where it falls to the judges discretion.
It was neither a perfect stoppage nor a horrible stoppage. It was an OK stoppage.
Fights are chaotic.
It ain't always gonna be perfect.
Ref made a call and thats what it is.
Good take.
Was it an egregiously bad stoppage? No.
Was it an inarguable perfect stoppage? No.
It’s right there where letting it go a little longer would have been reasonable but stopping it was not unfathomable. While “questionable” carries a negative connotation, I think it’s fair to say in that there’s a reasonable argument to be made both ways. Taking a hardline stance shows a stubbornness and unwillingness to consider opinions at odds with your own in my opinion.