Thanks and respect to de Andrade corner for stoppage and MY GOD THIS PET…
Fighter’s health too often suffers as athletes, coaches, and referees all have incentives to not stop a fight.
Fighters are game by selection – the best possess a will to win greater than the will to live. Referees must impossibly balance a fighter’s livelihood against his health, in a hurting game. And corners are often functionally employees of the fighter, and adopt the same, dangerous attitude towards ending a fight. As a consequence, fighters’ health too often suffers.
Thus when a fighter’s corner stops a fight, it should be applauded. That happened at UFC 232.
Bantamweight Petr Yan battered Douglas Silva de Andrade, drawing comparisons with a prime Fedor:
https://twitter.com/BigMarcel24/status/1079047656654204928
And then Silva de Andrade’s corner made the extremely difficult but necessary decision to stop the fight.
https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1079192026812301312
So respect to the corner.
And monster respect to ‘No Mercy’, who is now 12-1, on a six-fight win streak, three in the UFC with the sole loss of his career avenged, and giving every appearance of having the potential to be the next big thing.