White: Andrade vs. Sexton should have been stopped

Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos III may come to be seen as a turning point in mixed martial arts. With the growing awareness around head trauma in contact sports, the deciding factor in whether a fight should be stopped is not whether a fighter can fight on, but whether a fighter should.

“I’m a guy who’s been around the sport for a long time, and boxing, and seen men who are too tough for their own good,” said UFC president Dana White after UFC 166. “And I think Junior dos Santos is one of those guys, in the last Cain fight and in this Cain fight. And I think that fight should’ve been stopped. I just don’t think he needed to take anymore punishment… I wanted to throw in the towel.”

While White as the promoter cannot control the referees and judges, who are appointed by government bodies, he never the less has a major influence in the sport. And just one week after Velasquez vs. JDS, he has again said that a fight went on too long, following Jessica Andrade’s one sided decision over Rosi Sexton.

“I agree 100 percent that fight should have been stopped,” said White as transcribed by MMAJunkie. “It’s a fight like that that made me (in the past) not like women’s MMA, actually. I saw a very one-sided, mismatched fight.”

“It’s one of those fights that looked good on paper, and then in reality it was a horrible, one-sided mismatch. And it should have been stopped. I said what we should do is bring the ref out in the hallway and let someone punch him in the face for 15 minutes, and nobody jump in to help him, just to see what it feels like.”

What do you think UG? Just because a fighter can take more punishment, does that mean a fighter should take more punishment. We tap out in the gym all day every day to avoid long-term damage. Does that mentality need to work its way into the cage now?