pistolpete11
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Maybe it's part of the calculus. I don't know. That type of beating can shorten or alter your career though. It's like the saying "live to fight another day". To be fair, they probably didn't think it was going to get as bad as it did in R4, but they still put out there in R5 so...Have to wonder how much 50k bonuses factor into these fighters going on, especially for guys who aren't the high-level earners.. if Kattar calls it after Round 3 he's likely not getting a 50k bonus. Doubt he gets one after Round 4, either. Coincidentally, 50k is pretty close to what his win bonus is so I guess he did end up "winning" financially at least.
The more I think about it, the more I just really put my trust in the referee if you have a guy who has a long history of being a good ref. That's the most important guy in there in these kind of fights.
See, I don't like giving the ref that much responsibility. The ref has enough to worry about. In this instance, I wouldn't have had a problem with it because of the guys involved, but it's easy to envision a scenario where the ref makes a mistake. They make enough errors as is. We don't need to give them something else to think about. As I mentioned above, I think there should be a clear division of responsibility:
The ref should stop a fight if a fighter isn't intelligently defending themselves or taps.
The doctor should stop a fight it it isn't safe for a fighter to continue to fight.
The corner should stop a fight if there is no realistic possibility of their fighter winning the fight.