Dana rips on Mario Yamasaki for letting Shevchenko/Cachoeira go too long

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MovinOn

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Dana has shat all over refs numerous times. Tonight he went in on Yamasaki for letting Cachoeira take a prolonged beating. It was definitely one-sided but should it have been stopped sooner?

Fuck Dana or fuck Mario?

Priscilla Cachoeira, you showed so much heart and toughness in that fight. I’m honored to have you fight in the UFC. Unfortunately the ref is there to protect you and Mario DID NOT do that. This isn’t his first disgusting performance in the octagon. Another unfortunate thing is that i can’t do anything about I️t only the Brazilian commission can and i am hoping after this scary, incompetent showing he hopefully will never set foot in that Octagon again. Strikes landed was 230-3.


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MMAHAWK

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Fight could have been stopped at a few different times. Her corner should have never let her off the stool after the first round.
 

dacofty

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Dana and the amateurs at the ufc are to blame, this poor girl should never have been booked against the bullet.
 

Coast

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Dana and the amateurs at the ufc are to blame, this poor girl should never have been booked against the bullet.
Came here to say that.

It's a bit hypocritical to blame the ref for the beating when it was the matchmaking equivalent of a Lion v Lamb. The ref could have stopped it earlier, her corner should have stopped it earlier, and the fight should never have been made in the first place.
 

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Came here to say that.

It's a bit hypocritical to blame the ref for the beating when it was the matchmaking equivalent of a Lion v Lamb. The ref could have stopped it earlier, her corner should have stopped it earlier, and the fight should never have been made in the first place.
The girl was 10-0 and its a new division. The current champ is 4-2 so should the UFC just strip her and give the belt to Shevchenko so she doesnt get hurt? Nobody would be complaining if the ref had done his job properly.
 

Papi Chingon

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The ref can't be blamed for not stopping it sooner, considering these were 125lb girls, and there were no devestating moments of the fight. The accumulation of blows may be the issue here, but a KO was nowhere to be seen with the short punches and elbows, again, from a 125lb girl. The corner is more to blame than anyone, if indeed this was considered a late stoppage. It was a one sided fight, no doubt, but the ufc knew this in putting a fighter with zero ufc experience in against valentina. Nice way to shift blame.
 

Joemacka

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The ref can't be blamed for not stopping it sooner, considering these were 125lb girls, and there were no devestating moments of the fight. The accumulation of blows may be the issue here, but a KO was nowhere to be seen with the short punches and elbows, again, from a 125lb girl. The corner is more to blame than anyone, if indeed this was considered a late stoppage. It was a one sided fight, no doubt, but the ufc knew this in putting a fighter with zero ufc experience in against valentina. Nice way to shift blame.
The champion has no ufc experience either.
 

Joemacka

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And will suffer a similar fate if placed in the cage with valentina
Valentina is gonna do that to most girls she fights to be fair. I just dont think the matchmaking can be blamed here. Who else at 125 should she have fought because imo she would have done that to pretty much everyone currently at 125.
 

Papi Chingon

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Valentina is gonna do that to most girls she fights to be fair. I just dont think the matchmaking can be blamed here. Who else at 125 should she have fought because imo she would have done that to pretty much everyone currently at 125.
I don't pay attention to WMMA enough to answer that question. However, seeing her fights with nunes let me know that she was a complete badass. Now that she is 10 lbs lighter, I see her steamroll in whoever is in that division. It's too bad this fight wasn't against paige.
 

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The girl was 10-0 and its a new division. The current champ is 4-2 so should the UFC just strip her and give the belt to Shevchenko so she doesnt get hurt? Nobody would be complaining if the ref had done his job properly.
She was 8-0 as a pro but has only fought regional level competition and has less than 2 years fight experience.

Valentino has had 18 MMA fights, 2 boxing fights, and 58 kickboxing fights in a career spanning 15 years and is regarded as one of the best WMMA fighters in the world.

Sorry, but I don't think Dana gets stand there and criticise Mario with his Holier Than Thou attitude when the UFC knew fine well they were throwing a lamb to the slaughter.
 

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She was 8-0 as a pro but has only fought regional level competition and has less than 2 years fight experience.

Valentino has had 18 MMA fights, 2 boxing fights, and 58 kickboxing fights in a career spanning 15 years and is regarded as one of the best WMMA fighters in the world.

Sorry, but I don't think Dana gets stand there and criticise Mario with his Holier Than Thou attitude when the UFC knew fine well they were throwing a lamb to the slaughter.
Then who should she have fought? Because Valentina has more fight experience than basically every girl on the roster by a wide margin.
 

Coast

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Then who should she have fought? Because Valentina has more fight experience than basically every girl on the roster by a wide margin.
I'm not criticising the fight, mismatches happen all the time and to be honest, I like watching a complete arse kicking every now again.

I'm saying its not fair to lay all the blame at Mario's door.
 

madmav

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bad match making is more the issue here than the late stoppage..imo
dana as usual covering his ass but throwing anyone and everyone else under the bus if it makes him look good. it was a one sided beat down and bloody but the Brazilian chick was game, tough and in her home country.. Mario gave her a fighting chance that most if not all fighters would expect regardless..
 

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Mario has a long history of this, I call him Mr.Nonchalant because he looks like he's half asleep in there.

Mario is the new upgraded version of Cecil Peoples.
 

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Dana has shat all over refs numerous times. Tonight he went in on Yamasaki for letting Cachoeira take a prolonged beating. It was definitely one-sided but should it have been stopped sooner?

Fuck Dana or fuck Mario?

Priscilla Cachoeira, you showed so much heart and toughness in that fight. I’m honored to have you fight in the UFC. Unfortunately the ref is there to protect you and Mario DID NOT do that. This isn’t his first disgusting performance in the octagon. Another unfortunate thing is that i can’t do anything about I️t only the Brazilian commission can and i am hoping after this scary, incompetent showing he hopefully will never set foot in that Octagon again. Strikes landed was 230-3.


View: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bew4_FBHJJ2/?taken-by=danawhite


what about not matching them up in the first place? :D
 

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Mario has a long history of this, I call him Mr.Nonchalant because he looks like he's half asleep in there.

Mario is the new upgraded version of Cecil Peoples.
Don't even make jokes about it ffs ... he might actually become the upgraded Cecil Peoples FOR REAL!!
 
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She was 8-0 as a pro but has only fought regional level competition and has less than 2 years fight experience.

Valentino has had 18 MMA fights, 2 boxing fights, and 58 kickboxing fights in a career spanning 15 years and is regarded as one of the best WMMA fighters in the world.

Sorry, but I don't think Dana gets stand there and criticise Mario with his Holier Than Thou attitude when the UFC knew fine well they were throwing a lamb to the slaughter.
It is up to the commission not to sanction the fight in this case, then. It's happened before in Sweden - the Swedish commission didn't think that the UFC fighters were evenly matched enough and told the UFC that they wouldn't sanction the fight. Alternate opponents were subsequently found.
 

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it looked bad, because of a hairline cut, and those bleed all over. And it was a one-sided ass-kicking. But despite the one-sided-ness and blood, she was blocking punches and moving to escape. There was a moment where she was trying to get up, rolling to her left and posting on her left, and she ate ~3 solid shots to the face. At that moment, I thought "getting punched in the face is not intelligently defending yourself". But she gave up the position, went back to blocking/dodging punches under mount, then gave up the back and got choked.

She got hit a lot, but as soon as Mario moved in to stop the fight from her getting punched, she gave up position and went back to intelligently defending herself.

I'm the first to jump on refs for late or questionable stoppages, but this one just looked bad - it wasn't a bad stoppage. Dana is probably pissed because it was a free fight on the Saturday before the Super Bowl. There's a lot of people getting drinks at sports bars last night, and they all watched a brutal beatdown of a female. Not everybody is ready to see that.
 

Coast

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It is up to the commission not to sanction the fight in this case, then. It's happened before in Sweden - the Swedish commission didn't think that the UFC fighters were evenly matched enough and told the UFC that they wouldn't sanction the fight. Alternate opponents were subsequently found.
Its just another figure in the equation. The commission could have stopped the fight, the UFC could not have made the fight, Mario could have stopped it earlier, her corner could have thrown the towel in.

At the end of the day, I think it looked a lot worse than it was. In Mario's defence it must be difficult to know when to stop ,when the strikes are not hard and the other girl is trying to stay in the fight in front of her home crowd.