Dana White is deeply unhappy with some of the refereeing seen at UFC 251 on Saturday night.
The UFC president criticized the stoppage in the bantamweight title fight between Petr Yan and Jose Aldo. Yan stopped the Brazilian legend in the fifth round of their bout for the vacant 135-pound title.
The ending of the contest came after Aldo took many unanswered shots in turtle position while Yan pounded away on top. Aldo was covering up, but was doing very little to improve his position while he a received nonstop stream of punches and elbows and Aldo’s blood stained the mat a deep red.
The official stoppage of the fight came at the 3:24 mark of round five, but White thinks the stoppage should have came much sooner....
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Dana White on referee stoppage in Petr Yan's win over Jose Aldo: 'Horrible, horrible'
Dana White not happy with how long the ending of Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo dragged out.
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