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March 31, 2025 1:15 pm ET
John McCarthy thinks Manuel Torres vs. Drew Dober at UFC on ESPN 64 was stopped too late.
Torres (16-3 MMA, 4-1 UFC) dropped Dober (27-15 MMA, 13-11 UFC) with a straight proper, adopted by a collection of unanswered hammerfists to score the Round 1 TKO in Saturday’s co-main occasion at Enviornment CDMX in Mexico Metropolis.
Many, together with Torres, took concern with how lengthy it took referee Mike Beltran to wave the struggle off after Dober wasn’t intelligently defending himself. Veteran referee McCarthy acknowledges that it’s robust to gauge typically, however thinks Beltran let Dober take an excessive amount of pointless harm.
“The stoppage was slightly sluggish whenever you take a look at it,” McCarthy mentioned on his “Weighing In” podcast. “It was good, however it was slightly sluggish due to the distinctiveness of what you watched off of the way in which he went down after which the way in which he simply stayed in a single spot consuming 15 pictures that have been laborious and once more, folks suppose, ‘Oh a hammer fist.’
“Hammer fists have energy. I simply don’t know the way to inform you man, don’t let somebody get a free shot on the facet of your noggin with a superb hammer fist as a result of we’ve completed research on all that stuff, and also you’ll get folks capable of throw a hammer fist each bit as laborious as somebody throwing a straight shot.”
McCarthy says Beltran ought to have trusted his preliminary intuition.
“He truly stepped in, after which was like, ‘Oh, acquired to offer him extra of a shot,’” McCarthy mentioned. “It’s like: No, it’s best to have stopped it there. You had the correct learn. However I perceive why he didn’t.”
Dober, who now has misplaced three straight fights, took to X to react to his loss.
“Effectively, that sucked. A fantastically timed one two by Manuel Torres. There’s not a lot to go off of apart from, sadly, stepping in entrance of the rear hand of a protracted energy puncher.
“As a lot as I like Mexico Metropolis, it’s given me two of my most embarrassing losses of my profession, haha. However the meals and individuals are nonetheless the most effective. I’m comfortable and wholesome and excited to be a keep at residence dad for some time.”
Effectively, that sucked. A fantastically timed one two by Manuel Torres. There’s not a lot to go off of apart from, sadly, stepping in entrance of the rear hand of a protracted energy puncher.
— Drew Dober (@DrewDober) March 30, 2025
As a lot as I like Mexico Metropolis, it’s given me two of my most embarrassing losses of my profession, haha. However the meals and individuals are nonetheless the most effective. I’m comfortable and wholesome and excited to be a keep at residence dad for some time.
— Drew Dober (@DrewDober) March 30, 2025
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