Much has been said about how the main fight on Saturday’s UFC card ended.
In a middleweight fight, Nassourdine Imavov defeated Jared Cannonier in the top account of UFC on ESPN 57, which took place at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
Imavov (14-4 MMA, 6-2 UFC) rocked Cannonier (17-7 MMA, 10-7 UFC) in the fourth round of the contest and then went for the submission. In the process, referee Jason Herzog stopped the fight. Cannonier was injured, but still stood, covered and tried to recover. Cannonier complained about the strike and also many online.
Imavov thinks the right decision was made.
“It’s the referee’s job to decide whether the fighter can continue or not,” Imavov told reporters at the UFC on ESPN 57 post-fight press conference. “He suffered a lot of damage and would have suffered even more if the fight continued, so I think it was the right decision to stop it.”
Imavov is now on a two-fight win streak since his most recent loss, which came at the hands of former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland. Imavov would like to get the fight back and hopes to face Strickland in the UFC’s expected return to Paris in September.
“Sean Strickland is ahead of me and we’ve already fought at light heavyweight, so I’d like to get revenge at middleweight.”
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