Some applauded the “heart” of JDS after UFC 166, but many were also wondering why they were witnessing one of the closest things to a snuff film on PPV since… Well, forever. It was brutal, somewhat disgusting and I have no interest in watching the fight again. It should’ve been stopped between rounds at the very least, and the blame, you could say, falls squarely on the shoulders of JDS’ cornermen. Yes, there is a familiarity with the doctor, and referee, but it is the cornermen that know JDS the best.
If you dispute this, all you need to know was that JDS thought he was knocked out in the second when he went to the hospital that night. And yeah, he peed out a dark sludge after the second fight. Enough is enough, and Chael Sonnen is extremely disappointed.
“Junior Dos Santos’ cornerman needs to be cut, period,” said Sonnen. “That was beyond inappropriate, that they sent him back out there. The doctor comes in twice, what that doctor was looking for I have no idea. The referee didn’t stop the fight, though he should have. Ultimately it defaults to your cornerman, who you trust, who is like a father figure, and that guy let Junior Dos Santos down, period. The commission licenses these cornermen. I don’t have the foggiest idea why; I guess just to take their $25. That should be the first cornerman that’s suspended, that was beyond wrong what he did.”
“You do not stop the fight when your fighter can no longer continue. You stop the fight when your fighter can no longer win. The second your guy can’t win, you get him out of there. That fight should have been stopped way earlier. It knocked years off Junior’s life and career, that cornerman should be fired.”
