Latest on Carwin/Lesnar fight aftermath

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But you won't hear any complaints from Carwin, who eventually suffered a submission loss in the following round.

Rosenthal, of course, walked a very tight line during the main-event fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. He didn't want Lesnar to absorb unnecessary punishment, but he also didn't want to halt a still-competitive fight.

UFC president Dana White and Lesnar have praised the ref's performance.

But what about Carwin, who lost the most by Rosenthal's decision to let the fight continue?

"I felt Brock go out a few times," he today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) via text message. "But it is the ref's job to call the fight, and mine is to finish the fight."

Carwin, of course, came oh-so close to doing just that. According to CompuStrike.com, he landed 57 first-round blows, 47 of which were ground shots that came after he dazed Lesnar with an early uppercut. As blood poured from his face and Lesnar struggled to defend and improve his position, Rosenthal nearly halted the fight on more than one occasion.

Lesnar, though, survived. And by the second round, Carwin was slowed by what he described as a "whole-body cramp" that took his legs out from under him.

[tn94z]

Re: Latest on Carwin/Lesnar fight aftermath

I am pretty sure that he did hurt Lesnar. It looked like he scared the crap out of Lesnar when he caught him with that first upper cut. It was pretty obvious that (even though he took many shots) Lesnar does not want to be hit in the face. If Carwin could have opened up the arms and landed a few more to the face, we may be having a different conversation today. But it didn't.

Personally, I think that the ref did an amazing job in this fight!! Too many times a fight gets stopped too early and this was a good example.

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Re: Latest on Carwin/Lesnar fight aftermath

[QUOTE I felt Brock go out a few times," he today told MMAjunkie.com via text message. "But it is the ref's job to call the fight, and mine is to finish the fight."
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See this is were carwin is a bitter fighter now. I didnt see at anytime brock go out, for carwin to say this now he is bitter because his punches werent doing the job and he got weaker and weaker after every shot and like I said he's not the fighter that everyone thinks.Everyone talks about carwin this and that but he couldnt even go 2 rounds his cardio sucked so bad and he's supposed to be a great fighter,bull shit If he felt like brock went out a few times that just means that carwin couldnt finish brock with his so called powerful punches. You go look at some of carwins fights and then you tell me how many fighters had there gaurd down when carwin connected thats how his punches connected there gaurd was down. Carwin is a bitter fighter now because he was the favorite and everyone had him winning and he couldnt finish the job. Brock finished the job

As blood poured from his face

Give me a fuk'n break as blood poured from his face, he had a little cut. God damn media makes this shit out to be so much worse

[tn94z]

Re: Latest on Carwin/Lesnar fight aftermath

He was bleeding pretty good but I wouldn't say it was pouring out