{"id":9113,"date":"2023-12-04T15:41:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=9113"},"modified":"2023-12-04T15:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:41:43","slug":"dana-white-condemns-referee-decision-at-ufc-fight-night-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/04\/dana-white-condemns-referee-decision-at-ufc-fight-night-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Condemns Referee Decision at UFC Fight Night in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dana White expressed strong criticism of the delayed stoppage during UFC Fight Night in Austin, calling it &#8220;one of the worst I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221; As the CEO and president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), White&#8217;s net worth was estimated at $500 million in August 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Kerry Hatley faced widespread backlash for allowing Jalin Turner to continue striking Bobby Green, who was unable to defend himself on the canvas. Dana White acknowledged Hatley&#8217;s mistake, stating that he does not feel good about it and deeming it a &#8220;definitely bad stoppage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the controversy, Bobby Green managed to leave the Octagon without assistance and later congratulated Turner on the win in a social media post. Turner, acknowledging the situation, considered whether the fight should be stopped but also expressed concern about Green potentially recovering.<\/p>\n<p>Former fighters, including Michael Bisping and Daniel Cormier, criticized Hatley&#8217;s decision. Michael Bisping called it &#8220;disgusting&#8221; and emphasized the potential impact on fighters&#8217; lives and long-term health. Daniel Cormier labeled it &#8220;one of the absolute worst stoppages in MMA history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UFC lightweight Chase Hooper deemed it &#8220;brutal,&#8221; emphasizing that Green was unable to intelligently defend himself, and Dustin Poirier described it as a &#8220;horrible stoppage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other bouts, Arman Tsarukyan declared his ambition to become a champion after securing a first-round knockout against Beneil Dariush in the main event, expressing confidence that he is a top-five fighter and anticipating a title fight in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana White expressed strong criticism of the delayed stoppage during UFC Fight Night in Austin, calling it &#8220;one of the worst I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221; As the CEO and president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), White&#8217;s net worth was estimated at $500 million in August 2019. Referee Kerry Hatley faced widespread backlash for allowing Jalin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,1],"tags":[427],"class_list":["post-9113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-ufc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9249,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions\/9249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}