I'm not saying this is a bad stoppage because it isn't but it wasn't a good stoppage either, when you take into consideration all the factors like the fact it's TJ and a super-fight it should have gone a bit longer and this new clip and audio sort of shows that TJ was still very conscious and aware.
Let me start by saying this was NOT a super-fight.
It has become ridiculous flashy words thrown out there for the dumb public, and repeated so many times people started just using it like it meant something, but not noticing they are helping devalue the true meaning of a super-fight.
Super fights were GSP & Silva while both were dominant champions. Or SIlva & Machida while Machida was also an unbeaten champion.
Or even those that happened. The triangle Hughes, GSP & BJ Penn. Or Chuck & Wandi. Heck, I would even allow Aldo & Farber. THose were super fights!
Heck, super fight could be even a fantasy one, like if Fedor joined the UFC and fought Lesnar (Not even because of Lesnar, whom I don't even consider a full pro-fighter, since he took it more as a hobby) but due to its hype and popularity at the time.
Those are/were super fights!
A champion who just got the belt fighting another one who defended just once, against the guy he already beat.... that's an excuse NOT to put his belt on the line and a chance at a second one... at a division that reportedly the UFC wants to kill. That was all it was.
A scam. A shameful display of greed and selfishness.
And the more ironic part is that Mighty Mouse was right when he claimed TJ had no business fighting for that belt since he never made that cut. I mean, we saw the pics of TJ's weight cut. That was BRUTAL!!! (and a testament to the profissional he is, by making weight!).
TJ was bullied by Cejudo, and that's because he was so dehydrated, he had no way to fight back.
He was done. No matter how conscious and how much he wanted to continue.
He went down 3 times, twice almost face planted and Cejudo was on his face and giving him no space.
He was done. All that was, was his hurt ego crying about something he knows he is wrong about.