Ref should have made a time out for that eye poke but man did the UFC NOT like Stipe at all.The first Stipe fight shouldn’t count anyway. He eyepoked Stipe which led to the KO
He was more or less treated like the socially autistic kid in class who's a bit dim in the head but is actually a firefighter (not that you'd need the intelligence of a PHD recepient to be one)
But the way Stipe was screwed over by the ref in the first and 2nd fight for eye pokes was just
What a shame...only if Stipe had better head movement, he would have avoided taking some fight-ending shots.