I re-watched the fight. Ghita has a tatoo on his lower arm. I didn`t saw any evident swelling. However, the referee was an idiot. That being said, I do not think that he lost due to the arm injury. In my view Ghita made 2 mistakes: 1) the strategy of the fight seemed flawed from the beginning. In my view they wanted to bar the punches of Saki and catch him on the counter. Ghita tried that a couple of times with crosses without success. Saki was too fast. 2) He was way more static than in the first fight. This was a mistake against a fast opponent. He should have not let Saki approach him by hard low and middle kicks and front kicks. Also, he should have used the knee when Saki was close. Notice the height difference between the two. The knee would have been an easy and dangerous weapon. Instead, what happened is that he let Saki approach him, and tried to counter him when exiting. However, he ate some big punches which wobbled him. Saki saw that and attacked again with punches but this time without exiting. In the first fight I believe Ghita`s strategy was better. Maybe Saki was not so prepared also.
Bottom line, if a taller opponent lets the obviously faster smaller and lighter opponent approach him, he will get caught in the end.
