Jiri also admitted it was a fair stoppage but maybe thats the ultra humble samurai spirit thing though. But maybe the ref saw his eyes roll back also? As an Alex fan im happy he won, but there are a few explanations/thoughts i dont like about the stoppage:
1) maybe he wasn't out but if he wasnt he would have taken more punishment and COULD have gotten some real CNS damage. Well, you could say that about a knockdown. Or how about just a headkick that sends a guy reeling. It opens up a litany of hypothetical situations further and further removed ffrom the definition of t/ko
2) let me again state; i am a massive Alex fan. I started watching mma about a month before Anderson vs Leban. Alex is my new Anderson. my pinnacle of MMA. But, this little anecdote from a retired NBA player is always in the back of my head. He played for the clippers, and on a podcast he said "If we were gonna beat the lakers, we'd have to beat them twice(very much paraphrasing) because the Lakers are a beloved American tream, the clippers are the absolute inverse of that. The refs are going to rule harder for the clippers but let certain things slide for the Lakers. "Hell, i didn't want to see the clippers in the play offs AND I PLAYED FOR THEM" he also said. Plenty of instances of retired athletes in MLB NFL NBA (prob nhl too, but i dont watch it) have anecdotal stories of how certain players or teams get preferential treatment because of one reason or another - usually because they are cash cows -all that to say, i hate the idea of refs making short stoppages because the guy on the wining end is better for business. And if that happens in the NBA, and if Shawn Merriman cant tackle LaDainian Tomlinson for business reasons, do you really think it doesnt exist in mma?
1) maybe he wasn't out but if he wasnt he would have taken more punishment and COULD have gotten some real CNS damage. Well, you could say that about a knockdown. Or how about just a headkick that sends a guy reeling. It opens up a litany of hypothetical situations further and further removed ffrom the definition of t/ko
2) let me again state; i am a massive Alex fan. I started watching mma about a month before Anderson vs Leban. Alex is my new Anderson. my pinnacle of MMA. But, this little anecdote from a retired NBA player is always in the back of my head. He played for the clippers, and on a podcast he said "If we were gonna beat the lakers, we'd have to beat them twice(very much paraphrasing) because the Lakers are a beloved American tream, the clippers are the absolute inverse of that. The refs are going to rule harder for the clippers but let certain things slide for the Lakers. "Hell, i didn't want to see the clippers in the play offs AND I PLAYED FOR THEM" he also said. Plenty of instances of retired athletes in MLB NFL NBA (prob nhl too, but i dont watch it) have anecdotal stories of how certain players or teams get preferential treatment because of one reason or another - usually because they are cash cows -all that to say, i hate the idea of refs making short stoppages because the guy on the wining end is better for business. And if that happens in the NBA, and if Shawn Merriman cant tackle LaDainian Tomlinson for business reasons, do you really think it doesnt exist in mma?
