Quote Originally Posted by Rantcatrat View Post
It shouldn't have been stopped. Rios is looking more and more limited as he goes higher in weight. He bodied guys earlier in his career at 135. At 147, he's not having the same effect and he looks slow and one dimensional. He's a dead man walking.
This is what I feel ticked Drakulich off: Chaves didn't need to resort to such nonsense in the fight. If he had stuck to boxing, he was winning the clean exchanges. He had the fight to win.

Drakulich probably sensed, as we did, that this fight was on a slow roll to becoming a fiasco. It didn't look too safe after the fight was called either- I was thinking a brawl would ensure, or something really dreadful.

Drakulich saw the air in the room, during the fight and saw the extent to which Chaves was trying to take it- knowing full well Rios is the kind of fighter that becomes frustrated too and responds to stuff like that- and tried to deflate some of this before it escalated and we all had a fight we really didn't want to see.

Drakulich, even though the fight could have been better, averted a near disaster.