Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli View Post
The ref let this devolve into a quintessential clusterfuck of a mess and lost control. I think both fighters were equally to blame...he 'warned' Rios about eight times and there was no clear authority figure in there but rather a scattered lil ol' lady waving a broom around trying to break up drunk uncles in the backyard. He tried to play catch up at the end and repair missed calls, half hearted "hey knock it offs" and lack of official clear warnings and called DQ because he had walked himself into irrelevance and made it personal.
Drak could have done nothing to prevent this from boiling over. Both were committed to be what they were last night... reminds me of the Richard Steele tough assignments he was given over the course of his years.

Looking back at Steele's record, he was given some powder keg's of fights and we blamed him. But it wasn't him. The atmosphere and sentiment around the fight was bigger than anyone could have handled... anyone else would have let some of the same things Steele was involved in turn into all out brawls resulting in deaths.

Can you imagine that numb-nuts Mercante Jr. involved in a Bowe/Golota matchup??