i saw that before! ye i remember rofl! when i read the title, i didn't believe it until i saw it, damn...! the ref fucked up big time lmao!!

if i was the ref, even if i have 0 experience i would stop the fight!! maybe the fighter was his friend!

I really don't get what you guys are going on about... first, Kristie didn't "win" anything. He was attempting a submission, and the bell rang before the ref stopped it, so it's irrelevant whether or not he was out. Second, you even have reporters out there getting choked out for the heck of it, and you think a professional fighter can't bounce right back off one to keep fighting? It's not like he got a concussion. Even 4-minute-long chokes have disputed long-term effects, never mind seconds (yeap, just looked it up). Bottom line, he was deemed fit to continue a fight he had not lost, and medically speaking, rightly so. So much so that he won. Even winning you guys question the ref and the doc? C'mon...

What's "classy" about accusing a fellow forum member, who joined and donated to the forum some three years ago, of being a "troll", just because he happened to read this thread and, honestly surprised by the consensus he encountered, chose to disagree with it, albeit passionately and maybe with excessive familiarity, regardless of it being his first post, as he's not one for introduction formalities?

I definitely advise a measure of introspection from anyone who thinks my post was "trollish". They might find they incur in overzealousness and hypersensitivity. Personally, I feel aggravated by that childish accusation, and hold you as the proper "troll" here.

As for actual arguments as to why the fight should've been stopped (as opposed to knee-jerk preconceptions, common to unusual situations), I'm still open to them, as trolls obviously are, if I am one.