Filed under: Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos BRISBANE, Australia – Neil Magny and UFC executive Tom Wright agree Saturday night’s UFC Fight Night 85 co-headlining win over Hector Lombard should have been stopped sooner. “As much as we’re in the sport to win, it’s hard as an individual to put that kind of damage on a guy and not have it stopped,” Magny told MMAjunkie after Saturday’s FOX Sports 1-televised event at Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. “The ref is supposed to be there to protect the fighter, and he wasn’t in a position to protect himself at all, and the ref should have stepped in earlier, I thought.” Wright, the UFC’s managing director for operations in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, echoed Magny’s position that the referee, Steve Perceval, neglected to do his primary job when he failed to wave off the bout after Magny (18-4 MMA, 11-3 UFC) landed dozens of unanswered punches to a grounded Lombard (34-5-1 MMA, 3-3 UFC) in the second round. “We were a lot concerned,” Wright said. “I think Neil said it best: It’s the referee’s job to make sure the fight is stopped if the athlete can’t protect himself or herself. And I’m sitting not quite as close as the referee was, but I thought that fight should have been stopped, and it should have been stopped a long time before.” The UFC Fight Night 85 co-headliner took a wild swing in momentum after Lombard nearly stopped – and quite possibly should have stopped – a hurt Magny in the first round
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Neil Magny, Tom Wright thought Magny’s win over Lombard should’ve been stopped earlier – MMA Junkie