While fighters are always advised to tap when they find themselves caught in a submission, those athletes can generally count on a referee to save them if things go wrong. That wasn’t the case this past weekend in one of the most egregious non-stoppages in recent memory. It’s obvious the referee isn’t doing a job when cornermen have to jump the cage and break up a submission themselves. It happened in a women’s MMA fight earlier this year, and it happened again this past weekend in a fight between Silmar “Sombra” Nunes and Caio “Paturi” Robson Silva under Brazil’s Capanema Fight Combat banner. This time, it was even worse (via Twitter ): CFC: Silmar Sombra vencia o Paturi por Finalização, quando o octógono foi invadido por um membro da equipe do Paturi e agrediu Sombra pic.twitter.com/QuZBvKOcJw — PANCADANTE (@pancadante) September 25, 2017 Prior to the controversy, the fight looked like any other. Nunes (35-12-1) eventually found an opening to jump on a guillotine choke, which he successfully locked in tightly around Robson Silva’s (11-9) neck
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