The MMA Digest

The stoppage of the Thiago Silva/Karo Parisyan bout looked like a bit of an early one last night. It’s always a difficult job for the referee to make a split second decision, but after careful review after the fact, and 20-20 hindsight, it looks a bit premature. It certainly wasn’t a terrible call, or horribly inaccurate stoppage, but Parisyan has shown extremely solid ability to recover after being rocked. Case in point, when Matt Serra dropped him, mounted him and started raining blows down on the Armenian welterweight, Parisyan hung in there and fought back for the win. Nonetheless, all this info is tough to deduce in a split second which referee Steve Mazzagati had to work with. But at the same time, you can understand Parisyan’s frustration.