Angela Magana believes her UFC 218 fight was waved off prematurely, because she is a woman.
Magana dropped to a five-fight losing skid when Amanda Cooper stopped her with strikes in the second round. Cooper dominated Magana, an alum of The Ultimate Fighter 20, for the entire duration of the fight, especially on the mat. Cooper had Magana’s back and was landing ground-and-pound when the referee stepped in.
But Magana doesn’t think the stoppage was warranted.
In a series of tweets on Sunday, the strawweight explained that if she was a man, the referee would have let her survive until the end of the round, which was 26 seconds away when Cooper was awarded the win.