Heavyweight prospect Augusto Sakai is glad referee Marc Goddard allowed his fight against Chase Sherman to go a little longer than most pundits would’ve liked at UFC Sao Paulo. In an interview for MMA Fighting, the 27-year-old was actually thankful for the late stoppage to his third-round TKO win.
In Sakai’s opinion, Sherman actually deserved the prolonged beating, because of all the trash talk he needed to put up with before fight night.
“For everything (Sherman) said (before the fight), he deserved that beating in the end,” Sakai said. “But the referee kept telling him to move, and he was gone but would still move, so I think he was correct.