Sataki came under fire Saturday for his questionable stoppage in the welterweight contest between Claudio Silva and Danny Roberts at UFC London. In a controversial sequence, Sataki deemed Silva the winner via verbal submission at 2:37 of the third round after Roberts was caught in an armbar attempt. Roberts immediately protested the stoppage and subsequent replays were inconclusive as to whether Roberts said anything in the scramble or made any noise that would constitute a verbal submission.
“The ref stopped it at the time when I escaped,” Roberts said afterward. “I’m just gutted. I was already out of the armbar.