The consensus around the MMA Twitterverse was that referee Mario Yamasaki took too long to step in at the end of Derrick Lewis’ second-round knockout finish of Travis Browne on Sunday night at UFC Fight Night 105.
Browne ate about a dozen big punches after being dropped to the mat, the last few of which went undefended and bounced Browne’s head off the canvas at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
And Lewis not only agreed that the stoppage could have happened sooner, but he was thankful that it wasn’t.
Lewis, in his post-fight Octagon interview, intimated that he enjoyed the knockout because of the 2015 allegations of domestic violence against Browne.