Longtime MMA official and Bellator commentator John McCarthy believes Eddie Alvarez’s disqualification against Iuri Lapicus at ONE on TNT was the product of poorly communicated expectations and overreach from the referee.
McCarthy said Alvarez clearly did not intend to strike Lapicus illegally to the back of the head in the first round of the fight this past Wednesday and should have been warned more clearly before he was disqualified by referee Justin Brown.
McCarthy didn’t mention Brown by name, but indicated the ONE referee fell far short of his duties inside the cage.