joined Helwani as a guest<\/a> and discussed the rationale for going to the videotape.<\/p>\n“First of all, I’m certain that the right decision was made,” Herb Dean began. “What I saw was at the end, got caught in a rear-naked choke, he was palm-to-palm grip. I believe it was after the clapper, the 10-second clapper, but it was right at the end. was giving it everything he’s got because he’s got the opportunity.”<\/p>\n
Herb Dean on Stoppage<\/p>\n
From there, the arbiter mentioned what happened as he called a halt to the proceedings Saturday night.<\/p>\n
“There was a fraction of a second where he held onto the choke,” he said. “Because of that, I wasn’t exactly sure I wanted to make sure I saw what happened and when things happened, so I went and looked at a replay. That’s not the new replay we’ve had for that situation. We’ve had the ability to do that replay for a long time in the rules because it was a fight-ending situation.”<\/p>\n
Herb Dean Watches Playback of Submission During Helwani Interview<\/p>\n
Ariel Helwani then ran the highlight of the finish twice, once with the full broadcast audio and once without, affording Herb Dean the opportunity to break down the film of the submission with Helwani and his viewing audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I see that he’s going after the rear-naked choke,” Dean continued. “I’m like, ‘Man, you don’t much time to get this,’ but he goes straight to it, has it locked in. As we’re getting close to the end, I’m thinking that the bell’s going to sound and I’m going to have to fight hands.”<\/p>\n
Dean mentioned that he wants to examine a contestant’s body in the event of a potential rear-naked choke submission.<\/p>\n
“The hands and often the legs are what’s going to give you your clue that someone’s out, whereas looking at their face won’t,” he explained. “As it’s time for me to stop the fight, of course, I’m looking at his hands because I’m trying to figure out which grips he has and what I might have to fight if he’s not letting go instantly.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referee Herb Dean called for a review of the finish of the Adriano Moraes vs. Phumi Nkuta fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[111610,42843,49,3335,48,641,638,248757,250006,82],"class_list":["post-681095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-adriano-moraes","tag-ariel-helwani","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-mvp-mma-1-results-rousey-vs-carano","tag-phumi-nkuta","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}