According to Drew Dober, his bout with Manuel Torres at UFC Mexico City ought to have been called off sooner.
As Torres was delivering hammerfist blows, Dober was fallen and clinging to his leg. The pundits on the show demanded that the battle be stopped, but the referee allowed Dober to endure a number of needless blows.
After being able to witness the fight, Dober now claims that since he was no longer present, the fight ought to have ended after the first few hammerfists.
“If you watch, technically when you want to finish the takedown, you want your grip above your opponent’s knee,” Dober said to MMAFighting. “I was shooting for a takedown and after the first or second hammer fist, you see my grip just drop below his knee to like a low single. I don’t ever do that takedown so that was not a productive movement. So if you want to rewatch that film, the moment my grip goes below his knee, that was when the fight should have been stopped… The reason I was hanging onto his leg is because I was no longer there. It was a good stoppage. My willingness to fight just transcends my mind…
“For my health, I think it could have been stopped earlier but I don’t cast blame on the referee because he’s trying to do his job,” Dober said. “He told me in the locker room that he knows the way I fight. He knows the damage I can take. He’s going to give me every opportunity to improve my position. Really the person to blame for the later stoppage is the fact that my body just kept fighting regardless of my mind being absent.”
Ultimately, the ref stopped the fight 1:45 into the fight, which was Dober’s third-straight defeat.
Drew Dober says he will take some time off to recuperate following his defeat against Manuel Torres at UFC Mexico City.
Dober said he wants to be completely well because he understands he sustained some required damage during the fight.
“I will take time off. I’m about to see a neurologist on Friday about the status of my head. I’m wearing these blue-light glasses. I just got done doing a hyperbaric chamber. I’m doing everything I possibly can to make sure that my brain heals correctly and properly before I get back in the frame,” Dober said. “As far as my health goes, I feel fine. We’re just going to try to make sure that we don’t do anymore additional damage in training.”
As a professional, Drew Dober is currently 27-15, one NC, and coming off consecutive knockout defeats. So far, Dober has lost four knockouts.
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