@ You've missed the point completely. Nobody was questioning Rousey, NOBODY. But the fact is, Mazagatti stopped the fight without one fighter tapping. It doesn't matter if Rousey won anyway, or if she was about to break D'Alelios arm or what not. If D'Alelio wants to keep fighting until her arm breaks, that's her choice. But Mazagatti can't stop the fight just because Rousey thinks her opponent (verbally) tapped. Imagine every ref would do that in every fight... MMA would be a joke.

And again, this has nothing to do with Rousey. I'm sure she had only good intentions and most probably would have won anyway. It's the referees behavior what bothers most people here.

that was very poor. to make it worse she didn't even have the armlock locked in correctly. D'Alelio's wrist and elbow were in the wrong position.

If she had tapped it would either have been
A) tapping with her hand (which she clearly didn't) or
B) a loud and clear verbal tapping (which she also didn't)
If not even Mazagatti, who was standing right next to them, could hear the "I tap, I tap" than it didn't happen. If you are in pain and want to stop the fight, you don't whisper "I tap".

I think all hope is lost for Mazagatti. If he still makes rookie mistakes like these after all this years, I don't see how he will ever be a really solid and reliable referee.

DA relaxed when Ronda let go the first time showing me that she had tapped

Mazagatti is a horrible ref! HOW MANY CONTROVERSIAL FIGHTS HAS HE BEEN APART OF!? I mean c'mon, fire the guy already! WHY is he still allowed to Ref with all of the past history he has of him being booed. (And even more often lately)

I realize that him being booed is not a determining factor, but when 95% of the crowd boo's in every fight he's called a stoppage to!? I'm sure he's a nice guy too! He hasn't deserved to ref for about the past 5 years or more of bad stoppages that I can recall off hand without researching is just ridiculous!!!

"This f**king guy shouldn't even be watching MMA on TV, let alone refereeing it. I think he's the worst ref in the history of any fight business, ever. He's horrible. We don't pick the refs. The athletic commission does. Those guys are picked by the government. It's not that I don't like him, he's a nice guy. He's an absolute nice guy, he has no business whatsoever being anywhere near mixed martial arts." Dana White back in '09

like dana said, the dude shouldn't even be watching mma much less refereeing... I love Ronda and think she would of pulled it off but damn.....

That sucked! Sorry, but a rev with the experience of Mazagatti should know better than to listen to the "winning" fighter. When they showed his face right before the fight started, I thought he looked a bit stoned....