Ref Marc Goddard weighs on his late stoppage in UFC 204's Perry-Roberts bout
- from MMA Junkie on Oct 10, 2016
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Marc Goddard has heard your many complaints about his performance at this past weekend’s UFC 204 event.
On Sunday the veteran referee posted a series of tweets following his officiating of a preliminary-card bout at Saturday’s UFC 204 event at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
In the final minute of the featured UFC Fight Pass prelim – after three rounds of hard-hitting back-and-forth action – Mike Perry (9-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC) finally delivered a fight-ending knee on welterweight Danny Roberts (13-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC). However, with Roberts clearly done, Perry unloaded some clearly unneeded followup shots before Goddard finally, and mercifully, waved off the bout.
Immediately after the bout, Goddard was bombarded with complaints on social media. However, those cries of late stoppage didn’t fall on deaf ears, and on Sunday, the former pro fighter, who now officiates major events across the globe, weighed in.
While admitting many of the messages were “personal and insulting,” he said the complaints were justified.
“No one alive is more self critical, self analytical and a harsher reviewer of me than me,” he wrote. Additionally, he said “my upmost priority, my heartfelt duty is to protect the fighters” and that “it breaks my heart to think a fighter has incurred even one shot they shouldn’t have.”
“Last night presented me with an instance that in truth in any other night on earth I’m acting sooner and that’s the truth,” he added. “Thank you all.”
Here’s the full series of posts (via Twitter):
For complete coverage UFC 204, check out the UFC Events section of the site.
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