Tristar Gym head coach and renowned trainer Firas Zahabi is on board with referee Marc Goddard’s stoppage of UFC 281’s headliner between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira. But for Zahabi, Adesanya would’ve been in serious trouble had the fight gone on for a few more moments.
“It was fair. Some refs would’ve let it go longer, some refs would’ve stopped it. I think it was fair, I have no complaints,” Zahabi said in a video he uploaded on his YouTube channel.
“Pereira, he could’ve ended — very possibly — could’ve ended Adesanya’s career if the referee did not intervene.