Joe Rogan Reacts to Ankalaev vs. Cutelaba Stoppage

There was a really bad stoppage this past weekend in the UFC. Really bad. Really bad. That gets so much controversy, huh? This one was a bad one. It was the worst stoppage I've ever seen. There was this guy... Pull up the... You can find it in the UFC's... I've got to remember how to say this guy's name. Why did he claim he stopped the fight? Well, the referee... I don't want to call the referee out. There's no need to. Everybody knows who it is. He's a nice guy. He fucked up. Referees fuck up sometimes. He thought the guy was hurt. And he wasn't hurt. He was faking it. Okay, so... The Magomed... Ankalev... Jesus. I think that's how you say it. And I forget I say Kudabella's first name. I think it's Eon. I think it's Eon Kudabella. It's like Eon. So Kudabella was playing possum. If you watch the video... You can see the video. It looks like he's playing possum. See? He's pretending that he's hurt. See? He got hit for sure. But look how he's woggling his head back and forth. He's trying to sucker him in for that right hand. He's trying to pretend that he's hurt. And then throw that right hand. And the referee stops the fight while he's throwing punches. But look at him. As soon as the referee stops the fight, he's like, I'm fine. What the fuck are you doing? That's not a guy who's rocked. If you watch it again, you can see that he definitely is getting hit. But you can also see that... Like when he... Like that? That's fake. That's wobbly with the head. Well, because he's throwing those haymakers after it. He's trying to lure the guy into thinking that he's so hurt that he can't control himself. And he's trying to throw haymakers. But he's also definitely getting hit too. So I could see how the referee fell for it. But you got to let guys fight. You got to let guys fight. And sometimes referees in the interest of the fighter, trying to save a guy from damage. They step in and they make a mistake. That's an easy mistake to make. Because it is a really bad stoppage. But because the fact that he was faking like he was hurt. But he wasn't faking like he was hurt enough to stop a fight. No, it didn't look like it. When a guy's swinging back with big wild haymakers, he can win at any time. Yeah, I do. Right? I mean, we've seen that in a lot of fights. A few of those look fucking brutal. I mean, there's been many, many fights where you see a guy win a fight that he's getting dominated. Because he catches a guy who gets over Zellis and tries to finish him off. That's what we got robbed of. The referee fucked up. Or the, you know, the referee... I mean, he fucked up. But he also was a little bit tricked by this guy trying to lure this guy in by pretending and then exploding. Right. He didn't look like... But even if the guy was really that rocked, it wasn't enough to stop the fight. That guy was throwing back. He was defending himself. He was moving back with his hands up and he's throwing the fight. You know, the fight just doesn't end when someone gets hit. Right. Like, no, the fight ends when you can't protect yourself anymore. When it was defenseless. Yeah. He was not defenseless. He was very defen... He was very dangerous still. That was a bummer to watch. That's one of those things where... Real bad. Well, you feel bad for the guy. He fucked up a little bit. He's not a, you know... The referee's not a bad guy. He just fucked up. And then the fighter, you got to think, that guy trained for months for that moment. And he's trying to sucker this guy in. I mean, maybe he's got this thing that he does. Is he Russian? Pretends like he's hurt. I don't know where Kudabel is from. Is that refs going to die for sure? If he's Russian, that ref's dead. Ref's dead in a month. I don't think it's a corruption thing. I think that's just a mistake. Yeah. It's fucking hard, man. Dova. Moldova. Moldova. Moldova. Moldova. It's a fucking hard job, man. You're in there, these dudes are throwing their fucking knees in each other's faces. Right. And head kicking each other. And it's just you. Yes. You're the only... That's the other thing. Other sports have many refs. You're the only one, dude. And you're all on edge and shit. When do I stop it? When do I stop it? Fuck that. Yeah. Yeah, the pressure isn't saying so many other sports can rely on other referees to go, oh shit, I think we fucked up or I fucked up. This one is like, it's this dude. That was a bad call. Yeah, that was a bad call. But... It happens. It's a hard gig, Santino. It's a tough gig to do.