{"id":102275,"date":"2014-06-23T08:27:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=102275"},"modified":"2022-02-06T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T18:00:19","slug":"john-mccarthy-thinks-jason-highs-punishment-was-too-harsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/john-mccarthy-thinks-jason-highs-punishment-was-too-harsh\/","title":{"rendered":"John McCarthy Thinks Jason High&#8217;s Punishment Was Too Harsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/referee-john-mccarthy-has-choice-words-for-nsac-director-keith-kizer\/big-john-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69930\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/big-john.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"big john\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/big-john.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/big-john-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/big-john-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Veteran referee Big John McCarthy spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1pr4Scw%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submission Radio<\/a> to talk about Jason High&#8217;s release from the UFC after he shoved referee Kevin Mulhall out of frustration for what he believed, was an early stoppage.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Absolutely there has to be varying degrees of punishment, but it has to be a punishment that is, you know, it evenly matches the crime, and the crime was pretty minimal.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Jason put his hands on Kevin and kinda pushed him away. It was wrong. To be taken out of the UFC &#8211; I understand what Dana White is doing and I&#8217;m not saying, you know, Dana is, he&#8217;s slamming his foot down, going don&#8217;t do that, you&#8217;re embarrassing me, you&#8217;re embarrassing my promotion, you&#8217;re embarrassing the sport, I can&#8217;t have that. Now the question is, if Jon Jones would have done the same thing, would he have kicked Jon Jones out of the UFC? He wouldn&#8217;t have. Now I understand why, I&#8217;m not saying that he should, but Jason got punished in a harsh fashion. Now on top of, you know Dana removing him from the UFC, the New Mexico State Athletic commission has, you know suspended him for 1 year. That&#8217;s one year of time that he cannot make a living fighting. That&#8217;s a lot. You know, you&#8217;re having people take away your ability to make a living, based on one act&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Sometimes we as human beings, we do things off of emotion that we normally wouldn&#8217;t do.&#8221; &#8220;Do I think he should have been punished? Yes. He should have had his hand slapped, he should have gotten, you know a five-month suspension, he should have been fined, we&#8217;ll say twenty-five hundred, five thousand dollars. That&#8217;s gonna hurt him, he&#8217;s gonna feel it, but I think that overall Jason got treated very harshly for what happened.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do you think PENNation? Was High&#8217;s punishment too harsh? 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