{"id":204674,"date":"2016-09-20T23:24:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T06:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=204674"},"modified":"2016-09-20T23:24:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T06:24:14","slug":"derek-brunson-weighs-controversial-hall-stoppage-dont-really-care-early-stoppage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/derek-brunson\/derek-brunson-weighs-controversial-hall-stoppage-dont-really-care-early-stoppage\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Brunson Weighs in on Controversial Hall Stoppage: “I Don’t Really Care if it’s an Early Stoppage”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, in the co-main event of the UFC’s debut in Hidalgo, Texas, streaking middleweight Derek Brunson<\/a> scored an abrupt TKO win<\/a> over the once-hyped Uriah Hall<\/a>. Yet while this victory was undeniably impressive, many fans and pundits were quick to question the stoppage itself, as Hall seemed to be intelligently defending himself, and none of Brunson’s followup ground-strikes appeared to land.<\/p>\n

On Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour<\/a>, Brunson gave his take on the stoppage. Though he believed it was fair, he said that, in the end,\u00a0it doesn’t really matter to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan, honestly, it doesn\u2019t matter,” Brunson told host Ariel Helwani. “I don\u2019t really care if it\u2019s an early stoppage, late stoppage. I guess if I\u2019m on the opposite end, and let\u2019s say someone dropped me, I guess I would want time to recover. It goes both ways, but as a fighter, you know [if a stoppage was good]. Uriah Hall hasn\u2019t said anything, he hasn\u2019t posted on social media, he hasn\u2019t said anything, cause as a fighter, you know you can\u2019t get caught in those positions. It\u2019s martial arts. It\u2019s about protecting yourself.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Though Brunson admitted he expected referee Herb Dean to give Hall a little more time to recover, he also assures that, as far as he could tell, his opponent had been knocked out.<\/p>\n

\u201cUriah got hit with a big left hand and he was down,\u201d he said. \u201cThe only thing that woke him up, per se, is him hitting the canvas. He dropped, he was out, he was limp.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

“I followed up, I grazed his chin, and I grazed his head, and just looked at him and he was pretty out. Then Herb Dean stepped in the middle, and I was like \u2018what are you doin\u2019 Herb?\u2019 I thought he was going to get more time, so I was gonna posture up and keep punching. But in my opinion, that was a great stoppage cause he was limp, he was out and the fans don\u2019t see every angle.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Derek<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, Brunson explained that, because Hall has not experienced many knockouts in his career, he’s able to recover from them faster. This, Brunson elaborated, could be why it looked like\u00a0he still was able to continue.<\/p>\n

“Uriah Hall hasn\u2019t been knocked out [a lot], so his chin is relatively good, so he can recover faster,” Brunson said. “So he goes out, comes back, and it looks like he was never out. But if he keeps taking those kinds of punches, he would just be out, out. So, he was definitely out, I saw it first hand.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whether the stoppage was early or not, the win\u00a0gave Brunson another big push up the middleweight ladder. He’s now riding five straight wins \u2013 and the four most recent of those wins have been first-round knockouts.<\/p>\n

Who do you want to see Brunson take on next? Sound off, PENN nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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