{"id":276492,"date":"2018-05-15T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=276492"},"modified":"2018-05-15T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:49:08","slug":"raquel-penningtons-head-coach-explains-controversial-decision-not-to-stop-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/raquel-pennington\/raquel-penningtons-head-coach-explains-controversial-decision-not-to-stop-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Raquel Pennington’s head coach explains controversial decision not to stop fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raquel Pennington’s shot at Amanda Nunes and the UFC women\u2019s bantamweight title, which headlined the action-packed UFC 224 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last Saturday night, did not go as she had hoped. Instead, the challenger was thumped to a fifth-round stoppage by the dominating champ Nunes.<\/p>\n

Regrettably, Pennington\u2019s failed title bid also accompanied by a sizeable dose of controversy, as she appeared to be forced off the stool by her corner between the fourth and fifth rounds after telling her coaches that she was \u201cdone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking on The MMA Hour<\/a> on Monday, Pennington’s head coach Jason Kutz explained why he encouraged his fighter to return for a fifth round of fighting, rather than stopping the fight, as many felt he should have.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019m going to say is, [it was] the way she said [she was ‘done’], and more importantly, the look in her eye \u2014 that\u2019s what I don\u2019t think people understand,\u201d Kutz said (transcribed by Shaun Al-Shatti for MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cWhen you spend four hours a day doing what she does and doing what we do, I know her. I can read her face like a book. And I know that had she stopped [the fight] right then and there, and I\u2019ve talked to her about this afterward \u2014 like, \u2018Hey, in 10 years when you look back at this, I think you\u2019d be kicking yourself in the pants had you not gone out there.\u2019”<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew it was going to take an extraordinary effort, because she had to stop Amanda. She had to do something huge, right? Something extra ordinary. And if I didn\u2019t think that Raquel could do something extraordinary, then hey, we would\u2019ve went the other way with it. And the thing is, like I said, the mentality of her at that moment, I just felt if she could somehow flip it around and go out there and do something extraordinary, we got a chance. And you know what? She trained her ass off for a long time to get this title shot, and in the fifth round of the title fight, I know her leg hurts, but hey, I thought that she could go out there and go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where do you stand on the controversy that emerged from Raquel Pennington’s fight with Amanda Nunes?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 5\/15\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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