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Mario Yamasaki has not refereed a UFC fight since he came under fire for failing to put an end to Valentina Shevchenko’s brutal beatdown of Priscila Cachoeira in February of 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to MMA Fighting<\/a> this week, the veteran referee discussed his hiatus from officiating. While he’s been keen to stay out of the blast radius of UFC President Dana White’s verbal assaults, he say’s he’s now plotting a return to the cage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dI ended up focusing on other jobs and didn\u2019t apply to any athletic commission after that fight because Dana would keep coming after me,\u201d Yamasaki said. \u201cI decided to take a year off to relax and reset. I think I\u2019ll apply to an athletic commission again this year and come back after relaxing for a year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his interview with MMA Fighting, Mario Yamasaki also admitted that he made an error by allowing Shevchenko’s destruction of Cachoeira to go on for so long. He says he could have stopped the fight earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dI think I really could have stopped it earlier,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this controversial fight, Mario Yamasaki issued a lengthy statement<\/a>, explaining that he only wanted to give Cachoeira the opportunity to be a warrior. This comment was not well-received by the MMA community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year after the fact, he says he believes this statement was misunderstood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dI was misinterpreted because, first, I had a public relations that asked me to say that, but it\u2019s not what I really meant,\u201d Yamasaki said. \u201cI told \u2018Pedrita\u2019 in the locker room that I wouldn\u2019t stop the fight if she was defending herself. She moved every time I said I was going to stop the fight, but I really should have stopped it earlier so it wouldn\u2019t have [been] controversial. It was no one else\u2019s fault but me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he prepares to begin officiating again, Mario Yamasaki understands that he might always be remembered for his errors instead of his successes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“People always tend to remember the bad moments. If that\u2019s the case, what can I do? It\u2019s like saying\u00a0Jose Aldo,\u00a0Anderson Silva,\u00a0Vitor Belfort\u00a0\u2014 will people remember him for the kick to the face or his entire career? It depends on who you ask.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article first appeared on <\/em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a> on 1\/28\/2019. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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