{"id":309448,"date":"2019-04-11T08:49:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=309448"},"modified":"2019-04-11T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:49:15","slug":"herb-dean-defends-ben-askren-vs-robbie-lawler-stoppage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/herb-dean-defends-ben-askren-vs-robbie-lawler-stoppage\/","title":{"rendered":"Herb Dean defends Ben Askren vs. Robbie Lawler stoppage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the most anticipated features of the UFC 235 bill was a welterweight showdown between former UFC champ Robbie Lawler and former ONE and Bellator champ Ben Askren. Regrettably, this bout ended in controversy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mid-way through the first round, Askren locked up a bulldog choke that appeared to lull Lawler to sleep. After referee Herb Dean stopped the action, however, Lawler protested, and the replay revealed that he might not have actually gone out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on the latest episode of the Joe Rogan Experience MMA Show, Herb Dean defended his decision to stop this Robbie Lawler vs. Ben Askren fight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Herb Dean Defends His Askren\/Lawler Stoppage | Joe Rogan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zluc6q88APo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When I see some chokes, a rear-naked choke, especially with the guy on the back face up, I take a sigh of relief,\u201d Dean said (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2019\/4\/11\/18305652\/ufc-referee-herb-dean-defends-ben-askren-vs-robbie-lawler-stoppage-ufc-235-mma-news\">Bloody Elbow<\/a>). \u201cMy job just got so much easier. It\u2019s not like he\u2019s gonna go out and in a second, take some extreme amount of damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe may go out, I\u2019ll have a second to make sure \u2013 not even a second \u2013 a half a breath, to make sure he\u2019s OK. And then let it go out and he\u2019s not gonna take any other damage. A bulldog choke \u2013 anytime you have a choke where there\u2019s pressure on the neck and to see the spine&nbsp;backwards&nbsp;like that, that\u2019s a&nbsp;rough&nbsp;situation for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo I see someone go limp, and I know that on top of it, they\u2019re no longer putting tension on their neck, and their neck is just being bent, I can\u2019t see that I should do something different than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith that same situation with the arm going limp with that type of a choke on someone, I would think the arm should be doing something else. At this time, I don\u2019t think that I should do something different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did you think of the stoppage in the UFC 235 fight between Ben Askren and Robbie Lawler? Where do you stand on the issue after hearing this explanation from Herb Dean? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;on 4\/11\/2019.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most anticipated features of the UFC 235 bill was a welterweight showdown between former UFC champ Robbie Lawler and former ONE and Bellator champ Ben Askren. Regrettably, this bout ended in controversy. Mid-way through the first round, Askren locked up a bulldog choke that appeared to lull Lawler to sleep. 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