Chael Sonnen was going to finish the UFC Tampa major occasion had the physician not.

Simply seconds earlier than the top of the third spherical, the physician obtained known as in to take a look at a nasty lower above Covington’s eye. The physician ended up stopping the combat which Dana White didn’t suppose would have occurred had the combat been in Las Vegas. Nonetheless, Covington’s new coach, Sonnen mentioned he noticed how dangerous the lower was and was about to throw within the towel.

“Colby was getting hit on his ft with all the pieces you could possibly do,” Sonnen mentioned on his YouTube channel about Colby Covington. “”I imply, he’s busted open so dangerous that the physician has to take a look at it thrice. Twice, he stops the motion to let it preserve going. The third time, he goes, ‘We are able to’t preserve going anymore.’ I used to be going to cease that combat. I already grabbed the towel. When the physician got here in for the third time, and I’m watching that blood,  it’s not stopping. It’s going into the attention, and that’s the one factor you’re actually searching for.

Chael Sonnen was going to throw the towel in for Colby Covington

“Once we as combat followers, we as powerful guys, suppose the physician ought to’ve stopped it, we’re speaking about it doesn’t actually matter how dangerous the lower is from our perspective, so long as it’s not going within the eye,” Sonnen continued. “If it’s blinding the man, it doesn’t matter if it’s a little bit or so much. If it’s in his eye and he can now not see out of that eye, it’s the identical factor. It’s the very same factor. If this a lot blood, a flood of blood nonetheless stops you from seeing. This was dangerous, and it was within the eye. I actually, I stood up so I may see what the Physician was doing. I instructed Charlie the quantity two, and I mentioned ‘Hand me that towel, I’m stopping this.’”

Sonnen says the ref and physician did the appropriate factor in stopping the combat because the lower above Covington’s eye was dangerous and hindered his imaginative and prescient.

With the loss to Joquin Buckley, Colby Covington fell to 17-5 as a professional.