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Brendan Schaub wishes second blow to knocked out Mirko Cro Cop never happened at UFC 128
Mar 25, 2011 - 2:20:59 PM Brendan Schaub wishes second blow to knocked out Mirko Cro Cop never happened at UFC 128

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

Brendan Schaub's knockout win over Mirko Cro Cop at UFC 128 drew a little criticism due to what many felt was an unnecessary blow delivered after the knockout strike and before referee Herb Dean could step in.

Now that he's had a chance to look back at the fight, Schaub can see where the criticism comes in, and says he wishes Dean could have gotten to him a little sooner.

"In the heat of the moment, and you're fighting a guy like Mirko Cro Cop, when I hit him I saw him go limp and he started to get back up," Schaub said in an interview with MMAWeekly.com. "Now that's not a guy you want to get back up, that guy's a monster. So, I better get another one in. The other thing too, I don't stop until the ref pulls me off. It's one of those things you don't stop until Herb gets in."

"I wish it never happened, I wish Herb had got there faster so it didn't happen. I'm not the guy who looks to hurt a guy when he's down and out like that at all. That is something I wish had never happened."

The win, Schaub's fourth in a row, positions him to move up the ladder once again in the heavyweight division. But still, though he feels justified in fighting until the referee pulled him off, he felt bad about the extra blow delivered to an idol of his in the sport.

"When I saw it in slow motion, I was like 'aww man' cause literally Cro Cop's my favorite," Schaub said.

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Penick's Analysis: The final punch was certainly not necessary, and at that level when a fighter goes down like Cro Cop did with that punch you would hope that the opponent would notice they are out on the way down, but in the heat of the moment sometimes it just isn't the case. Schaub didn't really do anything wrong, as he fought until Dean got to him, but it was definitely an unfortunately unnecessary extra shot after the knockout blow.