Strikeforce 'Houston' Results: Bobby Lashley Upset by Chad Griggs at End of Second Round

he was never really well hidden in the first place.

Lashley doesn’t have the heart of a fighter. He wanted to quit the moment he got the cut.

I have to agree, Lashley looked “defeated” or tired coming out for the second round. He just looked like he didn’t want to be there.

..the moment anyone with a winning record is posed as an opponent.

That really was bullshit not giving Bobby that position back.

If anything, he needs to go down a weight class before his spine collapses from more bulking up.

Griggs has only had two fights since 2007 I bet he is up for a rematch :D

Seriously, where does Griggs get off doing something like that.

Be that as it may be you still don’t stand a fight up from a dominant position like mount like that. Of course Schorle has a history of being a bad ref in boxing and MMA.

Lost in the post-event excitement that a truly great fight breeds — never mind the upset special delivered by Mackens Semerzier — is the horrific job that referee Jon Schorle did in officiating the Dave Jansen-Rich Crunkilton fight. Completely missing a blatant (albeit inadvertent) knee to Crunkilton’s groin — to which he reacted visually and audibly — was bad enough on its own. However, with the fight on the line in the third round, Schorle saw fit to repeatedly stand Jansen up from top control instantaneously, as the unbeaten lightweight prospect was trying to steal the round and the fight. For the last half of the final stanza, the eventually victorious Jansen fought both Crunkilton and the inane whims of Schorle.

But this is not an op-ed about an isolated incident in which Referee X did his unwitting best to ruin a fight. It’s not even just about the act of refereeing itself. People reacted to Schorle’s mishandling as if he were a local misfit referee who just cropped up that evening. Media reports used the name “Jon Schorle” without a sense of context. The commentary booth, including an increasingly agitated Frank Mir, referred to him only by the disparaging title of “this referee.”

If you’re a boxing fan, you’ll be dismayed to find out that Schorle, a Californian-based official now splitting time in Texas, was the referee who stood by while Vic Darchinyan beat Victor Burgos until he had a blood clot in his brain, resulting in emergency surgery and an induced coma following the bout. He was the third man in the ring for Vitali Klitschko beating hapless Corrie Sanders to a pulp. He oversaw the Erik Morales-Zahir Raheem bout — which he allowed to devolve into a clinch-filled slip-and-slide on a soaked canvas — as well as Joel Casamayor-Michael Katsidis, in which a thrilling bout was compromised by Schorle’s all-around inattentiveness. Schorle’s reputation is such that before the rubber match in his epic trilogy with Rafael Marquez, Israel Vazquez’s camp fought viciously and successfully to have Schorle removed as the bout’s referee and replaced with Pat Russell. These are just a few recent examples.

Despite allowing complete free-for-alls in the boxing ring, Schorle’s M.O. in MMA is usually far more conservative. Typically, he’s keen to stop any fight on the floor in which the fighter in top position lands two or three lukewarm punches, such as Frank Edgar-Mark Bocek or Tyson Griffin-Duane Ludwig. Often times it won’t even take that much, as in his blown stoppage of the first Jared Hamman-Poai Suganuma bout. No less dangerous with a scorecard in hand, he was one of the unfortunate judges — the other being the legendarily egregious Dalby Shirley — who scored the Patrick Cote-Chris Leben bout for “The Crippler.”

However, Schorle’s most infamous MMA moment came in the March 2006 quasi-snuff film that was Rob McCullough-Olaf Alfonso. Just moments into the second round, McCullough landed a crushing right cross that sent Alfonso’s mouthguard airborne. As the supine Olaf lay on the mat with a predatory foe above him, Schorle took a cursory glance at Alfonso’s eyes — which are glassy and googly even at his most lucid — and then walked across the cage to retrieve the mouthguard. McCullough took the chance to land three absolute killshots on the defenseless Alfonso, as the miserably out-of-position Schorle made a mad dash to stop McCullough from pureeing Olaf’s face.

Don’t think that I intend this article as a hit piece on Schorle, and don’t confuse my critique of the referee with an attack on the person. I bring up his prior bad acts to emphasize the question of how an official can get away with such consistently awful officiating in well-publicized debacles and not only be rewarded with plum assignments, but also remain unscathed and unnoticed by fans and media. Schorle is not just a liability as an official that I wanted to single out, but his position is symptomatic of larger problems with the discourse surrounding officiating in MMA — problems we’re all accessories to.

http://www.sherdog.com/news/r/Officiating-amp-Sunlights-Disinfecting-Properties-20312

That’s what folks are missing here. It was after the stand-up for inactivity that the ref had the eye looked over.

Legit restart.