(James Goyder is the owner/editor of AsianMMA.com)
Stamp Fairtex should be celebrating the biggest win of her MMA career. Instead, she is left with the first loss on her record after tapping out as Alyona Rassohnya worked to secure a guillotine choke with seven seconds remaining in their atomweight fight.
Stamp started celebrating when the referee stopped the fight, apparently under the impression the bell had already sounded. But the round was not over and by tapping once on the Ukrainian’s shoulder, she had clearly admitted defeat.
The Thai was trapped in a guillotine choke, but did not seem in any danger of getting choked unconscious. Only Stamp will know why she decided to tap at that stage, but the 23-year-old was furious when the referee stopped the fight.