Nate Campbell doesn't deserve a No Contest....

If you didn't see anything that showed you Nate wanted to quit, then I would be amazed if you watched the fight. Let alone that... which was obvious... there is a loophole to that rule. The doctor seemed pretty clear in the corner that he was NOT going to stop the fight because of the cut. The doctor only stopped the fight because Nate said that he couldn't see, his vision was blurry, and that he saw spots. In the doctor's opinion... the cut wasn't enough to stop the fight. So Campbell simply quit on his stool by telling the doctor that he couldn't see. That's no different than Campbell telling the Doctor that he had a horrible headache and couldn't continue... they can't just chalk everything up to that cut on the eye being the contributing factor. For all we know a Bradley punch jacked up Campbell's vision... because he was even saying afterwards that he was still seeing spots, and there was CLEARLY NO blood coming down at that point.

 

Going even further you can actually defend the ref's position of ruling it a punch. There was an uppercut landed DIRECTLY after the clash of heads. The ref himself said that there was no blood directly after the clash, so he has to rule on the last thing that he saw which was that right uppercut. That's perfectly acceptable as well. Especially considering that the uppercut also landed BEFORE Campbell pawed at his eye and started complaining.

 

But the doctor didn't stop the fight because of the cut.:good The Doctor stopped the fight because Campbell told him that he couldn't see. There was no blood in his eye when he was telling the doctor this. The doctor even said "Not the cut, are you just telling me that you can't see?" So clearly the ref wasn't stopping the fight based on the cut. That rule isn't cut and dry in that case.

 

It's a sign that there is bleeding behind the eye. However, they can't exactly diagnose that sort of thing in a few seconds. You also can't prove that it is from that cut. Bleeding behind the eye could just as easily be caused by any other punch to the head causing a hemorrhage to that region.

That's the point. If the doctor doesn't think the cut is enough to stop the fight... you can't just throw any other symptom in there and act like it has to be from the cut also.