TORONTO – UFC President Dana White was blown away by Brian Ortega ’s heart in a fourth-round TKO loss to featherweight champion Max Holloway at UFC 231. White also is glad the fight was stopped when it was. “I wanted them to stop that fight going into the fifth round,” White told reporters after Holloway’s title defense in Saturday’s pay-per-view headliner from Scotiabank Arena. “I was hoping that either the referee or the corner was going to stop that fight.” Related UFC 231 results: Max Holloway overwhelms Brian Ortega in gritty, gutsy title fight Twitter reacts to Max Holloway's destruction of Brian Ortega to defend title at UFC 231 As it turned out, it was the doctor who ultimately made the call not to allow Ortega to continue after a brutal fourth round in which he absorbed 134 significant strikes, according to UFC stats provider Fight Metric
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