But Alex was in a perfect position to land even more punches. Before falling to ground, Jiri already ate bunch of elbows and hammer fists. Ref did his job perfectly imho. I dont think that Jiri would do much on the ground; besides Pereira was in full mount.
Yeah, but those kind of elbows/hammers are not usually very powerful and have no KO power. Jiri did fall on his back but was not out and had his hands up, all he needed to do is to hug Alex or grab his head to buy himself enough time to recover. But if Prochazka himself agrees with the decision, then I'm happy to accept it.
Elbows and hammers were not that made main damage. Just rewind few second back. Jiri was concentrated during whole fight, he was active and aggressive. But before that TKO, he accelerated with both hands down (curious why he even do that? was he angry because Pereira kept distance and threw lots of low or calf kicks and pissed Jiri?), and was quickly punished for that. That is what is called skill. Pereira saw it and quickly unloaded hooks from both hands. Due to close distance, they did not KO Jiri immediately. He was already dazed after that, and those elbows and hammers just increased his brain lag
The body acted automatically, but that was sort of a standing knockdown.