Uh....the rules for that fight were made up BEFORE THE FIGHT. The rules they fought under were not the same rules the undercard bouts were under. Did you see one person wearing shin pads and one not in the other fights? no. There was a huge, long article in Black belt about it at the time. Go check it out at the library. Even a magazine that worships Bob Wall had a hard time sounding positive about that mess of a fight.

SEcond, Alexio hit Cikatic out of nowhere. Whether or not the ref had signalled the fighters (and I don't think he did though I haven't seen the fight in years) doesn't make a difference as Cikatic wasn't even turned to Alexio and talking to the ref. Alexio visually reached over the ref to punch Cikatic. Bitch move from a bitch fighter who then had the guts to whine bout it later.

Alexio was frustrated that Cikatic wasn't phased by any of his shots, and Alexio was clearly the better boxer but couldn't do a thing to him despite hitting him about 1,000x (His shots actually somewhat weak and patty against somebody who wasn't picked off the apple picking line). I'm sure it could've gone to an Alexio decision but the rules were screwy, against Cikatic a fight without knees is basically full contact because his low kicking is crap. Anybody who uses this fight as proof that Alexio is capabable under those rules is smoking some serious crack. Cikatic had the luck of knocking Hoost out with his freakishly hard right hand, but against everybody else he always looked like complete shit. Compare Stan's fights with Cikatic to Alexio's fight and tell me who the better guy is. Hoost would've ripped Alexio a new asshole under FC or K-1 style rules, don't make me laugh, and Aerts would send him home pissing blood either way.