Chase Hooper on controversial UFC St. Louis stoppage: ‘It was either a panic tap or an unintentional one’

Chase Hooper doesn’t know whether Viacheslav Borshchev tapped or not, but he doesn’t much care either.

This past Saturday, Hooper faced Borshchev in the featured prelim of UFC St. Louis, scoring a second-round submission victory in one of the best performances of his career. Despite Hooper’s excellent showing, the finish was controversial, as “Slava Claus” immediately protested the stoppage and told referee Keith Peterson that he had not tapped.