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HTBT for this one.
However, taking a few moments to reflect on what you saw is acceptable. As long as you have not made a call, holding your call does not hurt. It is the lifting wrestler's obligation to return his opponent to the mat safely. Various interpretations of ecxactly what this means but, I train new people to look at elevate and/or accelerate. Was the wrestler who landed hard elevated off the mat and/or acceleratd to the mat? Gravity is a natural force and acceleration would be something faster than gravity would account for. Elevation would be somewhere around waist high. Falls from that height are usually harmless unless there is something else added to the fall; arms trapped, other wrestler on top, etc...
Slams seem to be like stalling for coaches, if the other kid did it then it must have been ...
Since you stopped the match so quickly then you were thinking there was a problem, either slam or injury. In that case your mental review would be to see if it was not a slam rather than if it were. Unless you stopped it for the potential injury.
Whenever I have a match that is starting to get very physical. I stop the match, take them both back to center and remind them that this is wrestling not MMA. This gives them a chance to recover their composure and tempers. The match usually goes along better after that. If it doesn't then the wrestlers and their coaches have a warning that penalties will be coming and they don't get to cry about it.
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