I'm becoming more sensitive to stoppages nowadays!

[TitoFan]

..... and yet people still gush over this.....


Unconscious MMA fighter hit three times after KO - News

[Spicoli]

..... and yet people still gush over this.....


Unconscious MMA fighter hit three times after KO - News

Have never understood that. Look at risk of sounding hypocrite, we as fans have seen arms clearly break or dislocate, guys fight on and be hit with there jaws hanging open, ears literally punched off to the point of hanging there and so many hung up on ropes being bashed..but really one of the most gruesome is a guy clearly unconscious and defenseless with another sitting on his chest punching his skull repeatedly into the canvas. Refs are really a step behind there as physically do mma refs ever sprawl low when guys 'ground and pound'? From stand to stoop isn't much time..but its time enough for follow up shots to get in.

The Aleem v Cepeda fight on the Tuesday pbc card looked very much like a beating you watch through a barely closed palm over your face. Crew and crowd just going crazy over "WHAT A WAR" but Cepeda was being beaten to a pulp for most part. In these type of fights you can feel some twisted sentimental feel take over in a brutal catch 22 and its all wrong. A guys ability to endure a beating is why the crowd boos and you hear "there was only one round left, he could have made it or deserved to". All I was thinking was the kid is being mashed up off of 14 month layoff and the true effects will not be fully known until they bring him back shortly vs another fresher prospect that his style will ensure.

[Gandalf]

I think a fight should be taken to its conclusion and that is why top fighters are paid the money they are. I don't want to see a million Calzaghe type stoppages.

[ykdadamaja]

..... and yet people still gush over this.....


Unconscious MMA fighter hit three times after KO - News

Yea... MMA has issues with this. Really!!

[Master]

I think with age and a near fatality it is human nature to be more sensitive about brutal fights. It is natural.

[ykdadamaja]

I think with age and a near fatality it is human nature to be more sensitive about brutal fights. It is natural.

Maybe. But as someone said earlier on this post, some fights, even when the guy is clearly outclassed but technically "in" the fight, perhaps we should look at that too. But if we start doing that then we take away a good comeback, and some guys may be better down the stretch than in the early rounds.