Look – I don’t pretend to know anything about fighting, martial arts, UFC, etc. But holy shit I have come to find out that I LOVE the UFC. There’s two reasons why the UFC is awesome:
- Losing money by betting on the favorite (without fail every time you bet the favorite he will get upset)
- Late stoppages
There is nothing on earth better than watching a good-ole-fashioned LATE UFC stoppage. If you didn’t have the privilege of seeing this below video shared by ESPN then go ahead and fasten your seat belt before you hit that play button.
How many pieces came with this combo?! 🤯 #DWCS pic.twitter.com/JmkqKgKPim
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) August 26, 2020
OH MY GOD. How many seconds did you get into the video until you thought you’d see him hit the canvas? I don’t want to sound like Karen Rovell, but I was positive he was about to land on his back at the 6 second mark. Yet he just stood in there like a CHAMP and kept blocking punches with his face.
And then this absolute psycho just pops up off the mat to congratulate the guy that smashed his face in and tell him “Good fight Jamie. I love you.” WOW. Not to overreact or anything, but if I’m one of the scoring judges then I’m thinking twice before I go awarding this fight to the black guy. Sure the punches landed count is in his favor, but he hasn’t displayed half the heart or resilience of the Samoan guy.
Also – What was it going to take in order for that ref to stop the fight? He apparently has no idea that someone can be upright on their feet and still be in serious medical danger. If that Samoan guy didn’t just lose 5 years off his lifespan then he lost 4. All thanks to that ref who just stood there and watched it as if two kittens were wrestling each other. I guess there was maybe a split second where the ref thought about doing something. You have to look closely around the 9 second mark to see it.
No stoppage!? Just coming in to get a closer look at the action? What exactly did he see that made him say “Ok the Samoan guy still has this under control. I’ll back up.” ?
Was it the way he was playing defense by spraying blood out of his head and onto the black guy in an attempt to blind him? Or did he enjoy the fact that the Samoan guy ditched that pesky mouthguard that was slowing down his reflexes.
Dear lord if this sort of stuff doesn’t get your juices flowing then I don’t know what to tell you. I am ALL IN on the UFC. Might even get myself a TAPOUT shirt.
PS – Hopefully you took my advice and made a little money off Daniel Cormier getting his ass beat.
But more importantly, hopefully you watched that fight and witnessed the funniest conversation in UFC history. At the end of Round 2, Miocic had pummeled Cormier into the corner and was punching him on the side of the head repeatedly. Again – to a novice like me – the fight seemed like it should have been stopped by the ref. Cormier was playing zero defense. Nonetheless, the audience watched Cormier take a flurry of shots while being partially knocked out. Thankfully the horn sounded and Cormier was slow and very wobbly to get to his feet.
OOOOOH! 😱
— UFC (@ufc) August 16, 2020
DC survives Stipe's late RD 2 attack! #UFC252 pic.twitter.com/QFjxoWnLCH
It was at this moment that the microphones picked up the following conversation between Cormier and his corner guy.
DC: (with his eyes closed) “Did I drop? Did I drop?”
Corner guy: (confused why a guy who just stood up off the ground would ask him that) “What??”
Basically Cormier was so fucked up that he had no idea where he was and I think he was asking his corner guy whether he had been knocked out and lost the fight. Apparently in the UFC this type of action still doesn’t prevent your trainer or ref from stopping the fight.