Does anyone on the East Coast actually stay up until 1AM to watch these fights? No idea why the UFC runs them so late.
I actually feel asleep during the 4th round of the last night. These Fight Night cards are often a struggle for me to keep awake for unless it's a real intriguing main event.Does anyone on the East Coast actually stay up until 1AM to watch these fights? No idea why the UFC runs them so late.
She was taking ungodly amounts of punishment and wasn't intelligently defending herself, Yammasaki HAS to stop the fight. For Christ's sake watch the end of the fight where she's getting freaking pummeled while that idiot just stands there and watched. If Shevchenko didn't decide to show mercy and choke her out instead we may have had our first fatality in UFC.I believe it's on the ref to intervene in a fight when a fighter is in serious trouble and unable to defend themselves. At no point did it appear as though Cachoeira was in real danger for a prolonged period of time. Yes, there were short spurts, but she seemed to maintain her composure throughout the fight
If you want to blame someone, how about Cachoeira's corner for not throwing in the towel when their fighter was in over her head?
She was taking ungodly amounts of punishment and wasn't intelligently defending herself, Yammasaki HAS to stop the fight. For Christ's sake watch the end of the fight where she's getting freaking pummeled while that idiot just stands there and watched. If Shevchenko didn't decide to show mercy and choke her out instead we may have had our first fatality in UFC.
You must've been watching a different fight. I saw a fighter who was getting pummeled who could not defend herself. For God's sake watch the end of the fight where she is just eating punches on the ground with no defense whatsoever. It was like watching the type of travesty you would see in PRIDE. I'd be willing to bet any amount of money if say Big John were the ref he stops that fight long before it actually was.
I was fine with the fight continuing. Yes, it was a beating. It's MMA, that happens sometimes.
I think if it was a men's fight people wouldn't have thought too much of it.
Terrible matchmaklng though. There's a reason Brazilian can-crushers usually used to get 20 wins before the UFC called.
When is the last time a corner has thrown in the towel during a UFC fight?
When is the last time a corner has thrown in the towel during a UFC fight?
Yamasaki's faults were
1) Missing the taps twice at the end
2) giving zero warning to Cachoeira to improve her position or fighting back. It's not so much the beating that was bad. it's 200+ unanswered shots. Can't just shell up and do nothing but staying conscious. Good refs tend to give auditory sign of when they'll step in when a heavy pounding is occurring. A silence from the ref just means there's no urge to get out of that pounding position as long x fighter is conscious.
Yamasaki says he did, and when he did, she would move. So, I dunno.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he's not culpable here but aside from missing the tap, I was fine with it overall. I think more blame should be pointed at her corner for not throwing in the towel (I don't GAF about her not wanting her corner to throw it in), and the UFC for making this fight in the first place. IMO, Yamasaki, her corner and Dana/Sean Shelby each take 33.3% here.
You really think Dana White has anything to do with booking a mid-card fight on a Fight Night card in Brazil? This one's on Shelby, who I think does the matchmaking for all of the women's divisions.
Against one of the UFC's best female fighters? Absolutely. And yes, Shelby does the matchmaking but let's say Dana had no clue who Cachoeira was (which I highly doubt), then he still needs to shut up on social media and stop trying to deflect the horrible decision his guys made to make this fight in the first place.
I saw one post on Twitter where he praised his fighter and ripped the ref. Really stretching here to go after Dana White.