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“What everybody’s not looking at is, they all look and say, ‘Oh, that’s unfair to Chris Weidman,'” McCarthy told MMAjunkie Radio. “In a way, it kind of is to a point. But no, it’s unfair to Gegard Mousasi. Mousasi is the guy that got screwed over, except for the ending. Because Mousasi does things that are all legal for him to do, and he hurts – we’ll say – Chris, because Chris is going to say, ‘I’m hurt.’
“And if you’re going to say, ‘I’m hurt,’ I’m going to say, ‘OK, you’re hurt.’ He did it legally. And now they’re taking him away from you to hurt you more, and giving you time to recover from something that was legal. That’s bad. That’s the bad part.”
Now on to Miragliotta: While McCarthy agrees that he made a mistake, he thinks it was a highly understandable one given positioning, the quick decision process and the fact that, unlike the commentators, he only got to see it once – from one angle. (He also clarified that Miragliotta is a great guy, a great referee and his glorious tan is all-natural – none of that baking yourself in a bed nonsense. You know, in case you were wondering.)
“When that happened, I’m sitting there, and I have a different angle,” McCarthy said. “If you go back and you look, and this is what happens and this is why people go, ‘The referee is the close one. He sees it.’ Everything is depending upon your placement and your positioning. He’s in a position where he’s starting to move and the fighters start to move, because if you look at it, Weidman had had Mousasi in a mount, and then Mousasi rolls out of it and comes up, and then Weidman gets down.
“Mousasi has his head down, and Weidman goes and puts his hand on the ground in a way that is not part of what we’re going to say is a grounded fighter, because we want fighters to get away from what they’re doing. In that situation, we want (to say), ‘Chris Weidman, put your knee to the ground. Use your hands to defend yourself. That’s what they’re there for.'”
Clearly unhappy with Weidman’s hand usage, McCarthy went further into the meaning of what exactly constitutes a grounded fighter in the state of New York. And, unless you want to risk having “your head upper-cutted into the first row” by using your hands to achieve that purpose, he offers some advice.
“If you’re on your feet and you wanted to make yourself grounded by putting your hands down, you would have to put both hands, palms down or fist down baring weight to make yourself grounded,” McCarthy said. “So what I’m telling you is, ‘Don’t ever (expletive) do that.’
“Only if you fall to that point, that’s the only time I want to see that.We did that in putting that rule in place because we didn’t want someone that was hurt falling forward, and have a guy be able to come up and soccer kick or punt them to the face.
“The rule has been working beautifully everywhere. It’s hard for athletic commission people to understand, because how many fights do they do? But I do fights every week, multiple times a week, everywhere. And it’s been freaking awesome. We’ve gotten guys to get away from doing this stupid thing of putting one hand down and thinking they’re safe. It’s changed what they’re doing.”
“Chris is in a point where he doesn’t understand it the way he needs to understand it – and he puts his fingertips down to the ground,” McCarthy said. “Fingertips do not make you grounded. And in the position that I was at, I couldn’t see his one hand, but I could see his hand with his fingertips. So I as soon as Dan called it, I said, ‘That was legal.’ And then Dan came over, I throw to him, and I say, ‘Dan, he said ‘Did you see it?” I said ‘Yes. It’s legal. What he did was legal. You need to tell Chris that if he stays with what he’s doing, he’s going to lose this fight by TKO.’
“Chris’ corner is telling him, ‘Chris, you have time. Chris, stay down.’ They’re milking something for their fighter, and I don’t blame them. And Chris is listening to them. Chris is as tough an individual as you’re going to get. He’s an incredible athlete, and he’s an incredible fighter, but he’s in the midst of this. He knows he got hit, but he has his corner telling him this. What’s he going to do? He’s going to start following what his corner is saying.
“So when they bring their ringside physician in and the physician talks to Chris, he says ‘What month is it?’ And Chris says ‘February.’ Now, does he do it on purpose, or does he do it because he really doesn’t know? We can’t say, but right away, when they came back and say, ‘Hey, that’s good,’ he said, ‘Hey, it’s April 8.’ He knew the date right away. All right, he’s trying to play a game with it a little bit, we’ll say. But he played himself into a loss. And that’s what other fighters need to look at too. ”
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“And if you’re going to say, ‘I’m hurt,’ I’m going to say, ‘OK, you’re hurt.’ He did it legally. And now they’re taking him away from you to hurt you more, and giving you time to recover from something that was legal. That’s bad. That’s the bad part.”
Now on to Miragliotta: While McCarthy agrees that he made a mistake, he thinks it was a highly understandable one given positioning, the quick decision process and the fact that, unlike the commentators, he only got to see it once – from one angle. (He also clarified that Miragliotta is a great guy, a great referee and his glorious tan is all-natural – none of that baking yourself in a bed nonsense. You know, in case you were wondering.)
“When that happened, I’m sitting there, and I have a different angle,” McCarthy said. “If you go back and you look, and this is what happens and this is why people go, ‘The referee is the close one. He sees it.’ Everything is depending upon your placement and your positioning. He’s in a position where he’s starting to move and the fighters start to move, because if you look at it, Weidman had had Mousasi in a mount, and then Mousasi rolls out of it and comes up, and then Weidman gets down.
“Mousasi has his head down, and Weidman goes and puts his hand on the ground in a way that is not part of what we’re going to say is a grounded fighter, because we want fighters to get away from what they’re doing. In that situation, we want (to say), ‘Chris Weidman, put your knee to the ground. Use your hands to defend yourself. That’s what they’re there for.'”
Clearly unhappy with Weidman’s hand usage, McCarthy went further into the meaning of what exactly constitutes a grounded fighter in the state of New York. And, unless you want to risk having “your head upper-cutted into the first row” by using your hands to achieve that purpose, he offers some advice.
“If you’re on your feet and you wanted to make yourself grounded by putting your hands down, you would have to put both hands, palms down or fist down baring weight to make yourself grounded,” McCarthy said. “So what I’m telling you is, ‘Don’t ever (expletive) do that.’
“Only if you fall to that point, that’s the only time I want to see that.We did that in putting that rule in place because we didn’t want someone that was hurt falling forward, and have a guy be able to come up and soccer kick or punt them to the face.
“The rule has been working beautifully everywhere. It’s hard for athletic commission people to understand, because how many fights do they do? But I do fights every week, multiple times a week, everywhere. And it’s been freaking awesome. We’ve gotten guys to get away from doing this stupid thing of putting one hand down and thinking they’re safe. It’s changed what they’re doing.”
“Chris is in a point where he doesn’t understand it the way he needs to understand it – and he puts his fingertips down to the ground,” McCarthy said. “Fingertips do not make you grounded. And in the position that I was at, I couldn’t see his one hand, but I could see his hand with his fingertips. So I as soon as Dan called it, I said, ‘That was legal.’ And then Dan came over, I throw to him, and I say, ‘Dan, he said ‘Did you see it?” I said ‘Yes. It’s legal. What he did was legal. You need to tell Chris that if he stays with what he’s doing, he’s going to lose this fight by TKO.’
“Chris’ corner is telling him, ‘Chris, you have time. Chris, stay down.’ They’re milking something for their fighter, and I don’t blame them. And Chris is listening to them. Chris is as tough an individual as you’re going to get. He’s an incredible athlete, and he’s an incredible fighter, but he’s in the midst of this. He knows he got hit, but he has his corner telling him this. What’s he going to do? He’s going to start following what his corner is saying.
“So when they bring their ringside physician in and the physician talks to Chris, he says ‘What month is it?’ And Chris says ‘February.’ Now, does he do it on purpose, or does he do it because he really doesn’t know? We can’t say, but right away, when they came back and say, ‘Hey, that’s good,’ he said, ‘Hey, it’s April 8.’ He knew the date right away. All right, he’s trying to play a game with it a little bit, we’ll say. But he played himself into a loss. And that’s what other fighters need to look at too. ”
More:
http://mmajunkie.com/2017/04/sit-do...school-you-on-the-mousasi-weidman-controversy
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