If you can tap to strikes, you can be trying to defend the strikes.
No fighter should make decisions with their health based on what I think, I'm a fan who doesn't have to live with the consequences. It just looks weak to me and I think the reason is that being aware enough to tap means you're able to defend.So the point is to go on until you CAN'T defend? That mentality is stupid.
Sherdog does not allow either last time i checked
You don't tap in street fights and yes both can lead to disfigurements but that's not my point. The ref is there to protect you in an MMA bout, it's common sense to tap to a submission in the cage especially after seeing a Mir or Palhares fight. Tapping to strikes on the other hand is just not being able to improve your position and not relying on the competency of the ref. If you get put in a submission in a street fight then that's a completely different ball game, whoever you're fighting isn't gonna stop breaking your limb because you've tapped, when they let go is completely at their discretion.If someone has you in a submission in a street fight they can just as easily keep it locked in when you tap or say you've had enough; I've seen it happen, so that's not exactly a good example. And being repeatedly punched and kicked in the head can most certainly lead to disfigurement and much worse. If you're getting pounded into oblivion, you're all sorts of discombobulated to the point that you can't do much but continue taking shots while meagerly covering up, and you don't go unconscious, I don't see anything wrong in the slightest with tapping to strikes. Now if you're pulling a Sapp n' tap, and just tapping at the first sign of danger because you have a fight booked for next week and you want to be extra sure you don't get injured, THEN you're being a little biatch and not trying to fight through anything.
Well, tapping to submissions can be shameful.
When it’s 85lbs girl like the one who tapped TS.
Cutting off oxygen to the brain is always dangerousWhat about tapping to RNC,anaconda etc.
It's all context.
Shogun seemingly tapped to strikes and was given very, very little minimal flack. Cause everybody loves Shogun (sounds like an E reality series about him and his family after he retires).
Joanna seemingly tapped to strikes and she was the butt of many, many jokes because people didn't like her pre-fight trash talk to Rose.
The same action but one was not worth mentioning and the other was a sign of cowardice and weakness. You can't have it both ways.
Tapping to strikes is not a problem at all in my opinion. To me it just means live to fight another day- who knows better than you when you can't come back from the beating you're taking and you are sustaining too much damage. Sometimes it's the more practical and responsible thing to no when to call it.
The thing is, the people who take absolute beatings and don't quite are rightly praised for their toughness so it ends up sort of backfiring because if someone who is getting wrecked and stays in there is praised, it almost implies that somebody in a similar situation who opts out of the fight should be criticized or derided.
And that's simply not the case.
Tap to submissions and there’s no shame but tapping to strikes and you’re on Sherdog’s shit list.
tapping to strikes is the most embarrassing way to lose a fight.
the other fighter basically owns your soul for the remainder of your career.
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Sherdog is retarded. We're the butt of the jokes at every other forum.