Do you actually believe this was unintentional?

[fractal]

Virtually identical

Because they are both black?

 

[Clark Rogers]

Fighters should wear goggles.

And to avoid blood clouding those up, goggles need to have wipers.

Problem solved.

 

[IDGETKTFO]

Because they are both black?

Because they both setup eye pokes with a kick.
You sound racist.

 

[egk]

Agreed! I doubt he was trying to rake Tom's eyes, but he knew having his fingers out there would either prevent Tom from coming forward, or if he did, he'd get poked and then Gane could play innocent.

I can't even believe there are people who think this was remotely unintentional.

It's like running towards someone with a knife and saying oh but I didn't mean to stab them.

Obviously it was a poke but Gane's fingers were vertical, not horizontal, which is legal. It's like a straight arm in football. It was just unfortunate the fingers landed on the eyelids. If he had been just an inch or so higher he would have been pushing against Tom's forehead and nobody would have said a thing about it.

 

[fractal]

Fighters should wear goggles.

And to avoid blood clouding those up, goggles need to have wipers.

Problem solved.

The easiest solution is the simplest one.

Poke someone, they get to poke you back.
Nut kick, get kicked back.

1 point deduction for every foul sounds uneven. This way, no one can complain anyone had an advantage.

 

[Substance Abuse]

All the front page has proven since Saturday is that MMA fans hate MMA fighters.

 

[Aurelian]

The easiest solution is the simplest one.

Poke someone, they get to poke you back.
Nut kick, get kicked back.

1 point deduction for every foul sounds uneven. This way, no one can complain anyone had an advantage.

In Muay Thai when you throw certain kicks (like Gane did) it's taught to frame your hand out there for defense purposes on what can come back to you. This was an accident. He was performing a martial arts technique.

 

[fractal]

Obviously it was a poke but Gane's fingers were vertical, not horizontal, which is legal. It's like a straight arm in football. It was just unfortunate the fingers landed on the eyelids. If he had been just an inch or so higher he would have been pushing against Tom's forehead and nobody would have said a thing about it.

Dude his fingers were literally angled towards Tom's eyes. Yes it wasn't on a 0 degree plane.

Having it an angle, gives you the ability to poke, and stop them with your palm. You couldn't make it more intentional.

 

[TITS]

You know you can just ignore the thread, just saying...

I can ignore you too, spammer.

 

[fractal]

All the front page has proven since Saturday is that MMA fans hate MMA fighters.

Well it's the only sport (combat sport) where most fans never tried the sport, making it very easy to criticize those who have.

 

[fractal]

I can ignore you too, spammer.

Hahaha spammer...you're the first one to call me that.

Just look at your post count vs mine, it's not rocket science.

 

[Aurelian]

Ok that's it. We should ban Muay Thai from the sport. We should watch limited martial arts instead of mixed martial arts. We'll call it LMA from now on.

 

[CobraCobretti]

Someone post a gif of Gane takedown defence. Spoiler: main technique was also an eyepoke.

 

[TITS]

Hahaha spammer...you're the first one to call me that.

Just look at your post count vs mine, it's not rocket science.

I'm not posting stuff that's been posted a million times in 3 days. You know there's already a bunch of threads on this subject, you can see them.

 

[fractal]

In Muay Thai when you throw certain kicks (like Gane did) it's taught to frame your hand out there for defense purposes on what can come back to you. This was an accident. He was performing a martial arts technique.

From what I know, framing is meant to throw your opponent off center. Not too stick your fingers out when kicking them. But always looking to learn new techniques. Are there any videos online of Gane's framing style?

 

[mkess101]

Ok that's it. We should ban Muay Thai from the sport. We should watch limited martial arts instead of mixed martial arts. We'll call it LMA from now on.

How weird that there's guys who are successful and Muy Thai is their background and they DON'T eye poke their opponents!

 

[goOb]

Hands were never closed, fingers pointing like daggers and shit. In the stand up you're in a fist fight until a takedown is initiated. Cyril had no reason to have his hand opened like that. I think if you poke someone in the eye the offending fingers should be removed.

 

[Aurelian]

How weird that there's guys who are successful and Muy Thai is their background and they DON'T eye poke their opponents!

It's a technique that's taught on certain types of kicks. Are we really shocked a Muay Thai fighter uses a technique in Muay Thai?

 

[fractal]

I'm not posting stuff that's been posted a million times in 3 days. You know there's already a bunch of threads on this subject, you can see them.

I didn't see one with this a gif as clear as this. But hey if you can find it, feel free to link it here and I'll ask a mod to merge the thread.

If not, you know what to do.

 

[Ibm]

Gane does that, he has his hands out, bad luck. No one wins here, sucks for everyone. I don't think anything was intentional. Gane was winning and he was confident he was going to win.