Fighters letting their opponent off the hook

[Koro_11]

For me the most egregious example of this is Anderson vs Ping. Anderson was half assing it the entire fight, and the one time he actually went for it he separated Ping from consciousness, but then proceeded to do nothing and walked off raising his arms as the final few seconds of the round ticked off. All he needed to do was throw two follow up punches and the ref stops that fight and Anderson get the win, hell Herb almost jumped in there to stop it even without the follow up. Just bizarre, and mind boggling, I don't know what Anderson was thinking there, for such a high IQ fighter this has to be the biggest brain fart of his career (yes even bigger than clowning against Weidman as that can at least be attributed to attempting to bait him as he's done to many others).

Another more recent one is Nate vs Leon Edwards. Not that I ever considered Nate a genius, but he's smart enough to know he was down big on the scorecards and that was the only daylight Leon showed him all night, and it was absolutely his last shot and snatching up a win from the jaws of defeat, but he just stands there pointing and giving Leon precious seconds to recover. I don't know if jumping on him right away would have got him a finish, but now we'll never know. Just lame.

Even more recent is Gane vs Ngannou. So they're tied 2 rounds a piece and it's the fifth. Gane gets Francis to the ground, is now winning the deciding round and has his very dangerous opponent in a position where he's least dangerous, and all he needs to do is maintain top position on a gassed out HW while he himself doesn't need to exert a whole lot of energy to do so, and he's HW champ. So what does this kickboxer decide to do at this point? Well he attempts a leglock, and loses position and spends the final minutes of the fight on the bottom which loses him the round. WTF?? To make matters worse this guy was touted for his fight IQ above all other things.

What are some others?

 

[mirko>anyone]

Heath Herring vs Big Nog

 

[Old Women]

Gilbert Burns vs Kumaru Usman

 

[Koro_11]

Heath Herring vs Big Nog

Yes, and also Big Nog against Frank Mir.

 

[Aldo145]

For me the most egregious example of this is Anderson vs Ping. Anderson was half assing it the entire fight, and the one time he actually went for it he separated Ping from consciousness, but then proceeded to do nothing and walked off raising his arms as the final few seconds of the round ticked off. All he needed to do was throw two follow up punches and the ref stops that fight and Anderson get the win, hell Herb almost jumped in there to stop it even without the follow up. Just bizarre, and mind boggling, I don't know what Anderson was thinking there, for such a high IQ fighter this has to be the biggest brain fart of his career (yes even bigger than clowning against Weidman as that can at least be attributed to attempting to bait him as he's done to many others).

Another more recent one is Nate vs Leon Edwards. Not that I ever considered Nate a genius, but he's smart enough to know he was down big on the scorecards and that was the only daylight Leon showed him all night, and it was absolutely his last shot and snatching up a win from the jaws of defeat, but he just stands there pointing and giving Leon precious seconds to recover. I don't know if jumping on him right away would have got him a finish, but now we'll never know. Just lame.

Even more recent is Gane vs Ngannou. So they're tied 2 rounds a piece and it's the fifth. Gane gets Francis to the ground, is now winning the deciding round and has his very dangerous opponent in a position where he's least dangerous, and all he needs to do is maintain top position on a gassed out HW while he himself doesn't need to exert a whole lot of energy to do so, and he's HW champ. So what does this kickboxer decide to do at this point? Well he attempts a leglock, and loses position and spends the final minutes of the fight on the bottom which loses him the round. WTF?? To make matters worse this guy was touted for his fight IQ above all other things.

What are some others?

Pretty sure the knee from Silva was thrown at the end of the round.

 

[TempleoftheDog]

The round was over. How do you even use Silva/Bisping as an example? That’s utterly ridiculous. Silva had no say in the matter. And if anything Silva’s cage climbing antics probably gave Bisping more time than the regularly alotted one minute in between rounds.

That Andre scrub against O’Malley. One more leg kick ends that fight. But instead of making O’Malley stand up. He follows him into his guard while being down 20-18. It is literally the worst case of fight IQ I’ve ever seen. And the thread should end at this point.

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

Palhares with his goldfish fight IQ vs Dan Miller

Thought he finished Dan Miller and stopped the fight himself

After the confusion and restart, almost got knocked out by Dan Miller (to be fair Palhares did win a decision in the end)

Also Thiago Alves was tearing Kampmann up on the feet, and then decided to let him off the hook by taking him down, and was promptly submitted

 

[accolyte1022]

 

[textwarrior]

Another more recent one is Nate vs Leon Edwards. Not that I ever considered Nate a genius, but he's smart enough to know he was down big on the scorecards and that was the only daylight Leon showed him all night, and it was absolutely his last shot and snatching up a win from the jaws of defeat, but he just stands there pointing and giving Leon precious seconds to recover. I don't know if jumping on him right away would have got him a finish, but now we'll never know. Just lame.

What are some others?

Diaz vs Leon was the first thing that came to mind. Diaz fell in love with pointing at people after getting rocked lol, could have finished. Too much pot.

 

[koquerelle]

Pat Barry vs CroCop

 

[Gio]

Hendricks settling for 70% of his power than going 100%

 

[NoSmilez]

I don't believe there was any time left in that Bisping/Silva fight.

 

[Koro_11]

The round was over. How do you even use Silva/Bisping as an example? That’s utterly ridiculous. Silva had no say in the matter. And if anything Silva’s cage climbing antics probably gave Bisping more time than the regularly alotted one minute in between rounds.

That Andre scrub against O’Malley. One more leg kick ends that fight. But instead of making O’Malley stand up. He follows him into his guard while being down 20-18. It is literally the worst case of fight IQ I’ve ever seen. And the thread should end at this point.

I'll have to rewatch it but I remember the buzzer going off as Anderson was walking away.

 

[Koro_11]

This is probably the most satisfying, what a douche lol.

 

[Last Falconry]

I don't remember the guy's name who kept trying to take O'Malley down when his leg was so injured he could barely stand. Like, he couldn't even stand to do his post fight interview. Better get him to the mat, idiot!

 

[Gio]

Palhares with his goldfish fight IQ vs Dan Miller

Thought he finished Dan Miller and stopped the fight himself

After the confusion and restart, almost got knocked out by Dan Miller (to be fair Palhares did win a decision in the end)

It's crazy how Paul Harris almost got finished after the premature celebration, lol!

 

[TempleoftheDog]

I'll have to rewatch it but I remember the buzzer going off as Anderson was walking away.

So you mean the buzzer went a off second later?? Not even including the cheap shot it obviously was. But you go back and re-watch it. You’ll see there wasn’t enough time left for Silva to do shit. It was the definition of a buzzer beater in the same vein as Machida/T Silva.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

It’s not Anderson’s fault Crooked Herb gave Bisping an extra 5 minutes to recover in his hometown

 

[Why did you]

 

[El Fernas]

The round was over. How do you even use Silva/Bisping as an example? That’s utterly ridiculous. Silva had no say in the matter. And if anything Silva’s cage climbing antics probably gave Bisping more time than the regularly alotted one minute in between rounds.

That Andre scrub against O’Malley. One more leg kick ends that fight. But instead of making O’Malley stand up. He follows him into his guard while being down 20-18. It is literally the worst case of fight IQ I’ve ever seen. And the thread should end at this point.

/Thread. Silva might had an extra second, but he fail called his own fight, that O'malley fight is probably the best example.