Fighters who have tapped to strikes in the UFC

[P4p Islam]

Over the course of history most MMA fans have agreed that tapping to strikes is the cowards way out. How many times has this happened in the UFC?


I can only think of 2 instances off the top of my head. Fred Ettish and CroCop.

 

[Siver!]

Over the course of history most MMA fans have agreed that tapping to strikes is the cowards way out. How many times has this happened in the UFC?


I can only think of 2 instances off the top of my head. Fred Ettish and CroCop.

Fred Ettish?

Didn't he tap to a headlock?

 

[Siver!]

Here's Shogun Rua tapping to strike from Paul Craig.

 

[JustBleed69]

Joanna vs Rose 1

 

[P4p Islam]

Here's Shogun Rua tapping to strike from Paul Craig.

Forgot about shogun tapping to strikes.


Ouch....

 

[davidlemonparty]

GSP, surely that's the most famous example

 

[Here's Johnny!]

GSP, surely that's the most famous example

Dude don't feed the troll he specifically wanted this answer

 

[Fight Professor]

Here's Shogun Rua tapping to strike from Paul Craig.

I believe he also tapped in the Jones fight.

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

GSP, surely that's the most famous example

Dude don't feed the troll he specifically wanted this answer

Nah. He's talking about Anderson Silva to leg kicks...

 

[Dr. Rose]

Over the course of history most MMA fans have agreed that tapping to strikes is the cowards way out. How many times has this happened in the UFC?


I can only think of 2 instances off the top of my head. Fred Ettish and CroCop.

Not most fans. Maybe most fans who have never been in a fight.

 

[Dr. Rose]

Fred Ettish?

Didn't he tap to a headlock?

He was a bloody mess from elbows.

 

[gentel]

Tapping to strikes is smart, like that Shogun Rua clip should've been stopped by the ref already. We need more tapping to strikes and towel throws in the UFC because when you're beat, you're beat. Taking extra punches to the head won't get you out of some inescapable beatdown on the ground

 

[Sean Chowdhury]

GSP against serra, oliveira against felder, some people also say rakic tapped to strikes against jiri and it kind of looks like it but it was never confirmed

 

[J'Ghasta]

Tapping to strikes is smart, like that Shogun Rua clip should've been stopped by the ref already. We need more tapping to strikes and towel throws in the UFC because when you're beat, you're beat. Taking extra punches to the head won't get you out of some inescapable beatdown on the ground

But at what point does "smart" become weak/defeatist/cowardly. I dont want to see this become normalized. Then you'll have a bunch of guys giving up at the first sign of trouble. I always respect the ones who never tap to anything even submissions the most.

 

[dipstickjimmy]

Frank Mir famously professed tapping to strikes was Cowardly or something of the sort. Funny thing is he gets his lights turned off so fast he has no time to consider tapping to strikes......

Except that time he tapped to strikes.

 

[Dr. Rose]

Tapping to strikes is smart, like that Shogun Rua clip should've been stopped by the ref already. We need more tapping to strikes and towel throws in the UFC because when you're beat, you're beat. Taking extra punches to the head won't get you out of some inescapable beatdown on the ground

The same people complaining about tapping to strikes also talk a lot about CTE.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Charles tapped against Felder, those elbows were brutal. Elbows were Felder's best attribute by far. For some reason they list it as TKO, but if you watch the fight then you'll get it how it ended.

 

[shunyata]

Here's Shogun Rua tapping to strike from Paul Craig.

Jones too.

No shade on Rua, when you're done you're done.

 

[Dr. Rose]

But at what point does "smart" become weak/defeatist/cowardly. I dont want to see this become normalized. Then you'll have a bunch of guys giving up at the first sign of trouble. I always respect the ones who never tap to anything even submissions the most.

Those will be the guys busted up, living a horrible life in their 50s.

Your question is hard to address objectively.

People call Joanna and GSP taps cowardly, or mock them for it, but they were clearly not in the condition to even be fully aware that they were tapping.

 

[joy2day]

ummm... in case dipshits are living under a log, MMA fighters are fucked up from CTE right now. The whole "he tapped to strikes" narrative proves pure idiocy.