Luque Can No Longer Take Punishment

[UFCIsNOTRigged]

The UFC continues booking fights where once-great fighters, who clearly can no longer take punishment, fight hard hitting opposition. The result is always the same whether it comes in the first minute, or the last one, the fighter with the clearly shot chin gets knocked out.

It felt sadistic watching Luque fight Buckley, just as it did a month prior, when Alexander Volkanovski was inviteably knocked out by Ilia Topuria. Hopefully this trend does not continue because we don't need to see Dominick Reyes fight Alonzo Mennifield to know his chin is shot.

 

[sonhow]

Volk needed to fight Topuria because he was the champion though.

On other hand we had Weidman whooping up Silva before eypoking him to death. Though I guess Silva wasnt much of a prospect anymore.

 

[GoWokeGoBroke]

Thanks for all the epic fights luque. Guessing he’ll be hanging them up soon. Dude who has been tough as nails his whole career fighting anyone anytime. This last one was rough. He’s sacrificed a lot.

WAR luque

 

[MetaIIica]

What about Pereira vs Walker ?

 

[13Seconds]

Brain bleed sounds scary as fuck

 

[Phisher]

Brain bleed sounds scary as fuck

It is.

Subdural hematomas have ended a lot of careers.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

I'd definitely be looking for a new gig after a brain bleed

 

[Tweak896]

Luque was doing okay in the fight standing and losing. You guys are acting like he was getting blasted. His choice to pull guard and sit there was some of the lowest IQ I've seen in a fight before. It had nothing to do with being hurt or damaged, he genuinely thought he was going to take over on the ground and instead just sat there taking hits. It's poor choices.

 

[Cancrusher187]

I can't reply on O'Malley. Sad. I get it though.

 

[Cancrusher187]

It was my fault. Message received.

 

[TheMadHatter]

I personally give luque credit for still even fighting after suffering a brain hemorrhage from fighting.

 

[Liverkick-king56]

Luque was doing okay in the fight standing and losing. You guys are acting like he was getting blasted. His choice to pull guard and sit there was some of the lowest IQ I've seen in a fight before. It had nothing to do with being hurt or damaged, he genuinely thought he was going to take over on the ground and instead just sat there taking hits. It's poor choices.

Looked more like he mentally checked out of the fight. It wasn’t like Luque was eating a ton of punishment but his takedown attempt reminded me of Rory shooting on Mousasi and shelling up to let the fight be stopped.

Buckley looked great and took advantage of Luque’s slow footwork plus his lack of tools against southpaws… Buckley deserves credit but Luque sadly wanted out IMO.

 

[Dorkman]

Yeah between his durability clearly being far less than it used to be, and that brain scare he had a year or two ago. Think Vicente should be strongly considering what comes after a MMA career. That's a couple of pretty big warning signs already that your brain health hasn't been it's best.

 

[IronGolem007]

The UFC continues booking fights where once-great fighters, who clearly can no longer take punishment, fight hard hitting opposition. The result is always the same whether it comes in the first minute, or the last one, the fighter with the clearly shot chin gets knocked out.

It felt sadistic watching Luque fight Buckley, just as it did a month prior, when Alexander Volkanovski was inviteably knocked out by Ilia Topuria. Hopefully this trend does not continue because we don't need to see Dominick Reyes fight Alonzo Mennifield to know his chin is shot.

That was a quit, not a KO.

 

[Big Tuppy Hole]

The UFC continues booking fights where once-great fighters, who clearly can no longer take punishment, fight hard hitting opposition. The result is always the same whether it comes in the first minute, or the last one, the fighter with the clearly shot chin gets knocked out.

It felt sadistic watching Luque fight Buckley, just as it did a month prior, when Alexander Volkanovski was inviteably knocked out by Ilia Topuria. Hopefully this trend does not continue because we don't need to see Dominick Reyes fight Alonzo Mennifield to know his chin is shot.

This has been a trend for ever. It's sadly how knew stars are made.

 

[Big Tuppy Hole]

That was a quit, not a KO.

He's physically and mentally shot. Combat sports are unforgiving. It can all get snatched away in a instant. Champ/contender to a punching bag within a fight

 

[Eternalwarriorking]

Pretty amazing run until the Belal rematch and the fateful Neal Beatdown. Dude went 14-2 in the ufc up until this point, with the run starting in 2015, losing only to Leon Edwards and Stephen Thompson. Of these 14 wins, all were finishes, except for a split decision against Mike Perry, which was a FOTY year candidate.

 

[flektarn]

All those punches were on his arms. Mentally he's done. And physically after that health scare I can't blame em if he does wrap it up.

 

[hahahayeah]

honestly, it looked like he didn't want to be there. he completely shelled up as soon as he hit the ground when Buckley was on top despite it looking like he wasn't hurt at all.

 

[KOPPE]

It is.

Subdural hematomas have ended a lot of careers.

yeah look at what it did to Prichard Colon.