Not being able to throw in the towel should be a CRIME

[MuayThai101]

Throwing in the towel in boxing is normal. The coach is able to protect the fighter FROM HIMSELF. Prevent long term brain damage. Edson Barboza should have never been able to continue to fight after the second round. It got to the point of no return. UFC making a rule about only the fighter can call it quits should be a crime. Very few fighters are able to admit defeat. Thats why you have the corner decide for them because they know their own fighter. They know when they are done.

 

[OnMcGregorNutz]

this isn't boxing

 

[ovbious]

Will the team be punished afterwards?

Or is the only real consequence the disqualification of the fighters on that bout?

In the second case, it's pretty much like in boxing.

 

[KhabibTheBeagle]

Will the team be punished afterwards?

Or is the only real consequence the disqualification of the fighters on that bout?

In the second case, it's pretty much like in boxing.

Yeah, that's actually how it's ruled, right? They're forcing the DQ by throwing in the towel.

 

[Dirge]

Since when isn't it allowed? Nick threw in the towel for Nate's fight with Josh Thomson

 

[Karelinator]

?

So did anything happen to Nick after he had let that towel fly?

You can throw in towel, it's a 'foul' under Unified rules, and it, well, ends the fight.

 

[Rod Farva]

I didn’t know such a rule existed.

The doctor must be able to stop the fight as well. Is he ever consulted between rounds? (Outside of looking at cuts)

The ref can still stop the fight too.

 

[Turtlejuice]

If I remember correctly they can, and it results in the DQ of their fighter. The Diaz team did it in one of Nates fights, against Thompson I think.

 

[tdluxon]

Throwing in the towel in boxing is normal. The coach is able to protect the fighter FROM HIMSELF. Prevent long term brain damage. Edson Barboza should have never been able to continue to fight after the second round. It got to the point of no return. UFC making a rule about only the fighter can call it quits should be a crime. Very few fighters are able to admit defeat. Thats why you have the corner decide for them because they know their own fighter. They know when they are done.

 

[NapalmX]

It was a brutal first round ... but Barbosa was still in it and the 2nd and 3rd weren't anything like the first in terms of damage ... Rogan and Cruz were still talking about the 1st round through the 2nd and 3rd about how brutal and unstoppable the gnp was.

 

[ramair455]

It doesn't happen in championship boxing. I have seen more fighter quit. But it should have happened with Cotto & Margarito vs Pac

 

[thehighking]

No matter what happened I think Barboza would have been pissed if his corner threw in the towel. I think in MMA anything can happen so the trainers let their fighters carry on in the hope of a hail mary comeback. It's a difficult situation

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

in the early UFC's the ref couldnt stop the fight the cornor had to throw in the towel....

Diaz also did it and BJ's cornor has also... Corners can stop fights

 

[Sakuraba7]

this isn't boxing

They also take far less head trauma than boxing. There weren't any knockdowns in that Barboza fight either. Just because he wasn't winning doesn't mean they need to throw in the towel. Most fighters absolutely hate that, and the corner/fighter would have a talk about that beforehand if that was their plan if it went that way.

 

[jonathan274]

Throwing in the towel in boxing is normal. The coach is able to protect the fighter FROM HIMSELF. Prevent long term brain damage. Edson Barboza should have never been able to continue to fight after the second round. It got to the point of no return. UFC making a rule about only the fighter can call it quits should be a crime. Very few fighters are able to admit defeat. Thats why you have the corner decide for them because they know their own fighter. They know when they are done.

Agree completely. What a terrible rule. A good corner should know when the fight is over and should be trusted to make that call.

 

[GTS]

?

So did anything happen to Nick after he had let that towel fly?

You can throw in towel, it's a 'foul' under Unified rules, and it, well, ends the fight.

That's the way I understand it, it's listed as a rule so when it happens, there is no arguing it.

 

[VIPERdude]

this isn't boxing

BINGO.

 

[rjmbrd]

Barboza did take unnecessary punishment and was wobbling around hopelessly. When he did fire there wasn't anything substantial on it. I see nothing wrong with Henry or Big Dog throwing in the towel, had they decided to do that.

I say live to fight another day, instead of take further head trauma when you are already clearly concussed.

 

[VIPERdude]

Agree completely. What a terrible rule. A good corner should know when the fight is over and should be trusted to make that call.

No fighter wants to quit. They are fighters. This isnt cricket

 

[JonesBones]

They also take far less head trauma than boxing. There weren't any knockdowns in that Barboza fight either. Just because he wasn't winning doesn't mean they need to throw in the towel. Most fighters absolutely hate that, and the corner/fighter would have a talk about that beforehand if that was their plan if it went that way.

You have no evidence that boxing causes "far more" head trauma. There werent any knockdowns but he was getting his head pounded in on the ground while somebody else is on top of him. That doesn't happen in boxing.

In MMA, you can pin a guy to the ground making him defenseless and pound the shit out of him.

Look at Mir vs Both Carwin and Lesnar. Nobody in boxing takes that many huge undefended blows.