Ahh ok the edit makes more sense and gets to the crux of the situation. If Weidman is told that the strike is illegal and wants to take the five minutes that could be considered gamesmanship. However, the commentators said that Weidman told the doctor he couldn't continue while he was still under the impression that the strike was illegal. Once he found out that the strike was legal he was suddenly able to continue the fight.See my edit:
It's not trying to pull bitch shit if you're told by the fkn ref that it was an illegal knee. Why the hell would you want to say "no that's cool I don't need a break to recover" to give your opponent an advantage for something that the ref said was illegal?
If you get hit by an illegal strike and you think it might hurt your chances of going on to win a fight then anyone in their right mind would say "No fuck that I'm not gonna risk a loss because of an illegal strike"
But once Weidman was told it was a legal knee he said ok he was ready to fight on then
maybe they'll reverse it to a NC then? not sure if the commission can do that after the fact if they don't even have replay ffs
Wideman got kneed in the dome and didn't like it
Yoel Romero bless.He used to have awesome recovery
rogan or dom goes 'mirg after replay says its legal'And that's another element to the shitshow. They say they don't use replay, yet Can Mirgliota's call in the cage was an illegal knee, he then went to the replay booth and changed the call to a legal knee
So wtf? Do you have replay or not? lmao
Ahh ok the edit makes more sense and gets to the crux of the situation. If Weidman is told that the strike is illegal and wants to take the five minutes that could be considered gamesmanship. However, the commentators said that Weidman told the doctor he couldn't continue while he was still under the impression that the strike was illegal. Once he found out that the strike was legal he was suddenly able to continue the fight.
If that is what happened then Weidman was pulling some bitch shit. But I don't actually know what Weidman said to the doctor. Based on what I watched I have to blame Weidman, but I could be wrong.
He used to have awesome recovery
Again even if he told the docs (after being told it was illegal) that he couldn't continue, that's not a bitch move. It wasn't an eyepoke or a nutshot, it was a flush knee to the head that would've impacted him for at least the rest of the round and objectively lowered his chances of winning a fight that he'd already been convincingly winning to that point. So why risk losing a fight you were winning because you took an illegal shot? Fuck that take the win via DQ and offer a rematch, it would be nothing short of stupid to risk losing a high-stakes fight just because you want to prove something by fighting through an illegal significant strike
Sounds like you are advocating bitch shit to me. You say he wasn't dropped by the knee and he was lucid. You say that he was dominating, but did the right thing by trying to get the DQ.The knee didn't drop him, he sat down on the mat after Dan stepped in and seperated the fighters. He was lucid the entire time the shitshow was going on
No kidding, made me wonder if the coaches were even aware that this was his last fight.Rumble pleading his coaches to come back in the cage and hear him "retire" was pretty hard to watch. That whole scene was weird
Gonna be hungover tomorrow. Age is a mother fucker.
No kidding, made me wonder if the coaches were even aware that this was his last fight.
Sounds like you are advocating bitch shit to me. You say he wasn't dropped by the knee and he was lucid. You say that he was dominating, but did the right thing by trying to get the DQ.
If Weidman was honest about the knee not fazing him then he could have continued his "domination". I suspect that he felt that he was looking for an easy way out though