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i ddint read all the pages. so I am sure someone said this. but lawler didn't want to touch gloves with Hendricks in the last fight.. look whos the champ now
McGreggor talks shit about his opponents 24/7 and its Siver who has poor sportsmanship? Weird.
MMA gods? lol........dont believe in them. pics or I call B.S.
any excuse to post some Krazy Horse
It's fair game after the glove touch. Plus he was called out for it but people showed he touched gloves and wasn't really trying to hit his opponent cheaply.
Myth Busted.....:icon_cry2
Are you sure it's fair game? Hominick touched gives with zombie, then immediately attacked and got knocked out immediately
What happens in the ring is different from what happens outside it. The MMA Gods only care about what you do inside the ring.
One of the few times i can remember it going the other way was when Brock turned his back on Mir when he went to touch gloves and still won. But it does seem like karma comes into play a lot. Kos wouldn't touch gloves against Woodley and that was one of the most brutal KOs in history!People were overly impressed with McG's demolition of Dennis Siver but they're giving McG too much credit and not enough credit to karma and the MMA Gods. When McG tried to touch gloves before the fight, Siver refused. We've seen countless times before that when fighter A goes to touch gloves and fighter B refuses, fighter A usually wins in devastating fashion.
We saw it when Fedor crushed Ogawa in under a minute: [no footage because of UFC copyright].
Here's the UFC's Ashlee Evans-Smith refusing to touch gloves and then getting KO'd in 5 seconds:
[YT]5V0Puyoa_40?t=5m35s[/YT]
Here's another example from a smaller org, a 4 second KO when the guy refuses to touch gloves:
[YT]6gw-G6yy3Zg?t=38s[/YT]
So McG's destruction of Siver, while complete, is not that impressive because it took him almost a round and a half to do it. A truly great fighter like Fedor would have finished his disrespectful opponent in a lot less time. Either way, the wrath of the MMA Gods were to credit for the one-sided fight, not some transcendent skills of McG.
Do fighters not expect opponents to say bad things about them? That's part of the business. It's part of what they signed up for. I'd be more surprised if my opponent didn't say something bad about me...
People were overly impressed with McG's demolition of Dennis Siver but they're giving McG too much credit and not enough credit to karma and the MMA Gods. When McG tried to touch gloves before the fight, Siver refused. We've seen countless times before that when fighter A goes to touch gloves and fighter B refuses, fighter A usually wins in devastating fashion.
We saw it when Fedor crushed Ogawa in under a minute: [no footage because of UFC copyright].
Here's the UFC's Ashlee Evans-Smith refusing to touch gloves and then getting KO'd in 5 seconds:
[YT]5V0Puyoa_40?t=5m35s[/YT]
Here's another example from a smaller org, a 4 second KO when the guy refuses to touch gloves:
[YT]6gw-G6yy3Zg?t=38s[/YT]
So McG's destruction of Siver, while complete, is not that impressive because it took him almost a round and a half to do it. A truly great fighter like Fedor would have finished his disrespectful opponent in a lot less time. Either way, the wrath of the MMA Gods were to credit for the one-sided fight, not some transcendent skills of McG.
What happens in the ring is different from what happens outside it. The MMA Gods only care about what you do inside the ring.
there are no other gods, but god n conor is his messenger
correlation=/=causation.
You could just as easily say that most fighters who refuse the glove touch know they can't win before the fight starts.