PBP UFC on ESPN 47 - Vettori vs. Cannonier: Official PBP Discussion: Sat 6/17 at 7pm ET

[ForeverYoung]

I honestly can't believe this card is in Vegas.....What is this bush league officiating.

 

[Gamer2k4]

I believe spiking someone downward like a piledriver on their head and neck is illegal. This looks legit here.

Yep, this came up in the Rose/Andrade fight too because people don't know anything about anything. A piledriver slam is literally that and only that - rotating someone completely upside down so that they're in an inverted vertical line, then dropping to your knees so their head strikes the mat. Any other slam is perfectly legal no matter what happens with the other fighter's head.

 

[Bradillac]

Just catching up, and holy shit Peterson needs to be fired for that Lawrence fight. Biggest duck up I’ve ever seen.

 

[Silverhawk]

I usually give the commentators some leeway and don't try to be so critical, but Cruz is just, not for the first time, a complete idiot. There are even certain throws/slams that are prohibited, but when you KTFO somebody with a headbutt right after a throw, now that's completely legal and shouldn't be an issue, right? Man...

 

[wufabufa]

Cruz made the comment to go in there and throw them on their head and get them out of there. Wouldn’t that include a pile driver?

Doubtful. You can't piledrive someone in folkstyle/greco/freestyle wrestling either. Dom knows wrestling and his thinking is pretty fucking rigid so I can't see him defending someone pulling a super dangerous move like that. He's an asshole, but he's also a rule follower.

 

[Eternalwarriorking]

Finish or technical decision, that last sequence is gonna look mean in his highlight reel anyway

 

[WuDi]

Bro I absolutely suck at picking fights. You could probably reverse my picks and make some good money betting.

 

[MMA4Life]

REF fucked up so bad. That's hard too watch.

 

[Zach The Maniac]

Be careful brada, I don't always mind my manners when it come to eating ribs. I follow Ribfest when it comes to my area...

I keep trying to post pictures but it says the files are to large

 

[Poirierfan]

This card setting the sport back lol

It's setting only the UFC back, they've been going in reverse for a while now imo. Lol

 

[Kb7]

Should've done the grave digger, that was some Tito X Tanner shit.

 

[tornado362]

Bro I absolutely suck at picking fights. You could probably reverse my picks and make some good money betting.

That Cannonier pick.... Vettori has a cinderblock for a head and Cannonier is a lil gun shy nowadays

 

[Langinbang187]

Just catching up, and holy shit Peterson needs to be fired for that Lawrence fight. Biggest duck up I’ve ever seen.

Officiating doesn't get any better going forward unfortunately

 

[wufabufa]

Yep, this came up in the Rose/Andrade fight too because people don't know anything about anything. A piledriver slam is literally that and only that - rotating someone completely upside down so that they're in an inverted vertical line, then dropping to your knees so their head strikes the mat. Any other slam is perfectly legal no matter what happens with the other fighter's head.

Right. Like Marquardt tombstoning dudes......that was pretty bad. Or Sapp vs Big Nog.

 

[helax]

I keep trying to post pictures but it says the files are to large

When you post them click "large" instead of actual size that may help

 

[NicholasJBasile]

Solid commentary by Cruz -- he said what needed to be said. I'm glad the kid won, but that "clash of heads" call was bollocks imo

 

[Deleted member 585708]

We've basically gone from zero input from outside officials to multiple results overturned in one night <Lmaoo>

Balance, guys, balance.

That finish looked legit to me.

 

[KDR by RNC]

We need a DQ and then the main event to end in a draw. That would make this card so fucky.

 

[MillingMeSoftly]

lol at cruz arguing... 'how do we know the head is what knocked him out? how do we know he wasn't ko'd from the MAT alone?"

wowzers

 

[NicholasJBasile]

Right. Like Marquardt tombstoning dudes......that was pretty bad. Or Sapp vs Big Nog.

Lmao Thales Leites still somehow won that fight haha got a title shot off of it if I recall correctly