Uriah Hall was never the same after this Knockout

[Shilajit]

This one almost made me tear up every time I've watched it. You could visually see Uriah having a legitimate existential crisis and It made him question whether he could continue doing this.

There's a lot of aspects of this sport that really aren't meant for people like Uriah and there's a level of PTSD that he will probably deal with for the rest of his life as a repercussion.

Which I think we've seen with his admission of suicidal thoughts after retirement.

 

[RageQuitLord]

He's gonna ride into Valhalla bro don't worry

 

[7 others]

Must have gotten worse after Weidman breaking his leg

 

[Adamant]

Was expecting a Urijah Faber thread.

 

[Shilajit]

He's gonna ride into Valhalla bro don't worry

maybe

 

[Shilajit]

Was expecting a Urijah Faber.

levels to clickbait bruh

 

[Crazy Librarian]

That's his fault tbf. If you can't stand hurting people why stay in this career, it's like hating or scared of fire but becoming firefighter.

 

[TCE]

This one almost made me tear up every time I've watched it. You could visually see Uriah having a legitimate existential crisis and It made him question whether he could continue doing this.

There's a lot of aspects of this sport that really aren't meant for people like Uriah and there's a level of PTSD that he will probably deal with for the rest of his life as a repercussion.

Well, after that KO, he KO'd two others to reach the finals against Gastelum. So he seemed pretty fine through the show.

 

[akproplayer]

I know, Chael looks pretty broken up too...

 

[StonedLemur]

Gotta agree with @Crazy Librarian on this one.
It's like becoming a phlebotomist and being afraid of blood.
He worked his whole life to be good at something, and one ko shook him that bad?

Weird.

 

[Shilajit]

Well, after that KO, he KO'd two others to reach the finals against Gastelum. So he seemed pretty fine through the show.

Uriah had the potential of a world class, elite fighter that never truly lived up to it.

He attained thing but It's clear that his mental blocks kept him from his best self for much of his career, we only seen glimpses of it.

 

[Shilajit]

Gotta agree with @Crazy Librarian on this one.
It's like becoming a phlebotomist and being afraid of blood.
He worked his whole life to be good at something, and one ko shook him that bad?

Weird.

Being a skilled fighter / martial artist Is a very different thing from being comfortable with hurting people and the deep recognition of the level of damage you can inflict on them. Which could end their career, or even their life. There's a lot of deep philosophical, even primal questions one has to ask themselves when they're In the fight game and capable of such brutality.

 

[StonedLemur]

Being a skilled fighter / martial artist Is a very different thing from being comfortable with hurting people and the deep recognition of the level of damage you can inflict on them. Which could end their career, or even their life. There's a lot of deep philosophical, even primal questions one has to ask themselves when they're In the fight game and capable of such brutality.

Then he shouldn't have gotten involved with a show where people regularly get hurt sir.

 

[Shilajit]

That's his fault tbf. If you can't stand hurting people why stay in this career, it's like hating or scared of fire but becoming firefighter.

Then he shouldn't have gotten involved with a show where people regularly get hurt sir.

Shocking as it may seem, people like money.

 

[Doctor Grudge]

Shocking as it may seem, people like money.

If you like money then becoming an MMA fighter is a pretty counter productive thing to do

 

[HuskySamoan]

Uriah was outstruck for 15 minutes on the regional scene by Costa Phillippou and dropped and knocked out by Chris Weidman from a left hook. Hall was always a fighter that relied on his athleticism and gifts, if those things were near equal he never looked that impressive of a fighter. His striking was always very static and looked good vs overmatched guys who were scared to engage but if guys were willing to pressure him he would often crumble since he was a low output, pot-shotting type striker who needed space to work his jabs and kicks, also Hall's cardio was never very good either. His defensive wrestling was decent considering he's a big athletic guy with strong hips but once the fight hits the mat he really isn't very good there either.

Hall was never what people hyped him up to be, Middleweight is just a very shallow division and he coasted off his TUF hype for most of his career. He beat the ghosts of Anderson and Weidman, he loses 9/10 to Mousasi, he threw a body kick and Moose ducked into it. I don't think Hall would have ever been a MW champ in Bellator or M1 or a lot of other places either.

 

[Crazy Librarian]

Shocking as it may seem, people like money.

Gotta agree with @Crazy Librarian on this one.
It's like becoming a phlebotomist and being afraid of blood.
He worked his whole life to be good at something, and one ko shook him that bad?

Weird.

Then he shouldn't have gotten involved with a show where people regularly get hurt sir.

Fighting isn't the place to make money. If you want to just make money go create business or work for good company and do martial arts as hobby.

Only people making money in fight business is the top 1%, whether it's boxing or MMA or other combat sports. If he doesn't enjoy hurting people he should have stopped. Weird also that you wanna cry seeing Uriah becoming nervous seeing Adam, this is the fight business, people always get hurt and even sometimes die, what do you expect?

I maybe a sociopath but I enjoy every second of good fights and even the scariest ko give me satisfaction, even if it happens to my favorite fighters. Anyone who doesn't enjoy seeing people getting hurt should stop pursuing career or watching fights. It's weird participating in something you don't enjoy repeatedly and then complains getting sad about it.

 

[Rwina]

That's his fault tbf. If you can't stand hurting people why stay in this career, it's like hating or scared of fire but becoming firefighter.

I know what you are trying to say. But it actually would make sense to become a firefighter is you hate fire.

i think in the case it would be more like becoming a pyromaniac

 

[FIghtxIQ]

I think it's part of it but it's not the only reason Uriah has issues. He gets hurt and gets gun shy too. He doesn't like to get hit, so him being gun shy isn't just about him not wanting to hurt the other fighter, he doesn't want to get hurt either. I think fighters overestimate his abilities a bit from his fights from Ultimate Fighter and expect him to be able to do that to ranked fighters every fight as well. He has his moments, but he also gets gun shy once he gets tagged.

 

[Eric Silva 2.0]

Gotta agree with @Crazy Librarian on this one.
It's like becoming a phlebotomist and being afraid of blood.
He worked his whole life to be good at something, and one ko shook him that bad?

Weird.

I would equate it to being a surgeon and being afraid of blood. You don't have to work your whole life to become a phlebotomist, at least here in the U.S.. You need some sort of certificate saying you won't kill people, that's all.