Which current champion is least likely to tap?

[svmr_db]

Some fighters chose to nap rather than tap, see Bisping vs GSP. Others like Alexander Volkanovski have come as close as possible to getting submitted but never tapped (vs Ortega) and he also said multiple times in the buildup to the Makhachev fight that he wouldn't tap.



Who do you think is least likely to ever tap if caught in a submission? I think Valentina Shevchenko would refuse to tap. She has said she will hold on to the belt "forever" or until she stops fighting, I think being a champion is part of her mentality to the point she would never admit she's been beaten and tap no matter what she gets caught in. Topic came to my mind just thinking about how an eventual Shevchenko vs Blanchfield match may go.

Nothing wrong with tapping btw imo but I thought it's an interesting topic. Of the current champions only Alex Pereira and Amanda Nunes have tapped so they aren't on the list.

 

[Wonderfight]

Volk, Valentina, Weili. Idk why, I just don’t seem them tap easily at all, even if they maybe would. Moreno maybe, that is my top 4 I guess.Volk has pretty much proven it, Valentina just has has that pride which would lead her to to getting slept and Weili/Moreno I see as at least a hard tap.

I didn’t put Hill because I imagined it being a choking position which would lead to sleep, not break of any kind. Though he is a tough mf for what he did against Craig.

 

[JonJonesNeedle]

IIRC Jamahal Hill didn't tap to Paul Craig.

 

[Thesnake101]

I mean, we have evidence of Hill letting his arm get fucked up instead of tapping so I'll go with him.

 

[Chael_Sonnen]

Volk and Valentina are my picks. We already saw Volk not tap against Ortega, and Valentina just strikes me as someone who wouldn't tap, even to armbars and the like.

Edit: And Hill as we saw against Craig.

 

[svmr_db]

IIRC Jamahal Hill didn't tap to Paul Craig.

Yeah that got counted as a TKO also.

 

[Jonesisnatural]

Volk is pure testosterone
No tapping there

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Volk and Hill have proven they'd rather lose consciousness or a limb rather than tap.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Volk is pure testosterone
No tapping there

Against Ortega it's like he was thinking "fuck tapping or trying to get out of this, I'm going to wait for him to get tired"

 

[Wizzlebiz]

Sorry. But put any one of them in an armbar and they are tapping before it snaps.

Only people with ego issues to tapping like Nog and Souza will let it snap.

 

[HNIC215]

Alex didn’t tap because Islam was gassed.

Don’t get it twisted.

 

[Pascal Bergeron]

Sorry. But put any one of them in an armbar and they are tapping before it snaps.

Only people with ego issues to tapping like Nog and Souza will let it snap.

Also tony

 

[FIghtxIQ]

Some fighters chose to nap rather than tap, see Bisping vs GSP. Others like Alexander Volkanovski have come as close as possible to getting submitted but never tapped (vs Ortega) and he also said multiple times in the buildup to the Makhachev fight that he wouldn't tap.



Who do you think is least likely to ever tap if caught in a submission? I think Valentina Shevchenko would refuse to tap. She has said she will hold on to the belt "forever" or until she stops fighting, I think being a champion is part of her mentality to the point she would never admit she's been beaten and tap no matter what she gets caught in. Topic came to my mind just thinking about how an eventual Shevchenko vs Blanchfield match may go.

Nothing wrong with tapping btw imo but I thought it's an interesting topic. Of the current champions only Alex Pereira and Amanda Nunes have tapped so they aren't on the list.

We'll see with Pereira, that was his first mma fight. He probably didn't even start any grappling training yet. A better metric will be his future fights to see how he currently responds.

 

[FIghtxIQ]

Sorry. But put any one of them in an armbar and they are tapping before it snaps.

Only people with ego issues to tapping like Nog and Souza will let it snap.

Ego or warrior spirit? Some people train to never give up. Problem is many train only for sport. Some train for actual fighting. In real life you tap or give up you are dead. There's no referee, so some people mentally train to never give up in a fight. It's not ego, some train and fight with everything they got and never give up - while others don't and are more likely to quit and tap quickly once things start going bad.

 

[GiganticMeat]

Sorry. But put any one of them in an armbar and they are tapping before it snaps.

Only people with ego issues to tapping like Nog and Souza will let it snap.

Not an armbar, but Hill didn't tap against Craig. So what about that?

Edit: 2 votes for Hill, 37 for Volk...

 

[JosephTessaro]

Everyone less and except Leon Edwards. I have a feeling he would tap. All others don't tap.

 

[Iroh]

Bruh, Volk wouldn't tap even if 16 men would hold him at gun point and demand him to tap!

 

[Simple Southerner]

Volk

 

[Substance Abuse]

Volk. Ortega. Hi. Bye.

 

[Iroh]

Ego or warrior spirit? Some people train to never give up. Problem is many train only for sport. Some train for actual fighting. In real life you tap or give up you are dead. There's no referee, so some people mentally train to never give up in a fight. It's not ego, some train and fight with everything they got and never give up - while others don't and are more likely to quit and tap quickly once things start going bad.

I agree with what you are saying in general, but IRL not every fight is actually to the death either. It definitely can be. But there are enough street fight vids where the guy taps and it works out.