Gordeau is the GOAT and pioneer in the eye department.
This and it's not even close. GG paved the way for eye gougers everewhere.
Gerard really takes the cake with his whole explaination of the event and what was going through his mind while he was trying to blind Yuki (it was Nakao, right?). I don't want to fighter bash so I'll just say that GG takes the eye gouging cake and based on his behavior and his justification of it, even almost a decade later, I think he has serious mental health issues.
Palhares seems to have some psych issues, too. He acts like he has extremely underdeveloped empathy and he seems ultra impulsive.
And before people say 'but but but he's a cage fighter and grew up poor', tons of pro and anmy fighters that are from slums or flavelas are incredibly cool with fully developed empathy.
It's serial killers that are devoid.
Palhares is a savant. His MMA jits game is on a whole different level. Consistently subbing some of the most talented sub wrestlers in the sport in Fitch, Shields, Pierce etc almost seems impossible. He's an MMA grappling god.
Unfortunately, I think he is also either a socioP or his emotional development was arrested at some point around 3 or 4 years old.
I hate to say it because he's such an amazing fighter but I don't think he should be allowed to fight anymore. He's just not able to make whatever adjustments he needs to in order to not fight dirty and actually try to INJURE opponents even after he's won the fight.
He could actually be charged for some of his actions in the ring. He's not just breaking Unified rules, he's comitting crimes.
IMO.
