Why are 99% of fighters overreacting after hurting...

[Zerfleischer]

...their opponents with strikes?

Remember Dos Anjos panicing and aiming for Cowboys head, hitting arms like crazy after hurting him to the liver standing? Does this make any sense...?!?
Or Scott Smith vs Sell, complete overreaction.

By the way, why do fighters almost always follow up to the ground?
Why not stay cool, like drop your opponent, and wave him up?
If he can't get up or doesn't want get up you win,
if he gets up you can hit him again while he's most likely still hurt bad.

Imagine if Shane Carwin would have done this to Brock Lesnar,
pictures for the gods and on top of that,
he easily would have won the fight!
Also Mitriones opponent could have done this tactic in Dynamite,
he would probably have won the fight this way,
but instead he gave Mitrione time to recover.

Cro Cop did this a lot in PRIDE, also Hunt kind of does it and to be honest, he really should do it this way.

I think while rocked in general it's more difficult to defend yourself standing than on the ground.

I've seen so many crazy follow ups over the years, why do fighters overreact so much?

 

[BisexualMMA]

It would be interesting to see %'s on how often this (following a hurt opponent to the ground) leads to a TKO shortly thereafter, or the hurt guy surviving the round, or the hurt guy actually winning somehow.

 

[MCMXCIX]

lol be cool and wave him up. You're trying to knock someone out and end the fight fast. In MMA anything can and will happen. Say fighter 1 knocks Fighter 2 every round. Then the last 10 seconds fighter 2 throws a bomb and it lands. Lights out for Fighter 1....You'd be dumb to not try and punch his head off if you knocked him down.

 

[IndyCovaHart]

I wish Pele would have followed up on all his monster shots. He might have had wins over Newton and Liddell.