UFC 102 medical suspensions and injuries

Yeah I really don’t understand why he didn’t just say he couldn’t continue.

To me, it seems like the ref should have looked out for him a little better and stopped the fight himself. I mean come on, the guy was throwing up in the cage!!!

I agree, I’m all for bravery in the octagon, but there’s a fine line between bravery and stupidity. Somebody should have stepped in and said no.

K-dog – Truth, it was pretty obivious, after the head kick, a few times that gg would stand up and chris would just sit there turtled up. This fight should have never resumed.

Exactly. I even felt as if the ref let him take unnecessary punishment before calling the tko. One things for sure. The dude has heart. I would still be puking my balls up.

The guy did suffer too much punishment, Gonzo stood off him twice and he literally couldn’t stand back up, just lay there waiting to absorb more blows. Poor reffing all round IMO.

The ref was abysmal, typical clueless local refs honestly I wish that athletic commissions would only hire legitimate refs like Herb and Mario (and Big John if he stops acting like he’s a big star when he’s just a good ref) for big cards like UFC PPVs because it’s absurd that someone with no experience is responsible for the health and safety of top-level fighters including some of the most dangerous strikers in the sport.

In my opinion the Gabe-Tusch fight should have been stopped as soon as Chris threw up, by then there was no chance of him recovering and in the end he took a pointless brutal beating instead of getting a no contest or DQ win. He was clearly badly hurt and it was neglible to let him continue.

Herman-Simpson should also have been stopped as soon as Ed’s knee went out, again it was clear that he was badly hurt so why he was allowed to fight when he couldn’t even walk back to his corner without hobbling is beyond me, who knows how much extra damage was done to his knee and that potentially could be the end of his career because of neglible officiating.

Hey Dave, you gotta be pleased about the rugby saturday buddy??? What a great game.

http://www.mmalinker.com/fighter/Gabriel-Gonzaga.html and just click on the fight…

Fuck Herman, how about how good his opponent looked!? Quick, lean and strong! I was impressed!

Yeah agreed kevin, Aaron Simpson is a bad man. I remeber reading somewhere that he is 35 though, is that true or am I wrong??

i think ur right

As always Kevin is a giant doucher, way to go buddy. Maia looked good in his win over Herman, but look what happened to him. And Herman showed a good chin and a lot of heart.

I didn’t think maia looked great against Herman, didn’t he almost get submitted repeatedly. I’m a douche because I think a guy I’ve never see looked good? sorry buddy, u keep supporting Chuck, couture and the other “legends,” I’ll continue to look at talent as a whole!

Kevin the point is people were expressing concern about an injured fighter and how neglible his corner and the ref were in letting him continue, yet you clearly couldn’t give a toss and insulted him. Not the best time to say something like that mate.

And I thought that Maia looked pretty good against Herman, his submission at the end was a thing of beauty, Demian’s problem in that fight was his cardio. He was nearly submitted in the J-Mac fight but MacDonald is a pretty good grappler and put on a great performance, he was just beaten by the better man in an awesome fight. I’m not bailing on the Maia warwagon because of one defeat caused by a daft mistake, if he works on his striking technique then he can come back and submit some top-level MWs.

I wasn’t insulting him, simply saying, “ok, he got injured, but enough about that, his opponent looked great.”