Efter att Rousimar Palhares fått mycket kritik för att ha dragit ut på sitt benlås mot Jon Fitch under WSOF 16, har managern Alex Davis nu gått in till försvar för ”Toquinho”.
Davis har jobbat som manager för fighters såsom Antonio Silva, Edson Barboza, Thiago Tavares, Fabio Maldonado, Palhares och även tidigare varit mästare i judo både i Brazilien och USA.
Det här hade Davis att säga om det som hände under matchen, via ”MMAJunkie”:
Typically, a fighter does not want to lose, and he will only tap once the hyperextension and, consequently, the injury occurs.
And I will expand here and enlighten the ignorant – the majority of the submissions we see on TV cause injuries because of this hesitation; they are just not as graphically impressive! The injuries caused by Rousimar’s submissions have already occurred when the referee steps in. The same thing happens with chokes. Anybody here notice how many times chokes put guys to sleep? It’s the very same phenomenon!
These are facts of this sport. They are facts which the casual fans – and I will include the majority of the journalists who have turned into specialists in only a few months in this category – do not understand!
To see Rousimar crank on someone’s leg and hyperextend it is not pretty – not even to me. It is disturbing, to say the least. This man is extremely powerful; he is built like a vice. He is also extremely precise in his technique. But he is doing nothing wrong. He is going out there to win the fight, just like anyone else. He is not malicious or a monster, like some here would have us believe.
This is a sport based on causing damage to one’s opponent. It’s the reality of the sport, and the guys that go in there to fight are perfectly aware of this. Broken noses, broken jaws and huge gashes are also part of MMA, along with hyperextensions. And to tell Rousimar to go easy on his submissions is like telling Mark Hunt to go softer on his knockouts
Rousimar is doing nothing wrong. He has been victim of the fact that he looks like something out of a horror movie and cannot speak English, which turns him into a prime target for people out there looking to increase traffic on their websites. Everyone wants to read about how evil Rousimar Palharesis: He is so bad that he got cut from the UFC because his badness went viral!
I will give all the fruit cakes out there voicing their feelings on Rousimar and his submissions this: They are not pretty. But they are part of the sport, as are all the other harmful and brutal techniques used in MMA! As I said before, this is a sport based on inflicting damage to your opponent. And if you cannot deal with that, you should be watching something else.
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