If you want the rules/sterness towards fouls to be treated differently then I'm open to that argument, but you can't flip flop when it suits you.
There is a reason why it’s you vs everybody else in here and nobody is flip flopping, that’s a straw man. Did you have money on Song perhaps? You’re acting like what we’re saying is crazy when well-known, rational people hold the same beliefs. I know I was pissed off when Weidman won against Bruno Silva by spamming eye pokes like he’s in the 3 stooges
It’s a really bad foul (accidental or not) that had serious consequences on the fight. That’s an indisputable fact, it is what it is. This coming from somebody who finished like 18 units up the other night, idrc about the result of the main event. All my money was on Font/Fluffy/Silva
Cejudo has a f***ed up cornea and double vision and pictures of his bloody eye and you’re out here questioning it when you saw Song was knuckle deep lmao like cmon. He tried to gut through it to the end of the round- he specifically was asking Herzog how much time he had to make it until the end of the round during his 5 min break- and then realized he couldn’t continue after fighting a minute and seeing multiple Song’s. Did you not notice him completely stop throwing and only trying to survive after the fight resumed?
I don’t even like Henry, that was just a complete botch job by Herzog. Take points when a guy commits multiple fouls. Take points on serious eye pokes that impact the outcome of the fight. They have completely stopped doing that. People are like “oh they don’t want to insert themselves in the fight”….uh it’s their literal f***ing job. If fighters don’t want the ref “getting involved” stop committing multiple fouls, one of which causing serious injury in this instance.
What is the point of having rules if you don’t want them enforced anyway?
honestly if Herzog didn’t want to do his job and take a point the fight should have been ruled a Song KO- the fight restarted and the round had ended and Henry refused to get up from his stool. You could hear the panic in Herzog’s voice in between rounds 3 and 4, he knew he botched the situation. I’d be pissed if I had Song by KO, and I know plenty of ppl who did.
I will close with this- they did a study and fighters who eye poke their opponents win like 63% of the time or something like that. It’s the definition of an unfair advantage, and they need to even that out by taking points on deep eyepokes. Many of the people who are fouled feel like they have to continue or they’re p***yes because of fans (like you in this instance) accusing them of faking it so they continue with the fight and lose because they can’t see well out of that eye. Credit to Henry for calling it quits, no need to see a 38 YO get chinned because he sees multiple Yadong Song’s out of one eye. If you saw that final minute of the fight you knew he was toast post-poke.
