RFA Fighter Collapses Between Rounds, Allowed To Continue Fighting
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MMA Mania has an outstanding article on this. Matt Roth comments on the Wyoming statement, has comments from Miletich & Schiavello (the commentators), the fighter (Maranhao) himself, someone from RFA & Isaac Vallie-Flagg, for another fighters opinion on it. Too long to post the whole thing but I'll quote what Vallie-Flagg had to say about it.
http://www.mmamania.com/2014/4/13/5...loses-conciousness-between-rounds-wyoming-mma
"For me personally, I think that's where the ref and the corner should have stepped in for the safety of the fighter. They should have called the fight. I really think the doctor should have called it and I really think the corner should have called it."
"When something like that happens, you don't know what really happened to the guy. I think you're doing the fighter, the sport, and everything as far as health is concerned, an injustice with letting the fight continue."
"You know, I think the fighter often times will be too tough for his own good, but that's where it's the responsibility of a solid corner person to step in and take over. I would hope my cornermen would err on the side of safety. It sucks for that to happen, but I would hope that would be the case. It's not a cut. It's not something a guy can fight through. It wasn't like he slipped. He was completely unconscious."
"I hope that I'd make the judgement call to stop the fight. There are certain things you can work through. I know that I've fought when my hand was broken and I've fought through some pretty painful stuff. But when someone's brain is at stake? Hopefully the guy would understand why I stopped it."
To close the call, I asked him if he'd ever take a fight in Wyoming. His response was short and succinct.
"No, I wouldn't want to. I don't think that they have the fighter's safety in mind after seeing that."
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I was going to say that I had mixed feelings after watching the first video, just because I couldn't see how long the guy was out for.
That last video that was posted above though shows that not only was he out on the mat, he was out when they brought him back to his stool and propped him up against the cage. There's really no gray area here.
I don't understand how that doctor is allowed to continue to work at these events. That was a terrible decision to let that guy continue to fight.
Brick said:
Mainstream media has picked up on it, this is on the front page of cnnsi.com, ugh.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mm...maranhaos-blackout-how-it-happened/?eref=sihp
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CopperHeart said:
f---ing morons at the WY commission.
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At lest she placed the blame where it should be. I was expecting some MMA hack job....
Sapper said:
At lest she placed the blame where it should be. I was expecting some MMA hack job....
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She's one of their regular MMA writers so at least knows the sport. But SI and ESPN usually bury their MMA news on a page you have to go hunting for, unless of course it's bad news and gets first page treatment.
Brick said:
She's one of their regular MMA writers so at least knows the sport. But SI and ESPN usually bury their MMA news on a page you have to go hunting for, unless of course it's bad news and gets first page treatment.
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Hunt has been around a long time, sometimes she is a good writer, sometimes not.