Did Dana White Go Too Far In Banning Rousimar Palhares?

This is a video of a fight where Rousimar Palhares fought recently. Later that night Dana said he will be cut and banned from the UFC forever. Dana feels he held on too long. I think its a grey area. The hold shoulda been broken sooner by the ref. The ref was across the octagon.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsblWuiwMGY]Palhares submits Pierce in 31 seconds - YouTube[/ame]

 

Re: Did Dana Go Too Far?

Um, yeah. I'm not seeing the major issue. The opponent switched directly from punching to tapping out, which probably took him a second to register what was going on. I count 1.5 seconds between the time he started tapping and the release. Surprised this is such an issue

 

Re: Did Dana Go Too Far?

It's not the first Palhares has not immediately let go of a hold and he was suspended for that before. This was his second strike in the UFC.

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yea i dont see anything wrong with that. watching it for the 15th time... dana is just trying to protect GSP from losing to this guy. he didnt start tapping til 32 and hold broke 34.

 

Re: Did Dana Go Too Far?

He got suspended for 120 by the Brazilian Fight commision too, so they also believe he held on too long.
Rousimar Palhares suspended by Brazilian commission for 120 days - Bloody Elbow

 

Re: Did Dana Go Too Far?

My opinion when I watched it Wednesday was he held too long. That has only been reinforced watching it 4 more times. The ref was sitting on them trying to get them separated and he was still cranking on it. The fight was over, he's fighting after the whistle.

 

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If that's the case then I see danas point.

 

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they are all blowing this out of proportion. there is nothing dirty about how long he held. it is less than 2 seconds. how many times do we see refs pull fighters off like that? the answer is all the time. they are making this sport worse. dana should just say submissions are illegal because the injury factor. thats his whole case. he is trying to say he held on for 4 seconds. the truth is if he wanted to really hurt him... he would have just like frank mir did Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira.

 

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Difference in that fight was Nog wouldn't tap. That's why his arm got broken, because of pride

 

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He kept cranking on this guy's leg even though he was obviously tapping. He went a little too far with it and it cost him.

 

I don't see anything wrong with it. I count two seconds from first tap till he let go. Two seconds goes by awfully quick, I'd imagine it goes very quick if you're in the heat of a UFC match.

 

I agree. When I got into fights it took much longer for for the intervention to sink in. All you think about is winning. Fighting at this high level, I can only imagine what its like. If you have have the guy tapping and you let go... You have to hope the ref seen the tap otherwise you lose your winning position and have to continue fighting. Id be pissed if i made the guy tap then i get ko because i let go too soon.

 

I don't think he did anything wrong, he let go when he knew for sure the ref was trying to stop it.

 

that isn't what i pictured when i initially heard about this situation, lol. joke.

 

i was just thinking about this. Rousimar Palhares might have a lawsuit case. wrongful termination, breach of contract or something like that.

 

that isn't wrongful termination anyway, lol. that's like saying a safety in the nfl has a wrongful termination suit if he gets cut for dropping a pick.

 

That's actually not at all what it's like.

 

It actually is. The point is, a sports contract isn't the same as the real world. You don't need a reason to terminate someone.