Chael Sonnen talks Ricky Simon’s controversial choke against Merab Dvalishvili


UFC Atlantic City’s match between Ricky Simon and Merab Dvalishvili ended in the latest stoppage in UFC history. Ricky Simon overcame adversity to submit Merab Dvalishvili at the buzzer with a mounted guillotine choke. Chael Sonnen gives his thoughts on his You’re Welcome podcast.


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  1. Merab was out from the takedown, regained consciousness and got choked out. His body was twitching but he was out. I still think he deserved to win because the fight was not stopped but he was 100% out.

  2. If this didn't happen at the end of the last round I think the stoppage would be a bit easier to understand. I don't think that it matters that there wasn't another round. If at the end of any round a fighter can't get up, expect the fight to be called.

  3. I was there and it was scary bc I didn't know if the kicks were convulsions :-/

  4. Fight's are often stopped by tko when a guy is completely conscious and simply not INTELLIGENTLY defending himself. Kicking his legs while his arms are laying limp does not count as intelligent defense. He clearly went out on the takedown and came to once his unconscious body was swept into a mounted guillotine. Once there his arms are limp and his legs are kicking involuntarily (much like when Holly Holm punched when Meisha choked her unconscious). The arguments here really make me question the MMA community as it seems to be split with idiots out there questioning/arguing people like John McCarthy and Goddard that he was in fact "conscious." The kicking was a primal movement that his body instinctually did to get out of danger and he kept doing it for a good 2 seconds after the fight ended before he SEMI came to. He couldn't even stand up at the end of the fight and had to be laid down so he wouldn't just crumble paralyzed… He could have seriously died or became a vegetable in there if that fight went longer as he wasn't fighting the choke. Shame on the referee for not stopping the fight as soon as he stopped INTELLIGENTLY defending himself and shame on the fighter for not recognizing a lack of consciousness when there was ZERO resistance against the choke.

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  6. Don't you have to be intelligently defending yourself at all times? I would have stopped it 20 seconds earlier because he wasn't defending from a neck crank/choke, which is threatening the neck.

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