At UFC 224, Raquel Pennington lost to Amanda Nunes in the main event. The pair were battling for the UFC women’s bantamweight title. However, between the fourth and fifth rounds, Pennington told her corner she was done. Rather than listen to her, they sent her back out for the fifth where she was summarily TKO’d.
In this episode of the podcast, we examine the arguments in favor of sending Pennington back into the fifth and demonstrate, one by one, why none are convincing. We also dig into Davi Ramos’s win over Nick Hein. This is the Monday Morning Analyst with Luke Thomas.
2018-05-14
25.00 mins he goes on about this crap for!
Your arguments are solid from a moral and logical standpoint…but…fighting with the knowledge of the damage possible is inherently illogical… granted, logic can and should be used in cornering/fighting. Also, this was a title fight. May be the only chance in a career, and it may haunt them when another big fight comes up. Again, although Pennington is tough in the cage physically, by her own admission has been weak mentally on several occasions….she was dropped by a coach for that reason……also, none of this would be talked about to this extent if it was a guy. Again, i
I appreciate your intelligent points
The corner must take the health and safety of the athlete seriously, and always FIRST. So what if they have a relationship with the athlete. How many times have we seen in boxing and other mma organizations where an athlete died in the ring or a day or so after. Well, those athletes had relationships with their coaches too and death and injury overrode that. The UFC doesn't need an athlete death in the octagon or just after. It's gonna be hard to sell PPVs after people start dying. People say the UFC is becoming pro wrestling, well pro wrestling had a lot of deaths, and injuries that led to deaths, across many organizations, most notably Owen Hart. The UFC doesn't want that at all. If an athlete says he or she can't go, then it needs to be called. That's the right of the athlete.
Here is the argument for sending her back out: This was a championship fight and there is always a chance you can win. The damage you will sustain pales in comparison to the rewards you may receive. Letting her quit would forever gnaw at her soul as she asks herself "what if?"
You can say what u want, in combat sports, quitting ruins a fighter forever. Rocky will make a few $100k more over her career because she didn’t quit. See Duran,riggo,ortiz. You can say what you want, but I’m positive she’d lose all her sponcers if she’d quit…it’s this “what it should be” not “what it is” culture. They made her a lot of $. No1 supports a quitter
Would you have stopped the Jack Hermansson fight after the 2nd round Luke?
The way she told her cornor "I want to be done" sounded to me like "I want to quit, please don't let me give up". If she really wanted it to be over she would've told the ref she's done.
Fire luke!
You don't need to change minds, most people agree with you except Miesha Tate
This is why Luke you are not a fighter and are the biggest ass hat in mma reporting.