The MMA Beat: Episode 193


On this week’s show, the panel will discuss Chuck Liddell’s return to MMA, the controversy surrounding the end of UFC 224, Yair Rodriguez’s release from the UFC and much more.



Watch “The MMA Beat” live today at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT / 5 p.m. GMT.

31 Comments

  1. Grats Ariel on ESPN! Nice big middle finger to D. White after the whole fox incident.

  2. I didn't think Pennington really took a hard ass whoppin . I was surprised when she wanted to quit

  3. De la hoya is becoming the scum he used to bash and vowed to not be like when he went into promoting. I have more respect for Bob Arum. Atleast he owns it.

  4. These analysts don't understand that every second of a fight a person has the internal voice of "are you going to quit, can you handle this or are you going to quit" on a constant loop. It's the fight or flight response. The second a fighter chooses to quit, chooses flight instead of fight, they will quit again and much sooner next time. Once a person gives up on themselves they are much more likely to do it again. Fighters can't just go do their best and quit when times get tough…that would lead to a very poor career. Penningtons corner saved her mentally at the cost of some physical damage. Her corner should have stopped the fight themselves after the 4th but once she said she wanted to quit they had to send her back out for more. They should be criticized for not thinking of stopping the fight first, that's valid, but once she said she wanted to quit they really shouldn't have let her. The corner is actually being criticized for the wrong reasons.

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