UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya is calling for stiff monetary penalties on fighters who miss weight. You’re also not allowed to kick someone in the dick or poke them in the eyes, but you’ll almost always get the benefit of the doubt the first two or three times you do it. As Jake Matthews was trying to finish a guillotine choke on Li Jingliang, the Chinese fighter dug his fingers in and gouged his eyes. … You don’t do it that way. He gave him a verbal warning, saying that with one more foul, he would take a point away. Despite a bad cut and blurry vision, Matthews managed to finish the two rounds and win a lopsided decision. Is the UFC not even going to go through the motions of a finger wag in Jingliang’s direction over his foul filled fight? Can A ‘Low Contact’ Road Trip Still Capture The Joy Of Travel? And while there’s no shortage of accidental eye pokes in MMA due to the open fingered gloves worn by fighters, you don’t tend to see a lot of legit intentional gouging going on. UFC 221 Photo: Referee allows Li Jingliang to eye gouge Jake Matthews to get out of submission New, 18 comments A blatant and gruesome looking foul at …
To this day, Bisping’s eye still visibly shows the after-effects of that detached retina. Don’t worry, the ref will warn you before he takes a point. Instead, he let it continue, Jingliang escaped the guillotine, and the official simply warned him not to commit another foul between rounds. The UFC is still looking to find a top ranked opponent for up and coming star Khamzat Chimaev, and it’s turning out to be harder than expected. It was only by holding onto Matthews’ gloves that Jingliang managed to survive the first round. Copyright © 2020 411mania.com, LLC. Click here for our privacy policy. UFC 221 results: Biggest winners, loser from ‘Rockhold vs Romero’ last night, UFC 221 results: Jake Matthews sweeps Li Jingliang on judges scorecards in impressive fashion. There was no point taken in the moment, and once the incident had passed the ref was left warning Jingliang that he’d take a point if it happened again. #UFC221 pic.twitter.com/YFH7PhpjNH, — Justin Hartling (@justinhartling) February 11, 2018, Leech should have been DQ'd. The question we have now: can the UFC really hand out the $50,000 bonus that comes with that distinction to a fighter that eye gouged their opponent? Rules with firm consequences. The referee didn’t even stop the action, despite being right above the foul as it happened.
The more you watch mixed martial arts, the more you realize rules aren’t really rules as much as they are suggested guidelines to follow or ignore at a fighter’s discretion. To make things worse, the referee just allowed it to happen. It’s crazy enough that Jingliang did that to escape a deep submission. UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya is calling for stiff monetary penalties on fighters who miss weight.
Sure, we’re happy that Jake Matthews also gets the same amount, but is this the message we really want to be sending fighters when it comes to illegal moves as serious as an eye gouge?