Our Thoughts on Referee Fight Stoppages in MMA

Osborne and McCarty discuss good and bad refereeing in MMA, what qualifies as a good and bad stop and what can be done to limit the number of fights being stopped prematurely.

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[AndrewCopland]

Before that stoppage Amir was undefeated I think, which sucks a bit. If you're going to get a loss on your record it should be one worth getting. I agree with you guys.

Any chance you'll be commenting on Forrest Griffin's leaving the cage early after his match with Anderson Silva? Would love to hear your thoughts. As far as I'm aware Forrest hasn't issued any comment yet.

[osbornemccarty]

Our next video is going to be about Forrest leaving the cage. Are you psychic? LOL :-)

[xpprouser]

This show should be called 3 guys that are not getting laid tonight.

[osbornemccarty]

LOL...2 of us are married and one is engaged...keep telling yourself that.

[1800shit]

nice...born of osiris

[knatedogg07]

agreed with the last point, fighters definately want to have closure and having some "ifs" and "maybe's" in their losses/wins can definately give them the wrong impression of how good [or bad] they really are. very good point to lean on the dangerous side.

[AtlantaStoner420]

great idea, about having multiple referees.

[sneakyfuckinrussian]

great videos guys. but they would be even better if you could include relevant video clips while you are talking about the fights because they are not always accessible on youtube.

not sure if you cant do that for legal reasons or whatever but it would be cool.

[reefinit]

torres is a warrior cant wait to see him win his belt back ... redemption miguel

[Aramiak]

Yeah i think i would agree tbf. If i'm to put bias out of my brain. I think i don't like safety conscious mma cos every fighter fears that situation where your fine and all of a sudden you're out for TKO? It's never happened to me but it's a fear. Especially when your ground game is your weakness! I guess, the answer is implementing safety measures but for the sake of mixed martial artists... training referee's better too? To stop bad decisions bringing the sport down. But yeah, i agree with yuz

[kanguesso]

i am glad you clarified your previous point and i do know what you mean. but i was not just refering to safety in the sense of banning certain aspects of a martial art because that would actually qualify as SMA as you put it. i was mostly refering to safety in the sense of early stoppages, knees to downed opponent and so forth. you can implement safety that way without actually taking anything away from the dicipline itself, woudn't you agree?

[Aramiak]

If safety related rules ban any aspect of a martial art, you are no longer watching mma... you are watching sma (selective martial arts). I've had to drop entire disciplines from my training because rules ban the majority of its respective techniques. Safety might get it on tv, it might allow for mainstream audience... but it also stops it being Mixed Martial Arts. You took what i said i little more literally than intended! Of course brutality doesn't make mma, but it is integral to it.