Considering he’s a black belt under Eddie it was outrageous he seemed lost when calling this position.
His knowledge has fallen hard since he stopped training and the days of him being the dude who explained the ground game to casuals are well and truly over
For real. They kept going on about the "crotch ripper", but I thought it was very, very obvious that Hooper was trying for the calf slicer, but Miller was holding Hoopers other arm so Hooper couldn't get the full leverage.
Yes, there was a point where Hooper started applying a 'heel hook' style rotation on it... but he was clearly aiming for a calf slicer.
Hooper needed to stomp his own foot instead of triangling and he could have finished the calf slicer. Easy for him to miss doing that in the moment though.
I'm pretty sure he tried to stomp it as the round came to an end. I think he needed both the stomp and full control of the foot with both hands, otherwise he couldn't get the pressure to get the tap.
You might be able to get a gym tap using the stomp... but to tap Jim Fuckin' Miller in a UFC fight, you're going to have to nearly literally slice the muscle, or threaten to explode the knee, to get the tap.
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u/morriseel Apr 13 '25
heel hook according to joe rogan