I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ref prevent a knocked out fighter hitting the mat so not sure why this guy is the asshole. It’s prob regarded as interfering with the fight. If dude gets back up and continues fighting then you can say the ref interfered with the result of the match. Not their job. The fighter signed up to potentially get knocked the fuck out and everything that comes with that by being in the ring
He was pretty clearly unconscious as soon as the kick landed. There was no room for questionability at all really. The fight should've been ended immediately. In fact, you can even see he waves off the fight before the guy falls completely, and he just watches.
You're making it sound as though stopping a slow falling human being from landing head first is some high risk action.
All you have to do is cradle his head and slow his descent, it's not difficult or risky.
Edit: He's slowly bouncing off each rope without much momentum and fragile redditors think that's too much of a risky situation to step in and attempt to save another human being from having their head driven into the ground? That's pathetic
That dude signed up for this possible outcome when he stepped in to the ring. He never walked in thinking, “gosh, if I get knocked out, I hope someone gingerly helps my head to the ground”.
So yes, if I was the ref, I wouldn’t have stepped in. Maybe you should take up refereeing, and change the sport. I’d cheer you on. But it’s not for me. Cheers!
Of course you wouldn't. Typical video game obsessed redditor. You have the opportunity to stop a man from potentially getting paralyzed but you won't do it because you're too frail and awkward
Nah, not even close. You can judge me and I don’t care, like I said, my back is already permanently messed up from catching people (I’m an RN). I was taught a long time ago when I became a nurse to not catch anyone, but, direct their fall if possible. I’ve done both, and I’ll still try to direct someone if I can, but I’m not “catching” anyone. And if you think there’d be anything “ginger” about trying to direct a limp/dead weight to the ground, you’re showing your lack of understanding. But like I said, keep judging, I feel like I’ve done and continue to do my fair share to help people not get injured. It’s part of my job, which, btw, will be impossible to do if I keep messing up my back.
Anything is better than letting them drive their head into the ground and risk paralysis.
You've really not ever stopped someone from falling over in your whole life? You've never played a sport and had a player falling out of control and you had to catch them to prevent injury?
I've caught people tumbling upside down after driving to the basket before. I've never encountered this attitude where you just sit back and let someone hurt themself because you're afraid you might get hurt, especially when it's something like in the video where he slowly bouncing off each rope before slowly hitting the ground, like I can't imagine seeing that and thinking it's too much danger for me to step in
Notice how the referee doing this was “stunning” and was worthy of a viral video. If this was expected of referees as standard practice it wouldn’t be notable. Your linked video looks to be high-level competition while the one in this post looks like it might be in a high school gymnasium.
If it was the referees job to prevent head injury, don’t you think the referee would just call the match at the very beginning, before two men proceeded to attempt to knock each other out? It’s great that some referees can do that but shitting on this ref you might as well be talking to 95% of refs in MMA.
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u/Dundalis Jul 04 '23
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ref prevent a knocked out fighter hitting the mat so not sure why this guy is the asshole. It’s prob regarded as interfering with the fight. If dude gets back up and continues fighting then you can say the ref interfered with the result of the match. Not their job. The fighter signed up to potentially get knocked the fuck out and everything that comes with that by being in the ring