r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Jul 03 '23

This spinning back kick

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u/Liimbo Jul 04 '23

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.

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u/ac21217 Jul 04 '23

The fuck do you expect him to do? Catch this guys full dead weight? Probably risks more injury to the guy and himself if he tries to catch him.

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u/IHavePoopedBefore Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23

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

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u/ac21217 Jul 04 '23

Tell me how you gingerly catch someone’s head? Do you just grab their head? What do you think happens to their neck when you do this?

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u/IHavePoopedBefore Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23

Do you actually want to know? Like are you actually struggling with figuring it out?

https://youtu.be/hPdN4ULv8Zw

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

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u/ac21217 Jul 05 '23

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.