VIDEO:A.Silva vs Yushin Okami

This is for those who never saw it.I would like to know ya'lls thoughts on it


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I have seen it, brutal kick from Silva. too bad it was illegal. If it was in the ufc he would have won by tko. Okami was DONE.

 

They used unified rules in that fight.What Silva did would of been illegal in the UFC also.

 

i remember joe rogan saying it would have been legal in the ufc.

 

nah....that wouldnt be legal...its still technically kicking a downed opponent...

Okami makes the most sense of the contenders in UFC right now...

After Silva beats him, it will be interesting to see if he goes down to fight GSP, or up to fight the winner of Rampage - Forrest

I honestly dont think GSP would beat him....I think on the other hand that Rampage or Forrest would just be too big

 

btw, funny seeing rude boy as the referee

 

wth is rude boy?

 

great kick

i think it should be legal

the point of the no kicking a down opponent rule is to avoid soccer kicks to the head or stomps to the face when one opponent is standing and the other is down

 

the dude from TUF

 

yes, I remember now. I thought he was an interesting character. :bears:

 

Why was it illegal? I don't get it, he just kicked him in the face.

 

but technically okami was a "downed opponent"....he's knees were on the canvas

 

if you get kicked in the face by a guy thats on his back that you have in guard then you probably deserved it because your an idiot

 

Well that's just silly, don't you think? I mean who was more "down" Silva or Okami?

 

Illegal or not, that was a great kick.

 

unbelievable to get that much power on a kick off your back.

 

I see what you are saying. However in my opinion , that rule should be voided if the person who got kicked was in the top position.

 

:dunno:

I dont care about it one way or another....it rarely impacts the fight

 

He broke the rules. He deserved the DQ, regardless of how cool the kick was.

 

you dont feel this is more to do with the letter of the law than the spirit of it?

 

Absolutely, but the rules are in place for a reason and Okami fought under the scope of them. Maybe he wasn't protecting himself from the possibility of that kick, because he understood it to be illegal?

What Im saying, is that you cannot possibly punish Okami for fighting within the rules and Anderson outside of them.

 

i agree, but it was an honest mistake (im guessing anyways)

perhaps a 5 minute rest period then restart the fight would have been better

 

Fair enough Tam, I didn't think of it like that.