I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that Ben Rothwell is not a fan of the oblique kick.
If this complaint sounds familiar, it's because the push kick to the planted knee is a tactic seen from other fighters at the Jackson's MMA camp in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That includes UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones, who helped Alistair Overeem prepare for his bout at UFC Fight Night 50 last weekend in Mashantucket, Connecticut (results).
And despite winning, Rothwell told Submission Radio he has a "Big" problem with the "dirty" tactic.
"I almost yelled at him in the fight. He was doing some real dirty push kicks to my knee, and it's just a dirty move. It's not honorable in my mind because this isn't street fighting. Like street fighting, if you're fighting in the street, I'm undefeated. And I will remain so, and if I'm not, it means I'm dead. If you want to fight like that, then I'm going to start. I'm gonna rip his eyes out, I'm gonna pull his jugular out with my teeth, and I'm gonna break things on him. I'm gonna start snapping fingers and it'll be a lot worse on him. And throwing push kicks at the knee joint is kinda like, to me it's the same dirty message. It's like you don't do that, and I almost said something to him during the fight like 'really?' like 'you're gonna play like that?' and I luckily ended him before he got to do it anymore."
Watch the video replay of their fight here.
Fellow mixed martial arts (MMA) veteran and former UFC 205-pound champion Quinton Jackson believes the oblique kick should be banned from competition (see why here) and called "Bones" one of the dirtiest fighters he's ever competed against.
How about it, fight fans, dirty move ... or just (painful) part of the game?
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Statistics: Posted by Kizzo — Sep 8. 2014, 22:12 — Replies 0 — Views 14
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