I was speaking for myself, not MMA at large, and I do not practice MMA.
I don't know what Batteti's injuries were, but Frye could have easily killed him with those knees if the fight continued and he decided to do it. I suspect that Batteti didn't tap due to some macho latin code of honor, the same kind of thing that got Helio Gracie's arm broken by Kimura.
That sh!t is just dumb to me. It's a sport, a game. And it still doesn't address the difference between MMA as a sport and MMA as a way to hurt someone until they can't move/breathe/whatever. We all saw John Marsh break whatsisname San Soo's arm. Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that after the break Marsh could've dragged his ass to a bridge and thrown him into the water to drown if he had a mind to?
All my fight strategy is based on deliberately injuring my opponents. -
Crippled Avenger
"It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever get near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propoganda visits...Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecendented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him."
First you get good, then you get fast, then you get good and fast.