none of that matters when a guy snaps his femur while doing a leg kick. go to the home page of the ufc to see the worst injury ever in mma history. this guy needs our support as much as the guys they where fighting for.

#2 might be the dumbest person on the internet.

Cofield come on give me a break. I'm 25 and if I were to step in there and break someone's arm and everyone knowing my jujitsu was dangerous I wouldn't be immature about it. I know my skills and that's what I used to win the fight not run over to Joe, tuck on his shirt "Hey I always wanted to do that" come on. Grow up this is the big leagues UFC not WEC.

"How many knees did Brandon Wolff need to take before a new ref was going to stop it? Apparently, there was no limit. Wolff was overmatched and had his face mashed in by Ben Saunders. Was it necessary to allow him to take 51 unanswered knees?"
He needed to take them until he fell to the ground. The last thing we need is to see another stoppage while both fighters are still on their feet(Slice vs Thompson??). That stoppage was just fine.

Hope somebody does the same thing to Cantwell. What a classless jacka$$. Send him back to WEC and let him be a bottom feeder or put him in the octagon with someone that has some skill and not just a fantastic afro.

I'm going to catch he!! for this one but I actually agree with Cofield (or he agrees with me due to my post under Maggies blog before this one was put out). Although, the Wolfe fight should not have been stopped earlier and the ref got that one right.

I agree with most of you for once and will say Cofield is a idiot. The time frame that arm bar took place in left no chance for the ref to stop the fight. How many times have guys gotten outta armbars or chokes that looked like they were locked in? Happens all the time.
Plain and simple its up to the fighter to tap! His other arm wasnt pinned or anything so he had no excuse not to tap. In prefight they said he had a TKD and BJJ background, so he should have been familiar with a armbar and versed in how to tap. He tried to be a tough guy and suffered the consequences.

I have to start this off by saying I don't regularly read Steve Cofield's blog. I saw a quote that someone posted on another MMA blog, citing this article as the source, and I can't believe this article is coming from someone other than a first-time viewer of mixed martial arts.
How many fellow MMA writers (including yourself) would jump all over Yamasaki if he had, as you have requested he should have done, stopped the fight due to the armbar BEFORE Al-Hassan tapped? My guess is most, if not all.
Even if Al-Hassan didn't deserve a shot in the UFC yet, the fact remains that he was 6-0 with four of those six wins coming by way of submission. Which tells me two things:
1. The most obvious. Al-Hassan has forced people to tapout. Thus, he knows the protocol for stopping a fight, and by association know how to do it himself. Pretty simple, pretty obvious.
and 2. With two-thirds of his wins being submissions, it is pretty safe to assume that he is well-versed in these submissions and should know when he himself is in a bad spot.
You CAN'T blame the referee for a fighter who isn't screaming in pain and isn't motioning for help (tapping). That is pure ignorance on both your part, and Razak Al-Hassan's.
As far as the Saunders-Wolff fight goes:
If you rewatch the the fight, the referee starts to stop it about a minute before the true finish, due to unanswered knees. However, Wolff broke the clinch (however momentarily) and showed no signs of "out on his feet" or anything of the sort. Not to mention the fact that Wolff was doing a pretty good (not great) job of defending (covering up) the intended target of the majority of those knees, which was his head.
Personally, I think you should just delete this particular entry from your blog because it honestly seems like you don't really know much about the sport. Furthermore, I don't understand why some of these MMA pundits are crying out due to the "level of violence" from last nights event. Last time I checked MMA is known as a combat sport. The word combat is also synonymous with the word violence. Pretty simple, pretty obvious.

Al-Hassan looked like he was about to break free of the armbar. Lots of guys try to fight their way out of it. Just look at Justin McCully or Royce Gracie for more evidence of that. To me, the officiating was worse in the Bruno-Rees fight.

Average dude's comment on the Hill broken leg: I had to go to youtube to watch it at first, but ufc posted the video on their site, so a lot of people will be seeing it soon, and more people will know about it. I tried to look for a post-fight from Hill, but couldn't find one. I think we'll see Hill again. Although that broken leg is definitely the most hainous I've seen, broken bones heal faster and require a lot less rehab than injuries like ACL, or other tendon tears. (He didn't break his femur, that's the upper leg. He broke the Tibia and Fibula)
On the Al-Hassan arm-bar: It's snap or tap!... and he chose poorly. Although Cantwell's post-fight was crude, Hassan had one chance to tap before he transitioned to try and roll out before Cantwell really pulled at his arm.

you tube link to corey hill on same card last night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwp_JwwGPhc

I'd like to file a missing persons report..Has anyone seen "Darkness" Or "D-rok" Lately???????Are you guys out there...
And hey Boys...What up with my hero Hughes???Huh??? what a stud out there being REAL with boys that got caught for real...That was AWSOME that means so much to those guys you have no idea..and you bag on him for a stupid shirt fopa...You should be ashamed....Hughes for president...

I agree w/rich

I'm not the most experienced viewer of mma but i agree with cofield on the saunders-wolff stoppage. getting clobbered by punches is one thing but knee after knee to a guy who couldn't even get out of the clinch can be deadly. when in the clinch knees are way more powerful and damaging than fists. all the info speeches about traumatic brain injury and then we see this guys head starting to look like a pizza when the cheese bubbles up.....dam. i know this is not a sport for cream puffs but the ref has to stop that about 10 knees earlier to ensure wolff fights again. i swear some fans are primal sometimes and want to see someone killed in the ring or octagon.

Yeah that Corey Hill break was probably the most gruesome thing I have ever seen in the octagon. It makes me wonder if this was not some kind of repeat break or if he has some kind of calcium deficencey or something that would cause his bones to be that brittle. Or maybe the fact that a dude who walks around probable somewhere around 190-200 that is cutting to 155 has something to do with it. either way it was sick.
The guy with the afro should have tapped he had to feel it and he was versed in BJJ so that is entirley on him. As for the post fight comment he was hyped it is not like he did anything incorrectly like he broke his arm after he tapped. He clearly had the dudes arm isolated and was pulling back if you do not want your arm broken that is when you tapp obviously Al Hassain did not think Cantwell would goa ll the way with it and break his arm and Cantwell called his bluff I do not have a problem with it at all.
Also, why would the ref stop a fight right there? Horrible call dude wish I could get paid to make assanine comments about a sport I barley understand and have never come even remotley close to competeing/training for.

can the refs do anything right? seriously im tired of reading Coefiled's amatuer hour columns, its time to go back to reading people who know stuff about MMA.( ive been covering MMA since 2002? yeah way to jump on the bandwagon Coefield)...its the responsibility of the fighter to tap and if it wasnt for Yamasaki the dudes arm would have been broke in half, he jumped in perfectly once he saw the arm bending back...as far as Wolff, he was just outmatched by a guy with a good muay tuay clinch just as good as spider silva and he was beat on, thats the sport, get it???
seriously so many crybabies on here and including Coefield..this is a contact sport, stuff happens, its part of the sport if you dont like it dont watch it, but i think the refs did a good job, as for Al Hassad and Wolff, thats a whole other story

Tard

THANKYOU THANKYOU VOICE of REASON...The guy was a total boner...And someone should have saved him from himself...

That would have been BEFORE he got into the cage...

There is a fine line between tapping and escaping. Al Hassan made a good attempt at getting out of that armbar and then got a dislocated elbow for his efforts. How was Mazaggatti supposed to know how close Cantwell was to snapping off his arm? Al Hassan didn't really show any pain during or after the snap, but I bet it hurts like hell today. MMA guys get choked unconscious all the time, but because this was visually upsetting, people are all up in arms about the UFC, the refs and the fighters. Last night was particularly vicious, in a sport that can be vicious - that doesn't make anyone but the haters question the validity of the sport and dedication of the fighters.

AdamG...... FYI Mazaggatti wasn't even the ref for that fight. Please retort.

CAGE...My bad...

Okay, I retort. I should have said "the ref" and for some reason though it was Mazagatti...
Anyways, fighters have amateur records before they become "professional fighters" and I'm sure that was the case for Al Hassan. Yes his ground game was poor and yes he should have tapped, but Joel Silva is a professional and wouldn't sign a guy to fight with zero business being in the UFC.

If you honestly believe that I have this little piece of heaven near a river I'd like to offer you...Not to be a prick But, you forgot to mention his stand up was poor, oh yea and his take down defense was poor..and so on and so on..Whatever...